Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. As we grow older and wiser, we often consider how we might have done things differently in our youth. It’s crucial not to blame ourselves but rather to extract valuable lessons from those experiences. In this article, I share eight lessons I would give to my younger […]
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. As a Vietnamese refugee, Lan Phan, founder of Community of Seven, knew that education would change her life. Her mother was a hairdresser who never made more than $15,000 yearly in Inglewood, California. She supported Phan, her two brothers and her father, who couldn’t work due to […]
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In the wake of the sudden closure of Chicago’s Foxtrot and Dom’s Kitchen & Market (parent company Outfox Hospitality), the story of how it unfolded serves as a powerful lesson for executives on the importance of communication during a crisis. This scenario played out in real-time at […]
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In 2009, Tata Motors, one of India’s leading automobile companies, launched Nano, a car priced at about $2500 (or INR 100,000), around half the cost of its nearest rival. It was known as the “world’s cheapest car.” The company’s website crashed because it received over 40 million […]
You’d expect big-budget brands to sidestep marketing advice fails, especially as the global ad spending hovers around $1 trillion for the first time in 2024. But just because you’re spending hundreds of millions or more on reach doesn’t mean you’re delivering a billion-dollar strategy. Most importantly, you don’t need a multi-million-dollar ad budget to create […]
I never thought I’d own a business. I also never thought I’d be able to make a living from writing. Yet here I am, with a (small) content marketing agency, selling services to companies, including series A startups and tech enterprises, and making a six-figure dollar income each year. All this because I stumbled onto […]
Taking on the challenge of rebranding your business can end up being a hit or a miss, depending on how you go about it. It requires time and thought to get it right, and not all companies succeed. Just look at the extreme rebranding of Twitter recently. Is it a success, or will it be […]
If you look up Matt Ragland’s name in the Buffer blog search bar, you’ll come across this article from over a decade ago – when Matt still referred to himself as an “aspiring blogger.” The term doesn’t apply now, as Matt has grown in leaps and bounds. Matt’s come a long way since that article, […]
When Aprilynne Alter started her YouTube channel in 2021, she didn’t expect it to grow the way it did. Her content about learning how NFTs work and documenting her progress in creating them attracted an audience of more than 22,000 subscribers. In the process, she learned how to grow on YouTube and gained an appreciation […]
That’s why it’s so important to recognize these signs as a leader—and nip them in the bud. “We have a very hyper-successful culture at IWT where nobody wants to disappoint anybody else,” Gretchen explains. “So I have to remind people that, while it’s not necessarily okay to just randomly miss a deadline, it is perfectly […]