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Digital Marketing for Doctors, Lawyers through Startup CompeteLeap

This interview with entrepreneur Ryan Draving, Founder of CompeteLeap, took place in August, 2012. Cheap Revolution founder Skip Shuda and Ryan worked together previously together at Philly Marketing Labs, a digital marketing agency. 

 

What Is A Value Proposition?

We often make daily business transactions without taking a closer look at what transpired. For instance, think about a past  meeting with a potential client. What did you expect to happen? Did the meeting go by the book? How did the potential client act? What did he or she want from you? If all goes according to your plan, value proposition will be discussed, but you may have never even noticed it.

The Fools Gold of Entrepreneurs: "I Don't Have Any Competition"

As we deal with  young entrepreneurs, we often have the tendency to criticize what they may or may not be doing correctly. Competition is a topic that is often overlooked among these individuals.

It's not that they ignore competition, but they look at the topic in the wrong perspective. Competition is something your business must have, not something you don't want.

Posts You May Have Missed Last Week: Incentives for a Positive Work Environment and Oldies But Goodies

Life sometimes prevents us from enjoying ourpleasures. And by pleasures, we mean Cheap Revolution. 

Just in case you missed our top posts from last week, we compiled them into a short list for your convenience:

3 Incentives for a Positive Work Environment

We often try to provide our employees with incentives to motivate them, which we hope will provide our business with positive results. Thephilosophy, of course, is that wemust keep our employees happy in order to run a successful business. If our employees view us as the boss without a heart, they will be more likely torebel or be careless.

Oldies But Goodies: 25 Nearly Free Ways to Market your Business

Just because a post isn't fresh, it does not mean it is not filled with useful information. We want to refresh you with our most popular posts to provide you with our best work. If other readers found a post helpful, you may also find the post useful.

One of our top posts is titled 25 Nearly Free Ways to Market Your Business.

In this particular post, we provide  you with ideas around marketing your business for almost nothing.

Posts You May Have Missed Last Week: Young Entrepreneur Steven Courtney and 20 Ways to Close A Business Letter

Life sometimes prevents us from enjoying ourpleasures. And by pleasures, we mean Cheap Revolution. 

Just in case you missed our top posts from last week, we compiled them into a short list for your convenience:

20 Ways to Close A Business Letter

More often than not, we write some sort of formal communication each week. Whether that be in form of a typed letter or an email, we are constantly writing to a prospective client or to another business. Even though the bulk of our letters are standard, our chance to be creative is in the way we close our letters.

Free White Paper: "Social Mobile User Engagement" by Virtue

According to eMarketer, by the year 2016, the growth of mobile social network users is expected to reach 1.7 billion users, a 210% increase from 2011. Marketers need to be aware of this growth and begin to build a strong foundation for an effective mobile social engagement strategy now. In this whitepaper, Virture explores how mobile users are connecting with brands on Facebook.

Young Entrepreneur Steven Courtney Provides Insight On Networking

Steven Courtney began working in restaurants at age 14 and fell in love with food. Due to his fascination, he quickly moved through the ranks at several restaurants. Steven understood that he wanted something bigger then restaurants, which is how he discovered a new and different career : food science.

After graduating, he was hired at Campbell Soup Company. It was here where Steven was introduced to an entirely new world and quickly became fascinated with how everything worked in corporate America. Steven began to think bigger and started his own company. He began joining organizations, reading, researching, brainstorming, sitting in on lectures, networking, and attending entrepreneur events.

Steven is surrounding himself with, and learning from, the smartest and most talented entrepreneurs in Philadelphia. Steven is very interested in networking and believes that the lessons he's learned from others are priceless. Steven is currently working on an exciting new idea in which he plans to disrupt the social world.

Top Entrepreneurs on Twitter: Seth Godin

Each week, we will seek to provide you with one entrepreneur who can be considered to be a must follow on Twitter. We will base our selections on inspirational entrepreneurs who provide valuable insight, as well as content for our readers. 

 We encourage you to follow our reccommended entrepreneurs on Twitter, so that you absorb various viewpoints and opinions. By using Twitter, you enable yourself to consume an endless database of knowledge.

This week's top entrepreneur: Seth Godin.

4 Ways to Promote Your Business Online in 2012

Promoting your business has been easier than ever. Instead of wasting money with print advertising, the Internet enables us to take advantage of money saving alternatives. 

Do you own a website? How many social media channels is your business currently involved in? Does your business have a blog that is frequently updated?

All of these alternatives are essential to businesses in 2012, however, many may not be taking advantage of these cost saving solutions.