Category: Money

Growth hacks are clever marketing tricks used by startups in order to get more users (often for free or very little cost). Sometimes they are simple, sometimes they are quite technical – but what they have in common is that they can be highly effective. Here are five of the most famous growth hacks of all time.

Think it's impossible to feed your family on a grocery budget -- toiletries and cleaning supplies included -- of just $200 a month? Think again! Here are some tips on how you and your family can significantly cut your spending.

The powerful speech pause might be the most important public speaking technique you will ever learn. This secret is something that I’ve used for many years. Dramatic pauses are so powerful that they should be illegal.

I came up with these five strategies to get back in touch with my employees, no matter how busy things became.

As is true with most of the world's richest people, much of his wealth may be attributed to mindset.

Even though this is easier said than done, the things that you have to do to become the next millionaire are theoretically fairly easy.

I once bought a rug. It was pretty, it was on sale, and I said what the heck, it’s only $20, and took it home and put it on my floor. Days later, I bought new pillows; the old ones didn’t match the rug. Before I knew it, I’d also bought new plants, a chair, and a ton of other accessories. That $20 spiraled into hundreds of dollars worth of new stuff. This is the Diderot Effect in action.

Making an impressively designed resume from scratch may be a bit of a challenge, especially if you don’t do design for a living. But if you want to give your resume a visually stimulating edge, grab any of these resume templates below.

The rigors of entrepreneurship demand sacrifices, and if you don't make those sacrifices you'll never be able to succeed. Business is, at its core, a give-and-take process. The more you invest, and the more you're willing to part with, the more you'll reap in rewards in kind.

From Richard Branson and Apple’s Angela Ahrendts to Shark Tank’s Robert Herjavec and Warby Parker’s Neil Blumenthal, 50+ Influencers reveal how to get through their doors — and what it takes to succeed once you’re in.

How much can hard work in school and when applying for scholarships reduce the overall costs of getting a college degree? Well, in our family’s experience, it’s amounted to nearly $150,000 so far. (I say that because we have two more children to put through college.)

Actually, design can prove to be much more important for your fledgling business than you may imagine. When you run an online business, visitors’ judgements of it always depend on tiny details in your design.

Then Jobs said, "This is how I do it. I take a sheet of paper, and I say, 'If my company can only do one thing next year, what is it?' Literally, we shut everything else down."

“Many of the lessons I learned from Larry still guide me today,” he wrote.

Want to get hired? Here’s what to say—and what not to say—in response to one of the most common questions employers ask potential employees.

Once in a while, it is healthy to doubt yourself, to ooze a tiny bit of self-awareness. But a new psychology study from Ohio State University found evidence that an individual's career paths is influenced by their own levels of self-confidence and, to some degree, the amount of social validation they receive along the way.

Recently I wrote a general overview, similarly titled, of the steps someone can put in place to lay the foundation for an automated business that might give you the ability to create seven-figure revenues, without the need for employees.

Want to be remarkably successful? Want to get really rich? (While there are many ways to feel "rich," in this case we're talking about monetary wealth.) Then check out this little gem of an investment opportunity.

Whether tapping traditional funding sources or conducting online crowdfunding rounds, founders face a huge challenge when raising capital. Even highly active growth investors are hard to reach and harder to close.

Just under a couple of weeks ago I took my son Sam to Clarks to get his annual check up and new school shoes. As it was a Sunday just before the summer holidays, the shop was packed and, on top of that, it turned out he needed 3 different pairs of shoes. All went well – we had a friendly (patient) and helpful shop assistant – and we soon left the shop with all the footwear needed for the coming term. But what has this got to do with social customer service and, more importantly, Transformers?

Essie Weingarten's iconic and eponymous nail polish brand grew from 12 shades to more than 900 over the course of 34 years. But it wasn't easy. "Everyone thinks Rome was built in a day, and it wasn't," she tells Entrepreneur.

Offline marketing techniques are slipping down the ranks in a world that relies on an increasingly digital focus. However, according to ecoconsultancy.com, 40 per cent of consumers make their buying decision after being influenced offline. Evidently, it pays for businesses to reach out in the offline world…

In the 1957 DeWitt Clinton High School yearbook, Ralph Lauren wrote "millionaire" as one of his life goals.

As far as wealth creation goes, Dan has been referred to as the man with the “Midas Touch”. He has mentored CEOs, Olympians and World Champions, PhD holders, to members of the clergy, spiritualists and even idiots – it makes no difference. Dan’s method can take anyone with a dream and the passion and make them successful.

It can be a beautifully elegant model.

We persistently underestimate our influence.

Building wealth is about more than just hitting a number. It’s also about cultivating the habits of mind that make saving second nature—or at least a whole lot less painful. But as anyone who’s ever tried to get in shape can tell you, changing behavior isn’t easy. Sometimes you need a clever “cheat” to help you on your way. So here are 9 mental tricks that can speed you on the path to financial security.

Around 12 years ago, I made a decision that forever changed my relationship to money: Instead of spending every $5 bill that passed through my hands, I started saving them.

For decades — in article after article, book after book — business and motivational writers have urged you to take more initiative in your work.

Dave Ramsey is a financial guru to many people. His advice has helped millions get free from crushing debt. This is a good thing for those folks struggling to get by. Unfortunately, Mr. Ramsey, like many of his financial advisor colleagues, is a little too uptight about letting you buy a new car.

Two of the most powerful words in the English language are “free” and “sex”. While the latter is a bit racy, the former presents an opportunity all brands should capitalize on.

Facebook has the potential to be a great source of web traffic for your business that can increase brand awareness and generate leads. If you have the extra change in your pocket, start investing $10 per week onto this social channel; otherwise, nobody will see your masterpiece! Below are 10 reasons why you should start shelling out $10 per week for Facebook advertising.

A friend of mine recently left Tesla, the renowned electric car maker, saying, “It was incredible,” but “I’d never work there again.”

A practical guide to minimizing risk and maximizing success while living the entrepreneurial dream.

Investing is the most important element of our financial future — but sometimes it takes a while before we really get it, so to speak. Fortunately, I think it’s fair to say most of the readers here at Get Rich Slowly get it. But I’m willing to bet that there are still a few who might get the concept but have yet to put it into action.

The best managers hire smart people to work for them. But what if your direct reports are smarter than you? How do you manage people who have more experience or more knowledge? How do you coach them if you don’t have the same level of expertise?

Every day life is a negotiation. I’m not talking in this post about the every day negotiations although the same rules apply. I’m talking about negotiations where careers and money and reputations and maybe love is at stake.

Building wealth is simple. Not easy, but simple. We'd all like to make more money, but if your long term prize is financial independence, there aren't any shortcuts. There are only these four basic rules.

The reality is that most investors see many more deals than they invest in. Using the ultimate pitch will help you save time and grab an investor’s attention. Your first pitch is likely to be virtual and in the form of a PowerPoint. The key is to keep it simple (no more than 10-15 slides), tell a great, engaging story and hit on the key questions every investor wants answered.

Today, the ‘secret’ to SEO is no secret at all. It’s common sense. Brands that rank high on search engines have great content, address their target audience’s search intent, and take the time to optimize their sites from a technology standpoint. Here are 9 SEO ‘secrets’ that will lead your brand to awesome.

The smallest of tweaks or a change of color can make all the difference between a good design and a great one. This may be especially true for web design. While we might tend to focus on the large photo headers or nice typography in a design, there’s much more going on than just the aesthetics. There are people who spend a lot of time studying and testing how users interact with websites — where their eyes travel first, what they click on, how much time they spend on certain pages.

Eleven entrepreneurs from Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) share the tasks they delegate to their employees so they can focus more closely on their business.

Self-made millionaire Steve Siebold, who has interviewed 1,200 of the world's wealthiest people during the past three decades, agrees. As backwards as it sounds, getting rich often has less to do with the money than the mentality, he writes in his book "How Rich People Think." Here are 21 mindsets of the wealthy that you could adopt today...

But if I had to pick one habit that has really changed everything for me, I would have to say it is this: being able to reverse-engineer the finish line of my career in real time.

When I first began to right my financial ship, one of the initial things I did was to sell off a lot of items that were taking up space in my closet. I tried many different techniques for selling them off. Here are some of the most important things I discovered.

Over time, I have gleaned a lot of information about personal finance from a number of sources: Martin Hawes, Money magazine, various bloggers, and my own parents (not that I always listened, but they are actually quite clever). It’s taken me a while to finally synthesize and accept these 10 financial truths — and implementing them has meant huge benefits, in terms of quality of life and financial health.

From assigning tasks to dealing with turbulence...

My guest today popularized secular evangelism in 1983 when he worked with the Macintosh Division of Apple. He is currently the chief evangelist of Canva, an online and easy to use graphic design platform.

As a child, Larry Ellison's adoptive father repeatedly told him that he was good for nothing. The tech entrepreneur has proven him wrong.