http://businessleaps.com taking business to the next level Sun, 04 May 2008 14:31:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Born on March 11th, 1931, Murdoch has built one of the largest media conglomerates in history. Recently, Murdoch has purchased one of the most respected newspapers worldwide: The Wall Street Journal. “Murdoch likes to say he has 20 good years left. His mother is 98,” says Eric Pooley on ... http://businessleaps.com/2008/03/11/happy-birthday-rupert-murdoch-turns-77/ Seven days ago, we started a contest to give away 500 Entrecard credits to a random users whom commented on an article. Today congratulations goes to 'Entrepreneur' from entrepreneur.com.sg. Again, Congratulations! A huge thanks goes to everyone who participated. Be sure to come back for our other prizes. http://businessleaps.com/2008/03/03/the-winner-of-comment-contest/ I’ve been banned from Digg. I used to love Digg, but I’ve done something to Digg it didn’t like. I’m now an “invalid user.” Digg you’ve dugg your own grave; you’re no longer run by users, but robotic editors. And It’s editing content and denying the existence of an editor ... http://businessleaps.com/2008/02/28/digg-dugg-its-own-grave/ Who was born on March 11th? To celebrate this birthday, for this very successful person, Business Leaps is giving away 200 Entrecard Credits. Contest ends on March 11th 8:00 AM. Hint: The Birthday person is extremely successful in our related field. See if you be the first to guess and win the ... http://businessleaps.com/2008/02/25/guess-the-birthday-and-win-200-entrecard-credits/ It's time to win 500 Entrecard Credits. I have 500 Credits going to one lucky reader. You can enter by making one comment on any article -- preferably on an article other than this post. Each genuine comment is an entry, so each comment greatly increases your chances of winning. Contest ends ... http://businessleaps.com/2008/02/25/entrecard-contest-win-500-credits/ About every 2.3 seconds a new, revolutionary – take your business to the next level without working – tool comes on-line. Many of these tools aren’t working as promised, mush like the 'rushing of the blogs' by Reese a few months back. However there are a few that begin to offer ... http://businessleaps.com/2008/02/05/crafting-a-successful-entrecard-strategy/ Ryan gives a twist on link building offering readers a different approach to link building. His advice? Write one quality article and submit it to an article directory. Which is different from most advice where quality doesn't count. Viral Marketing Terminology Matthew Peters over at PandemicBlog gave a excellent article separating the ... http://businessleaps.com/2008/01/31/link-building-and-viral-marketing/ Karen Post, a columnist at Fast Company, gives some advice about changing a new business venture. She offers a few tips and some well-worn clichés. The cheese advice includes "hire only specialists" and "stay connected and communicate honestly with your brand evangelists," but in her defense she rescues herself with ... http://businessleaps.com/2008/01/23/marketing-advise-at-105-mph/ In 2007, Shoe Money becomes the market leader, with 28%, in the market of publishers for on-line business owners. John Chow, slightly behind Shoe Money, grabbed 21% of the market. Based on our research, the on-line business information market reached 391,629 in monthly demand at the end of 2007, ... http://businessleaps.com/2008/01/22/shoe-money-leads-in-market-share/ 1. Problogger With 153,283 visitors, Darren Rowse comes in first. Rowse suggests bloggers stop worrying about Page Rank and focus on building a better blog. "You see - Google [is] in the business of helping their users find great, authoritative and credible content on any given topic and I’m increasingly becoming convinced ... http://businessleaps.com/2008/01/18/top-five-growth/