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The Entrepreneurship Chronicle :: March 2010 Issue :: 55 |
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Dear [fname],
Welcome to the Entrepreneurship Chronicle! I hope you have made progress on your entrepreneurial vision and that you gain value from this issue of The Entrepreneurship Chronicle!
Entrepreneurially Yours,
Ryan P. Allis, CEO
iContact Corp.
2635 Meridian Parkway
Durham, NC
www.iContact.com
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Weekly Entrepreneurship Video Series
Ryan Allis
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Ryan Allis is a technology entrepreneur and social entrepreneur from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He is the co-founder and CEO of iContact, the leading global provider of email marketing services to small and mid-sized businesses. More About Ryan Allis
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Non-Profit of the Month
Capital Area Preservation, Inc.
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The Capital Area Preservation works to secure a place for our historic resources in Wake County's future through programs of protection, promotion and education. They strive to protect landmarks, easements. properties for sale and development projects. They also encourage others by promoting newsletters and preservation awards and push to educate others with events and books.
The Capital Area Preservation has saved places like the Mordecai House, Mordecai Park, Montgomery House, Gray-Fish Richardson house and more. Capital Area Preservation, Inc. (CAP) traces its beginnings to the first stirring of a grass roots preservation movement in the Raleigh and Wake County of the late 1960s. They now commit to strengthening its efforts on behalf or our region's vanishing historic properties. CAP counts on the support of corporations and individuals across and beyond Wake County.
(To learn more or get involved visit: www.cappresinc.org/index.php )
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How I Aligned What I Love with What I Do
Ryan Allis
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This post will require a certain degree of vulnerability. Sometimes we build a hard shell around us when we're going through difficult times. This is a story of personal growth.
A year ago I was sitting late at night in my Durham office at iContact wondering if I'd become a corporate sellout.
Was I trading in some of my most productive years of life to build a company I was no longer passionate about?
I had gone from being an entrepreneur to a manager. I was 24 and we had 150 employees and $20M in sales. I was dealing with purchase order forms and paid time off policies. We had achieved all the goals we had ever set out for ourselves. Where was the entrepreneurial passion?
(Read the Rest of this Article Here....)
Ryan Allis is a technology entrepreneur and social entrepreneur from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He is the co-founder and CEO of iContact, the leading global provider of email marketing services to small and mid-sized businesses.
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Sales Tips to Minimize Distractions and Increase Sales
Jeremy Ulmer
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As a sales professional, sales leader or business owner, distractions can often be the main obstacle for achieving great success.
If you have too many distractions, you will never achieve your full potential. It is important to continue to evaluate what sales activities will be most important to reach your goals. Then, you must focus on those activities first, and make a commitment to complete them each and every day without failure.
You must remove and minimize your distractions. You will then have the time to focus on what you have determined is most important.
(Read the Rest of this Article Here....)
Sales Coaching Expert, Jeremy J. Ulmer, has helped hundreds of sales professionals, sales leaders, businesses and entrepreneurs overcome sales challenges to achieve breakthrough results.
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Zero to One Million: How I Built My Company to $1 Million in Sales . . . and How You Can, Too
Ryan Allis
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Book Description
Do You Want to Become a Multi-Millionaire Entrepreneur? Here's How.
By the time Ryan Allis had reached the age of twenty-one, he had achieved the financial goal most people just dream about: He built his company to one million in sales. Allis has since grown his company iContact Corp., a provider of Web-based email marketing and online communication softwares, to $28 million per year in sales, and has helped numerous clients increase their sales dramatically.
Now Allis shares the secrets of his lightning-fast success with you. In Zero to One Million, he details his simple yet innovative evaluation system of "Market-Advantages-Return" to help you determine if your business idea is viable. Once you have a solid foundation, you can apply his advice for successfully running your business-from initial planning to managing high-speed growth.
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Evaluate your business idea using the innovative MAR system
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Write a business plan sure to excite your investors
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Launch your company with minimal expenditure
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Boost online sales using cutting-edge marketing strategies
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Watch all your hard work transform into millions
Did you know that eighty-one percent of millionaires are entrepreneurs? Join the pantheon of successful businessmen and women with Zero to One Million.
About the Author
Ryan P. Allis is CEO of iContact Corp., a venture-backed email marketing and online communications firm that has grown from nothing to over $32 million in annual sales with over 59,000 customers and 190 employees. Ryan is also the Chairman of the web marketing firm Virante, Inc.
(Buy the Book....)
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Do you have a Facebook account?
If so, Ryan's on Facebook too. Just look up Ryan
Allis (the one at UNC-Chapel Hill). Send
Ryan a message or a friend request. |  |
Ryan
also uses LinkedIn. If you want to connect to Ryan
on Linked in just look him up and send a connection
request to allisr [at] icontact.com.
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Or Follow Ryan on Twitter:
ryanallis
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Don't
have Facebook or LinkedIn but still want to ask Ryan
a question? Feel free to email Ryan at allisr [at]
icontact.com. Thank you!
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I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work"
- Harry Truman, former U.S. President
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