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SnapChat vs Facebook – A $3 Billion Mistake?

SnapChat vs Facebook - A $3 Billion Mistake?

There has been a lot of noise lately as to Snapchat’s decision to turn down $3 Billion dollars from Facebook, and if indeed it was the right move. While $3 Billion dollars may seem like a lot of money, especially to those looking from the outside in, it perhaps is not as big as an offering as it may seem…

What is an Entrepreneur?

What is an Entrepreneur?

I’ve been an entrepreneur since before it was cool – long before Mark Zuckerberg and a generation of seemingly instant billionaires hijacked the term and forever sexualized a pursuit most entrepreneurs know to be anything but sexy. I grew up in a family of entrepreneurs, where Sundays were spent preparing for the work week to come, not on football and…

10 Lessons After 8 Years of Internet Marketing

10 Lessons After 8 Years of Internet Marketing

  These days, it seems just about everyone from Gen Y has a website they call their own. Most exist as  personal journals, others more for documenting  hobbies, and others solely use their website for business. You could call Secret Entourage a website, others might call it a publication, but ultimately it still is a business at the end of…

4 Tips on How to Find a Mentor

4 Tips on How to Find a Mentor

  Since we always promote the importance of mentorship and why finding like minded people who have been there is an important factor in one’s success, here are a few tips on how to find, identify, and reach out to people for mentorship. Remember that very rarely will people take on someone random who reaches out but many very well…

I Want to Quit My Job – 5 Hints its Time to Quit Your Day Job

I Want to Quit My Job - 5 Hints its Time to Quit Your Day Job

Contrary to what many believe, working for someone else is not that bad. Its simply a choice that you are limiting your growth to what others deem possible, rather than your own belief. While working for others may be limiting in growth, there are advantages like structured schedules, structured pay, and benefits. There is, however, a time in everyone’s life…