As we might have already known, Korean entertainment has gone global. It’s a phenomenon much talk about in the media, and I would like to take this opportunity to highlight what small business owners – wherever they are – can learn from at least two of many niches in Korean entertainment industry: Reality Shows and K-pop.
Okay, I wasn’t a fan of Korean entertainment, but my wife has got me to listen to K-pop and watch Korean drama. I never really like Korean drama, but I did watch some, anyway.…
In most developed countries, being a business owner or aspiring entrepreneur has become as hard as it has been for several years. The impact of the global downturn which started back in 2008 is still being felt today, as millions of people struggle to find long-term stable employment, while consumer demand in the US and Western Europe hasn’t reached pre-downturn levels yet.
When you factor in rising costs of energy, communications and, for the manufacturing sector in particular, several raw materials, being a business owner doesn’t seem quite so glamorous now, does it?…
I’ve been on online business for 5 years and from all those years I learn nothing about business networking. Not until last year I finally concluded that in order to succeed, I need to connect with like-minded people.
Okay – will you believe me if I told you that I never really use Facebook until last year? Even today, I still think Facebook as a waste of time, but whether I like it or not, I need to jump on the bandwagon and start using Facebook – at least for my business purposes.…
Online ads. Whether you like it or not, they are major source of income for both web publishers and ad agencies. And whether you like it or not, businesses often need to use ads in order to reach out to their target market – and grow their sales.
Unfortunately, there are too many unrelated ads being served on various medium today. Too unrelated, in such a way that site visitors are annoyed by them and advertisers waste too much money promoting their products and services to people who don’t want to check them out, let alone buy them.…
The worst possible way to jeopardize your entrepreneurial career is to hang on a dying business, which suck the life out your financial resources. How can I be so sure about this? Well, read on…
Let me tell you my favorite entrepreneurial true story.
There is a guy with a simple but big dream: His dream was to become an entrepreneur and be financially independent to retire early.
Of many possible entrepreneurial paths, he chose franchising for 2 major reasons: Firstly, he didn’t have any entrepreneurial experience.…
Sir Richard Branson has been one of my role models for years. His flamboyant personality, can-do attitude and outside-the-box thinking inspires me in my entrepreneurial journey in one way or another. I love the way he raises his kids, in such a way that they kept grounded even though they can do anything with their father’s wealth. I love how he creates a fun working environment at Virgin.
Well, if you don’t know who Richard Branson is, here is one sentence that can pretty much describe who he is: Sir Richard Branson is a British entrepreneur who founded Virgin Group, a holding company of over 400 companies.…
I manage and run several business websites. One of them is a business blog in cloud computing niche. As you might already known, cloud computing is a rising trend, and as more companies adopted it, the more important it will become in the future. In fact, this is the very reason why I started the blog.
Probably you’ve guessed right, but to set the record straight: I’m not a cloud computing expert. I do have an interest in cloud computing and I do use cloud-based services (in fact, my business runs in the cloud.)…
Okay, business blog owners: This might pop up in your mind a bit too often: How can I make money from my blog? The answers are largely typical: Placing ads, promoting affiliate programs, doing sponsored posts, etc. But one question remains unanswered: How to get brands to place their ads or order a sponsored post on your business blog?
Instead of answering the above questions with my limited knowledge, why don’t we tap the answer from the experts who have done the very thing – and succeed?…
Okay – I’m impressed. Many are impressed. Finally, the future which we can only dream of when watching Mission Impossible is here, today.
Google Glass, although still a prototype and you had to compete with thousands other to get one and try it yourself (application for this has been closed, by the way…,) the conversation has started to heat up.
…and the hype is also fueled by the media, which buzz the high-tech glasses: Google Glass for adult entertainment; the now dropped potentially-privacy-buster facial recognition capabilities; the many uses of Google Glass – including healthcare, commerce and humanitarian – to name a few.…
The media – TV, film and online, haven’t been seen as integral to the UK’s overall economic performance, but the creative industries do seem to bring some financial benefits. Well over 100,000 people work in old and new media – newspapers, TV stations, creative agencies, film studios and even social media sites are all major employers.
Auntie gives generously
As the oldest broadcasting institution in the UK, the BBC has become a reliable source of information and entertainment, whatever some people think of their recent output.…
