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Automated Business – What Entrepreneurs Should Build

If you followed my Noobpreneur.com regularly, you might notice that I haven’t post anything for three days. What gives? You might guess I’m being lazy, but I’m not. I was… Read more »

Why Googol Rules

Ivan Widjaya15 years ago

Googol, representing a numeric one with 100 number of zeros after it, rules in today’s Internet. Googol? What’s Googol? Why is it significant? The ‘ruler’ of Internet world – Google.… Read more »

Franchise agreement: From a Noobpreneur Point of View

Ivan Widjaya15 years ago

Franchising is about getting the right business at the right location, right? Wrong! It’s about the franchisee agreement and the ability to stick to it. Therefore, franchising is not for… Read more »

Managing Your Business Good Will

Ivan Widjaya15 years ago

No, I’m not talking about good will in literal meaning. It’s related to business valuation – Good will is the intangible value of a business, such as reputation, image and… Read more »

Resilient Entrepreneur – How to Become One

Ivan Widjaya15 years ago

Resilience, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change. Resilient entrepreneur is those that own ‘super human’ will power to… Read more »

Franchisor Insider Story: Why Franchising is Difficult yet Necessary in Growing Your Business

Ivan Widjaya15 years ago

I’ve post a few on franchising – mostly from the eye of a franchisee. This time, I present you a story from the franchisor side. A story from the CEO… Read more »

Purchase a Franchise or Starting Up Your Own Business?

Ivan Widjaya15 years ago

Most people ask, “are buying a franchise unit will make you rich?” My sole answer, “No – You WON’T.” Why? Am I bitter toward franchising? No – I am a… Read more »

How to Navigate Your Business in the Midst of Recession

Ivan Widjaya15 years ago

To most small businesses, recession hits hard. That includes my business. What gives? I can’t guess any culprits other than the soaring prices and the lower buying power of consumers.… Read more »

Intermediaries – Made Obsolete by the Internet?

Ivan Widjaya15 years ago

Intermediaries is what middlemen do – You bridge between clients or consumers and providers or producers. You make money by leveraging capital and margin – you buy a widget at… Read more »

Paranoia Marketing

Ivan Widjaya15 years ago

Here I coined a new phrase for you – Paranoia Marketing :) What is Paranoia Marketing? Paranoia marketing simply means marketing to the paranoids. Paranoid of what? Many things that… Read more »