“My business may be small, but my story isn’t.” So says the tagline to Google’s “My Business Story” contest. It gives small business owners a chance to not only advertise their business, but also to explore their creative side. Google partnered with American Express to urge entrepreneurs to shoot a video telling the story of how they started their businesses and how they are doing today. Using a digital camera, anyone can upload their clips [...]

“Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune,” said Jim Rohn, famed entrepreneur and business speaker. The “Get Motivated” seminars can provide these two types of education to help businesspeople across America. Get Motivated is a series of lectures taking place in different cities, featuring first-rate speakers like former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani, comedian Bill Cosby, General Colin Powell, and famed quarterback Joe Montana, to name a [...]

After a long battle with pancreatic cancer, Apple co-creator Steve Jobs passed away on October 5th, 2011. He was 56 years old, and one of the most notorious entrepreneurs in the world. The life of Steve Jobs is the blueprint for the self-made businessman. He built Apple from the ground up, starting out the company’s operations out of a garage with co-founder Steve Wozniak in Los Altos, CA. They soon built “the first mass marketed [...]

A top level domain (or TDL) is what you see at the end of every Web address, such as .com, .net, .org, and .edu. These have been the golden standard for the last decade, but it could all change if the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) changes its domain name policy. The organization has approved a change that will allow users to change URL suffixes (TLD) to say practically anything. So if [...]

Although Oprah’s show is going off the air soon, her influence as a publicity generator still remains. MSNBC published an interesting story today, detailing how the queen of daytime TV could give a small business priceless publicity by introducing her fans to various products. One of the examples given is a small company in East Texas, specializing in selling smoked turkey. The company, employing about a dozen full-time employees, received a call from Oprah herself, [...]