November is National Entrepreneurship Month, and there are gobs of events (a bonafide bevy) that honor entrepreneurs and innovators, right here in Arkansas. Global Entrepreneurship Week hosts quite a few, and that runs November 17-23. But the celebration of entrepreneurship can’t be contained in just a week. Here are 10 more opportunities to inspire and aspire this month. 1. Women Founders This group is open to anyone, especially women and girls interested in discussing issues for women in entrepreneurship and leadership. We want to encourage more women to create startups and take a leadership role in the tech/entrepreneurial community. 2. 1 Million Cups Little Rock Each week, the 1 Million Cups program offers two local entrepreneurs an opportunity to present their startups to a diverse audience of mentors, advisors, and entrepreneurs. Presenters prepare a 6 minute educational presentation and engage in 20 minutes of feedback and questioning after they present. Entrepreneurs gain insight into possible ways they can improve their businesses, gather realtime feedback, connect with a community that truly cares about their progress, and walk away feeling like they have advanced their business. The audience also learns a great deal from the presentations. Whether this is through passively listening or deeply engaging with the entrepreneurs, there is much to learn every week from these dynamic and diverse communities. The event is free. Coffee is included. 3. Starting a Business in Arkansas This seminar prepares participants for the intensive business planning process, identifies major steps crucial to starting a business, discusses key issues that affect your business success, start-up requirements and common pitfalls you will face as an entrepreneur. 4. Become an entrepreneur! Find inspiration! Watch the animated sketchbook video by Jonathan Ortmans, president of Global Entrepreneurship Week, and learn why millions of people celebrate it each November. 5. Support: Small Business Saturday, November 29 It’s a long, tough road from startup to sustainable business. Show local businesses that you have the moxy to stick around and support them through the journey when you choose local, independent shops over the big box on Sat., Nov. 29. 6. Take 5 minutes and vote YES for National Entrepreneurs’ Day! Support establishing a National Entrepreneurs’ Day and let Congress know. Vote YES 7. Support Women’s Entrepreneurship Day November 19th is the day to celebrate, engage and empower female entrepreneurs. Visithttps://www.facebook.com/WomensEntrepreneurship and https://twitter.com/Womenseday to follow celebrations held around the world. 8. Share your story. Leave your breadcrumbs of inspiration and share your story at info@Arksourcelink.com. We will featuring stories in our next newsletter 9. Connect with Arkansas SourceLink. Follow, fan and connect with us all year long to find more tips and events for entrepreneurs, whether you’re startup or second stage, microenterprise, innovation-led or Main Street. We’re on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. And we also boast the most comprehensive business calendar in town. 10. Give thanks. Take the time this holiday season to sincerely thank those you helped you get where you are—your coaches, mentors, employees and customers. And call your mom. Image from Wikipedia Commons
How to Decrease Your Website’s Bounce Rate
If you, as an entrepreneur or aspiring entrepreneur, are reading this blog post then you probably already realize the importance of having a web presence for your company. While all kinds of social media are great, you can’t beat a basic website to make yourself and your company visible on the Internet. Even if you don’t do your own website work, it’s important to understand how people will potentially interact with the site. Once you have a website, you need people to use it. The best way to figure out if people are using it in your intended manner is to follow analytics. Google offers great analytics tools that are fairly easy to learn and use. That’s for another post though. What I want to talk about today is decreasing your website’s bounce rate. Don’t know what a bounce rate is? That’s fine, but if you’re interested in making your website successful, you should probably be familiar with the term. Bounce rate is defined by Google as the percentage of single-page sessions, i.e. sessions in which the person left your site from the entrance page without interacting with the page. There are several reasons why people aren’t interacting with your website. Hubspot has put together a great infographic on how to decrease your website’s bounce rate. The infographic makes several good points, a couple of which we’ll focus on here: [Read more…]
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