The UC Berkeley Entreprenuership Blog
AM Beat Wire is our social bookmarking website for business news targeted towards entrepreneurs and marketers. Every day users submit links and vote on dozens of business/entrepreneurship related stories from around the web and the most popular stories are displayed on the front page. Every week, we highlight a few of the most popular links from the Wire here.
Anytime sales are low, it is the entrepreneur’s natural instinct to find creative ways to boost sales. When all else fails, small business owners are often faced with the choice of bearing the cost of decreased sales until consumer shopping picks up again, or cut prices to incentivize sales.
AM Beat Wire is our social bookmarking website for business news targeted towards entrepreneurs and marketers. Every day users submit links and vote on dozens of business/entrepreneurship related stories from around the web and the most popular stories are displayed on the front page. Every week, we highlight a few of the most popular links from the Wire here.
An increasing number of social media websites are finding that the only real way to structure advertisements so that they have any significant ROI for sponsors is to integrate them into the social nature of the website itself. StumbleUpon did this through the use of “paid stumbles” where they charged $.05 a visitor from the StumbleUpon toolbar and Digg rolled out a similar program soon after showcasing “sponsored stories” amongst the other submissions on the home page.
My number one rule of networking: don’t sell. Or at least, don’t blatantly sell. I can’t tell you how many times I have seen someone approach a well known figure in the industry they have never met and the first thing they try to do is sell the established individual on a product or idea
AM Beat Wire is our social bookmarking website for business news targeted towards entrepreneurs and marketers. Every day users submit links and vote on dozens of business/entrepreneurship related stories from around the web and the most popular stories are displayed on the front page. Every week, we highlight a few of the most popular links from the Wire here.
Below I have a series of three very well created sports-related advertisements for Big Babol Gum. The ads artistically demonstrate the “chewiness” and “stretchability” of the gum. Of the three, I feel that the basketball one is the most effective. Which is your favorite?
I just have one question for every entrepreneur or freelancer who deals with corporate or repeat clients, does your client see you as cost of doing business, just another line on their expense reports, or as a long-term investment? Based on your answer to this question for every client you are currently working with and any client who approaches you in the future, who should you be focusing on?
I recently wrote a guest post for Small Business Opportunities about the importance of focusing on one aspect of your business instead of trying to do everything for everyone all at once. The full post can be read here but I have pasted a short excerpt below.
“I think one problem area that a lot of [...]
AM Beat Wire is our social bookmarking website for business news targeted towards entrepreneurs and marketers. Every day users submit links and vote on dozens of business/entrepreneurship related stories from around the web and the most popular stories are displayed on the front page. Every week, we highlight a few of the most popular links from the Wire here.
AM Beat is a blog written by Aditya Mahesh, a young entrepreneur and freshman at UC Berkeley who runs ZapPrep, a college admissions consulting business. This blog covers marketing, technology, and finance.
