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JuniorBiz Journey

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Learnings from a Lemonade Stand: JJ Entry #20

by Nick Tart

For the last week or so, I have been exchanging emails with a bright young lady who wants to start a business. Initially she wanted to pursue something other than a lemonade stand.

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I’m Starting an Internet Marketing Service: JJ Entry #19

by Nick Tart

For those of you who don’t know, I’m a senior at Colorado State University. As my senior thesis, I’ve decided to write and publish the JuniorBiz Internet Marketing Guide. However, I don’t consider myself qualified to…

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New JuniorBiz Logos, Please Vote: JJ Entry #18

by Nick Tart

Ad Infinitum, a student-run advertising agency at CSU, has been designing several new logos for me for the last month or so. Today I received an email from Katie Matteo, one of the officers of the group, with 6 logo designs.

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Junior Achievement is Just Awesome! JJ Entry #17

by Nick Tart

If you are here because of Junior Achievement, you should read this. If not, you should still read this but it might not be as relevant. As some of you know, I recently (about 4 hours ago) had the opportunity to…

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Thinking and Growing into $100 Million: JJ Entry #16

by Nick Tart

Quinton Carlin was the first person to turn me on to Think and Grow Rich by describing it as the book that the majority of billionaires have read. I have since encountered many other people who have suggested the book.

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Improving JuniorBiz.com: JJ Entry #15

by Nick Tart

One day, about a week ago, I spent the majority of my waking hours on Blogussion.com. That’s right, the majority of the time I was awake that day I was reading articles on a website.

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Guest Posts + Digg Shouts = 77% More Traffic: JJ Entry #14

by Nick Tart

In the first week of the Summer 2009 JuniorBiz Project Charter traffic to my site increased 77% from 168 to 298 visitors. At this rate I will have over 280,000 weekly visitors by the end of the 13-week project charter.

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Setting Objectives and Goals for Your Business: JJ Entry #13

by Nick Tart

Within the “Project Charter: Summer 2009” I established 6 objectives and 20 goals for my business. Setting objectives and goals is important for any business (especially new ones) and I’ll begin by describing exactly…

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Twitter: To Auto-DM or Not To Auto-DM? JJ Entry #12

by Nick Tart

Following up on my Twitter Experiment with Direct Messages… It was a success, but at what cost? I’ll go into more detail under Objective 3 in this post. Additionally, this is the final JJ Entry from the JuniorBiz Project Charter.

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Thumbnail image for Experiment with Twitter Direct Messages: JJ Entry #11

Experiment with Twitter Direct Messages: JJ Entry #11

by Nick Tart

On Sunday April 19th, 2009, I started an experiment with the Twitter direct message feature to try and get more traffic and feedback on JuniorBiz.com. I also completed numerous other tasks in the JuniorBiz Project Charter this week, but the majority of this post will focus on the implementation and results of my Twitter experiment.

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Thumbnail image for Venture Adventure Results & Outcome: JJ Entry #10

Venture Adventure Results & Outcome: JJ Entry #10

by Nick Tart

Earlier this spring JuniorBiz, LLC was chosen as 1 of the 16 teams (out of over 30 teams that applied) to participate in the 9th annual Venture Adventure Business Plan Competition. No CSU team had ever won…

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