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by Shawn Hessinger on October 7, 2008
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HELP!
I've placed my question about pricing for PostRanger.com sponsor posts on both the Innovation and Entrepreneurship and On Startups groups on Li...
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by Shawn Hessinger on September 18, 2008
A thought has been occurring to me recently, to the point where I have taken the next logical step in exploring a very...er...unbootstrapper-like???...possibility.
But is it really?
Here's the ...
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by Shawn Hessinger on September 7, 2008
I'm looking for bootstrappers and other BootStrapMe.com readers to join my Linkedin network.
I'm hoping to discuss projects and opportunities with others in the network coming up soon includ...
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by Shawn Hessinger on September 6, 2008
So now it's your turn.
Tell us about your bootstrap venture and let us add it to our list of profiles here at BootStrapMe.com.
Some of the things we'd like to know:
• How much did you spen...
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by Shawn Hessinger on July 26, 2008
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Moms of young children may do it to spend more time with their families.
Some workers may prefer it as a life-style choice allowing more time for famil...
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by Shawn Hessinger on July 4, 2008
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Michael McKay, MJM Consulting, in Ontario insists lack of outside funding hasn't done much to slow Canadian entrepreneurship.
In a recent post on ...
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by Shawn Hessinger on March 16, 2008
Besides Ben Yoskovitz's excellent suggestions for building a media empire, I've suggested before and will take this opportunity to say again that news remains high on the priority list no mat...
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by Shawn Hessinger on February 18, 2008
In her instructional manual "Too Good to be Threw", Kate Holmes, Sarasota, FL, outlines the basics of bootstrapping a successful thrift shop, something she herself did in 1975 when fired fr...
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by Shawn Hessinger on February 12, 2008
Bootstrap the traffic on your business website or blog with link karma from our new MySpace group for bootstrap entrepreneurs.
I put together the new MySpace Group "Bootstrap your business toda...
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by Shawn Hessinger on February 11, 2008
In the up coming comedy "Be Kind Rewind" actors Jack Black and Mos Def portray friends who create their own versions of hit movies after they accidentally erase the entire inventory of a lo...
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by Shawn Hessinger on February 10, 2008
In a question posted to LinkedIn Answers, entrepreneur and consultant Stephen Dunham asks:
How do you build a social networking site from zero? Can it be bootstrapped?
It's a question I myself ...
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by Shawn Hessinger on February 9, 2008
The title of this post was inspired by the famous Alfred Hitchcock film "Dial 'M' for Murder", but the post itself was inspired by an article by T.J. Byers in Mother Earth News abou...
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by Shawn Hessinger on February 7, 2008
The next post in our series on great bootstrap ideas you can start almost immediately involves making money off something you already have-a blog.
Yes, those personal journals, no matter what the su...
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by Shawn Hessinger on February 4, 2008
Continued from yesterday's post February 3, 2008
So to continue our two part post on bootstrapping a newspaper, once you've created an on line site with a targeted area of coverage and begun...
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by Shawn Hessinger on February 3, 2008
So you want to start a newspaper.
Whether your goal is a small community weekly, a large metro daily, an alternative paper or magazine or something else that defies any of the established categories...
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by Shawn Hessinger on February 2, 2008
A rural ice delivery business is an unusual bootstrapping opportunity suggested by entrepreneur William L. Stewart in this article from Mother Earth News.
The link is a unique edition to our series ...
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by Shawn Hessinger on January 26, 2008
As most of you probably already know, the Seattle-based coffee chain has felt the slump in the economy recently and is testing $1 coffee and free refills to compete with lower priced competitors.
As...
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by Shawn Hessinger on December 19, 2007
Just a few days after publishing the post on my departure from the old R&H it has become the most popular on the website. Wow! Who would have thought?
And after just two days at the new gig (I&#...
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by Shawn Hessinger on November 26, 2007
Some interest has already begun over my post asking bootstrapping entrepreneurs to share their success stories here at BootStrapMe.com.
I'm hoping to have some great guest posts soon and of cour...
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by Shawn Hessinger on November 19, 2007
Hi. I'm Shawn Hessinger, editor here at BootStrapMe.com on the Creative Weblogging Network.
Are you a bootstrapping entrepreneur? Have you successfully bootstrapped a company from startup to pro...
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by Shawn Hessinger on November 18, 2007
As mentioned previously here at BootStrapMe.com, social networking can be an important resource for the bootstrapping on line entrepreneur as a method of marketing with little or no cost.
Of course,...
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by Shawn Hessinger on November 9, 2007
Just signed up for the beta of a new person-to-person trading exchange called Aroxo, a bootstrapped enterprise by entrepreneur Matt Rogers.
Here's more on Matt's own recipe for bootstrapping...
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by Shawn Hessinger on October 21, 2007
The Zillion Business Marketing blog has these suggestions for home-based internet startups requiring little or no initial investment.
Be sure to pick one that matches your abilities:
1. Affiliate ...
