1. News Update
2. Welcome to Issue Thirty-One
3. Audio of First Seven Chapters of Zero to One Million
4. Connect With Ryan On LinkedIn or Facebook
5. 2006 Speaking Engagements
6. Writing Your Company's Mission Statement
7. The Net Effect of Hispanic Immigration on the North Carolina Economy and Tax Base
8. The Best & Worst Things About Being an Entrepreneur: An Alien's Choice
9. Update from Ryan's Anti-Poverty Blog
10. Content for Your Website
11. Powerpoint Presentation Downloads
12. June Discussion Forum Highlights
13. Recommended Book List for Entrepreneurs
14. Updates from Ryan's Entrepreneurship Blog
15. Featured Organization of the Month: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
16. Closing Notes
17. Premier Sponsor: Virante
18. Additional Sponsors

Broadwick passed 4900 clients in June for its email marketing software IntelliContact and secured investment funding of $500,000 from NC IDEA last month. IntelliContact is a web-based email marketing application that allows clients to easily create, send, and track email newsletters and surveys. IntelliContact also welcomed a new Customer Support Representative Angela Brown and developer Jason Laughlin to its teams this month.

Virante continues to expand its client-base offering search engine optimization and web marketing packages for clients looking to improve their online positioning. If your company needs any assistance with search engine optimization, CPC management, link building, website development, online ad spend management, or email marketing campaign development visit us online to learn more and contact Malcolm Young at 919-459-1447 for a quotation. Virante has recently welcomed Bob Misita onto the team as our COO to expand and refine our best-of-breed web marketing services and to generate new business by heading up newly added sales staff to help promote our new product line and services packages.

Ryan attended the Fortune Brainstorm conference in Aspen, Colorado last week. He had the chance to participate in sessions on poverty, climate change, ethanol, cancer, technology, and more and had the chance to meet Madeleine Albright, Lance Armstrong, John McCain, Mark Cuban, Pierre Omidyar, Michael Eisner and Sandra Day O'Conner. Check out Ryan's blog for a report on how it went.

Sales of Zero to One Million: How to Build a Company to $1 Million in Sales hit a record high in June. Key endorsers include Jay Conrad Levinson, author of Guerilla Marketing and David Chernow, President of Junior Achievement Worldwide. We encourage you to discuss the book in our entrepreneurship forum. Buy your copy of the book now from Amazon for just $10.37. Download an audio introduction.

The Anti-Poverty Campaign is an organization founded by Ryan in September 2005 to consign absolute poverty to the dustbin of history by 2025. We invite you to the site to read and participate. Contact allisr [at] broadwick.com if you'd like to write for the Anti-Poverty Campaign Blog.

We hope you enjoy this month's Entrepreneurs' Chronicle!

There are three new feature articles this month - "Writing Your Companies Mission Statement" and "The Best and Worst Things About Being an Entrepreneur: An Alien's Choice" both excerpts from Zero to One Million and an article excerpt from the Anti-Poverty Campaign called "The Net Effect of Hispanic Immigration on the North Carolina Economy and Tax Base." I hope you find these articles very useful and applicable to your business life.

The July newsletter also contains an update on the Zeromillion.com Discussion Forum, a section that provides free content you may use on your website, links to powerpoint presentations from past speeches I've given, and a list of our book recommendations for current and aspiring entrepreneurs and business leaders.

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Writing Your Company's Mission Statement

An Excerpt from the book Zero to One Million: How to Build a Company to One Million Dollars in Sales by Ryan Allis

Once you have your business plan in place, there is just one more element of organizational planning to do. It is very important to come up with, and have all those involved with your company, agree on a common mission statement of your business.

As a new company owner, especially if there is more than one person working on the business, writing the mission statement for your business can be one of the most important things you can do. Often you will have rather different ideas among partners as to the direction and strategy of a company. By answering the questions below collaboratively and creating one document that all involved in the company agree to and sign, you will not only minimize headaches and arguments down the road but also be fully aligned on your goals and be able to work together efficiently.

Mission statements can be short or they can be long, up to a couple pages. You may wish to come up with both a short mission statement that you’ll show to all your customers and promote and a longer statement for internal guidance and planning. Here are three steps to coming up with a short mission statement.

Step One: Identify the target customer
Step Two: State what you’ll provide to customers
Step Three: State what differentiates your firm

Examples of short mission statements include:

Avis - Our business is renting cars. Our mission is complete customer satisfaction.
Eastman Kodak - To be the world’s best in chemicals and electronic imaging
McDonald’s – To offer the fast food customer food prepared in the same high quality manner worldwide, tasty and reasonably priced, delivered in a consistent, low-key décor and friendly atmosphere.

If you plan to write a longer mission statement, simply answer the following ten questions.

Ten Questions Your Mission Statement Should Answer

1. What problem(s) do you solve? What need(s) do you fulfill?
2. What do you sell? How do you make your money? What is your revenue model?
3. How are you unique from everyone else out there? What is your unique selling proposition?
4. Who will you sell to? What is your target market?
5. What are your economic/financial goals?
6. What are your social/community goals?
7. What type of company do you want to create? Will you build a lifestyle or high potential company?
8. Where is the company going? What products/services/industries do you plan to venture into?
9. What is your five year strategy? Do you want to sell internationally, build an online store, franchise your business, build certain partnerships, develop additional products?
10. Do you ever plan on selling the company or going public? What is your exit strategy?

It may take weeks and multiple meetings and editing to get the responses to the above questions to be agreed upon by all parties and a single document created that all will sign. While it takes time, I cannot emphasize enough the important of having such a document. As stated above, it will not only dramatically reduce conflict and prevent arguments, but will also align all in your business with the same goals, in turn creating a much more effective team and much more profitable business.

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Ryan Allis is the CEO of Broadwick Corporation, a provider of email marketing software IntelliContact , and CEO of Virante, Inc., a Durham, North Carolina based web marketing consulting firm. Ryan, who is 21, is currently taking time off from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is an economics major and Blanchard Scholar. Additional information on the author can be found at www.ryanallis.com.

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by Ryan P. Allis | Read Article At the Anti-Poverty Campaign Blog

I had the opportunity to attend a discussion on Hispanic Immigration last week at the Kenan Institute for Private Enterprise. During the session, the Director of the Institute Dr. Jack Kasarda and Armando Ortiz-Rocha from the Raleigh, NC Spanish Embassy presented.

Dr. Kasarda's presentation provided a summary of the results of a comprehensive study he completed in January looking at the effects of Hispanic immigration to the North Carolina economy and tax base.

With the ongoing debate on immigration, especially Hispanic immigration in our country and in our halls of Congress, I felt it especially important to pass on some of the conclusions of his study that support that there is a tangible, calculatable, and positive value to having Hispanic immigrants in North Carolina where there are 288,537 Hispanic immigrants and approximately 129,000 undocumented Hispanic immigrants.

First, some of the national facts from the study (source is cited at the end):

• There are 12 million unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. from a total of 70 countries
• 45% of these unauthorized immigrants (5.4 million are from Mexico)
• The U.S. per capita income is $41,558
• The Mexican per capita income is $7,180
• 400,000 new immigrants come to the U.S. each year
• 50% of the new immigrants that come to the U.S. each year are unauthorized
• 400 persons per year die trying to cross the Mexican/U.S. border

And now some North Carolina figures:

• There are 506,000 Hispanic residents in North Carolina
• There are approximately 288,500 Hispanic immigrants in North Carolina
• There are approximately 129,000 unauthorized Hispanic immigrants in North Carolina
• These unauthorized Hispanic immigrants in North Carolina are responsible for $817mm in spending by the North Carolina government broken into three broad categories.
• $467mm to education
• $299mm to health care
• $51mm to corrections
• These unauthorized Hispanic immigrants in North Carolina contribute $755mm in tax revenue to North Carolina
• As such there is a net tax base loss of $61mm to the State to have these unauthorized Hispanic immigrants in the state.

BUT (and there better not be anyone who quotes this blog post without including the but, Mr. Dobbs)...

• This $61mm tax base loss is more than offset by:
• The $9.2 billion that these Hispanic residents contribute to business revenue in North Carolina
• The $1.8 billion dollars in business cost savings that is created by the Hispanic workers
• The 89,000 additional jobs that these Hispanic residents create

The conclusion of the study is that, in North Carolina, the NC State Government is making an investment of $61 million to create 89,000 jobs, $1.8 in business cost savings, and $9.2 billion in business revenue. So if these figures are accurate, from an economic perspective there is a net benefit to the NC Government and NC citizens to have the unauthorized Hispanic immigrants in North Carolina. If (and this is an if) these figures held true for the rest of the country (who is doing research on this?) it may well settle the debate that has gone around our nation for the past three months (really the past 25 years). Yes, make sure the unauthorized immigrants don't break the law and make sure they work and pay taxes. And yes, figure out a better system to allow the immigrants to become authorized over time provided they work and pay taxes, but a) don't be so closed-minded that you see these humans as having any less value than us and b) realize that they are, at least, in North Carolina, at net benefit for all of us to welcome and embrace, not humiliate, denigrate, and isolate.

So tying this back into the poverty theme, I do wonder:

1. What would the national and worldwide migration policy implications here be; and
2. What effect do those implications have here at home where 12% of U.S. residents live under our poverty line of $27 per day (Source: U.S. Census Bureau 2004 figure) and worldwide where 40% (Source: World Bank PovertyNet) live on under $2 per day?
3. What would be the impact of a more welcoming migration policy be on increasing economic ties, increasing the GDP at home, promoting understanding between cultures, and reducing poverty at home and abroad?

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The source of these figures is the study "The Economic Impact of the Hispanic Population on the State of North Carolina" available from Dr. Jack Kasarda at the Kenan Institute for Private Enterprise at UNC-Chapel Hill. - Ryan P. Allis

The Best & Worst Things About Being an Entrepreneur: An Alien's Choice

An Excerpt from the book Zero to One Million: How to Build a Company to One Million Dollars in Sales by Ryan Allis

An alien lands on Earth. After a few days she finds out that she is going to need some money in order to purchase food and shelter. Daringdo has a choice. Should she become an entrepreneur or get a job? Let’s examine the best and worst things about being an entrepreneur so we can help Daringdo make an educated decision.

According to InvestorForce co-founder Colin Wahl, the worst thing about being an entrepreneur is the loneliness. He says, “You are on your own and nobody supports you because it’s hard for them to see what you see and feel the excitement that you feel in the early stages.”

I would have to agree with Colin on this point. It can indeed be lonely sometimes. One can also become de-motivated after working so hard and so long on something for which the reward may be months or years away or perhaps never to come at all.

KendallTodd, Inc. CEO Todd Ballenger says that the worst thing about being an entrepreneur is that you often work 80 hours a week as an entrepreneur to avoid working 40 hours a week as an employee. Posed with the same question, Inspire Pharmaceuticals CEO Christy Shafer says the worst thing is that you are constantly busy and stressed out and have less time for family. Best Friends Pet Care founder Randy Myer says that the worst thing is the impact on your health and your family.

With cash flow problems, having to lay people off, working eighty hour weeks, the possibility of not ever being paid for your work, and loneliness, why in the world would anyone want to be an entrepreneur? An extra-terrestrial coming to this planet for the first time would surely choose the safety and security of a job in Corporate America. Or would she?

Before we can be sure, there is another side of the coin we must examine. Along with the negative, there are a number of positive things that go along with being an entrepreneur. While being an entrepreneur is not for everyone, let’s examine the upside before you make your final decision.

So what is the positive side? Well, first you have freedom. You have the opportunity to use all your skills. Significant financial reward goes to he who succeeds. You have control over your destiny and will never have to worry you or your family’s financial security. Respect comes from your peers. You have the recognition of being a visionary. You have provided hundreds or thousands of people with jobs and they respect and thank you. You have provided value and efficiency to a market and improved the standard of living of many. Finally, there is no worry about being laid off or not being able to take care of yourself after the value of your 401(k) plan evaporates.

MCNC Chairman Dave Rizzo says, “You have control over your destiny, your calendar, and the vision is yours.” Christy Shafer adds, “You are constantly challenged and have fun.” Colin Wahl notes, “You have much more control of your own destiny and your entire life!’ Randy Myer states, “The best part is the rewards -- financial and psychological.”

So what will you choose? Well, in the end this lies with you. However, do remember that we only live once. If you have a good idea, the trust in yourself to execute, a basic knowledge of business, can bring together a good team, feel you are at the right stage in your life, and believe you can afford the risk, I’d highly recommend going for it. But you must get going and start moving.

There is a certain law of inertia that I often reference. A body in motion remains in motion. And while in motion finds new people and acquires new knowledge that it would not have come in contact with if it was not moving. Once you begin on a quest, that quest will lead you to things unbeknownst to you at the beginning. Once you start on your quest, many new events and pieces of knowledge will fall into place. Inertia will take effect as new knowledge and possibilities create a snowball effect up the learning curve as you come closer and closer to your goal. Therefore one should not wait until all the traffic signals are green before he starts his journey.

In the end, it may take awhile to reap the benefits of being an entrepreneur. And you may experience much of the downside along the way. But if you get moving today and are adaptive, persuasive, self-confident, and a visionary, and have perseverance, have a bias towards action, and can inspire others with your leadership, you may just be able to enjoy this upside. As Colin Wahl says, "Go for it, it’s an incredible chance of a lifetime – as the saying goes, better to have tried and lost than never to have tried at all! The riskiest thing to do is not to try…then the chance of success is zero. The downside: even if things don’t work out you will gain amazing experience that will help you even if you end up having to go back to working for someone else."

So what is the final decision? Will our alien friend decide to be an entrepreneur or an employee? Well, after thinking things over, she decides that she’d be better off applying for a few scholarships, going to school, working on her English and business knowledge, making some contacts, and developing some business plans while interning at a company in the field she is interested in, and then venturing off on her own. Smart alien.

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Ryan Allis is the CEO of Broadwick Corporation, a provider of email marketing software IntelliContact , and CEO of Virante, Inc., a Durham, North Carolina based web marketing consulting firm. Ryan, who is 21, is currently taking time off from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is an economics major and Blanchard Scholar. Additional information on the author can be found at www.ryanallis.com.

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Topics To Date:

1. Buenos Aires Garden Project Completed
2. The Net Effect of Hispanic Immigration on the North Carolina Economy and Tax Base
3. Cooking, and the Hopes and Dreams of Buenos Aireans
4. Comparing Paris to Mali
5. Getting Malaria in Mali
6. The People of Mali, Excision Research, and Grassroots Development Aid
7. Excision, Midnight Swimming and Rain in Mali
8. Poverty Reduction in China: Stiglitz Says Don't Leave it On Autopilot
9. Skoll World Forum
10. Traveling in Mali
11. Is A Japanese Cow Worth 3.5 Times an Average Human?
12. The Rhetoric of Bono Can Be Powerful
13. Fortune Brainstorm Response: The Biggest Problem in the World
14. The Relative Efficacy of Aid vs. Trade
15. Parasites, Forced Marriage, and the AIDS Conspiracy
16. Getting Sick in Mali
17. Homelessness, Unemployment, and Microfinance in Mali
18. Sickness, Friendliness, Men, and Zoos in Mali
19. Health, Malian Women, and Feminism
20. Food, Bribery, & Climbing in Mali
21. Is Your Child Worth $3.83?
22. Mali Update
23. First Week in Mali
24. Dispatches from Mali
25. 2006 World Economic Forum
26. The $91 Billion Conversation
27. Video on Microfinance
28. What Would God Think?
29. Economics is the "Sexiest Trade Alive" According to Newsweek
30. Some Success in Hong Kong is Good News
31. The WTO and Farming Subsidies
32. The Relative Value of 37 Million Americans Against 3000 Million Non-Americans
33. The Role of the Youth of Africa in Reducing Poverty
34. The Top 8% of the World's Wealthy
35. Interesting West Wing Presidential Debate
36. Our Mission -- Ending Extreme Poverty in Our Lifetime
37. One of My Favorite Quotes
38. Join The Anti-Poverty Campaign Team
39. John Edwards Has It Right About Poverty, Mostly
40. Props to UNC-Chapel Hill for Having their Own Live 8
41. A $23 Lesson in Selling
42. Props to CNN for covering "A Global Summit with President Clinton"
43. A great comment in today's Financial Times
44. The List of Leaders -- Which Ones Will Take Action?
45. UN Millenium Development Goals
    

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The following books are recommended for reading by aspiring and current entrepreneurs and business leaders. The books in bold are must reads. Please email any recommendations for additions to this list to myoung [at] virante.com.

Globalization & Economics

• The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman
• The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman
• The Commanding Heights by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw
• Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal by Ball and Dagger
• The Worldly Philosophers by Robert L Heilbroner
• Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets by John McMillan
• The Mystery of Capital by Hernando de Soto
• Economics by Stanley and Brue
• Macroeconomics by N. Gregory Mankiw
• Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph A. Schumpeter
• International Business by Charles W. H. Hill
• Against the Dead Hand by Brink Lindsey

Entrepreneurship

• Zero to One Million by Ryan P. M. Allis
• Zero to IPO by David Smith
• Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
• Rich Dad's Guide to Investing by Robert Kiyosaki
• New Venture Creation by Jeffrey Timmons
• Good to Great by Jim Collins
• The E-Myth by Michael Gerber
• The Young Entrepreneurs' Edge by Jennifer Kushnell
• The Young Entrepreneur's Guide to Starting and Running a Business by Steve Mariotti
• The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship by William D. Bygrave
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker
• Good to Great by Jim Collins
• At Work with Thomas Edison by Blain McCormick
• Multiple Streams of Income by Robert G. Allen
• On Entrepreneurship by Harvard Business Review
• Entrepreneurship.com by Tim Burns
• The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki
• Fire in the Belly - an exploration of the entrepreneurial spirit by Yanky Fachler

Marketing

• The Anatomy of Buzz by Emanuel Rosen
• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
• Obtaining a #1 Ranking in the Search Engines by Ryan Allis
• What Clients Love by Harry Beckwith
• Building Thousands of Links to Your Site by Ryan Allis
• Net Results 2 by Rick E. Bruner
• Protégé Training Program by Jay Abraham
• Permission Marketing by Seth Godin
• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
• Guerilla Marketing by Jay Conrad Levinson
• Principles of Marketing by Kotler and Armstrong

Personal Development

• Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven R. Covey
• Succeed and Grow Rich Through Persuasion by Napoleon Hill
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons by Napoleon Hill
• The Student Success Manifesto by Michael Simmons
• Secrets of the Young & Successful Jennifer Kushnell
• Soul of Money by Lynne Twist
• Unlimited Power by Anthony Robbins
• The Millionaire Mind by Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D

Follow the journey of young entrepreneur Ryan Allis as he builds his second company, Broadwick Corporation to ten million dollars in sales, publishes his first book, Zero to One Million, travels the country as a web marketing consultant and speaker on young entrepreneurship and personal development, launches his non-profit organization, and lives the life of a bootstrapping entrepreneur. Read Ryan's Blog Now.

Recently Ryan posted updates with the titles of:

• Limited Beta of the Best Email Marketing Product in the World
• NC IDEA Funding
• TBJ 40 Under 40 Responses
• Liberation from 800x600
• April Entrepreneurs' Chronicle
• Fortune Brainstorm
• It's Coming
• AOL & Yahoo Not Charging to Send Emails
• Audio Downloads of the First Four Chapters from Zero to One Million
• The 20 Most Important BusinessLessons I Learned in 2005
• Been Up All Night
• Need Your Vote for BusinessWeek's Top Entrepreneur Under 25

You can read the blog now at http://www.ryanallis.com/blog/.

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Past Highlighted Organizations:

June 2006 - Kauffman Foundation
May 2006 - Skoll Foundation
April 2006 - Nourish International
January 2006 - Youth Social Enterprise Initiative
December 2005 - Youth Social Enterprise Initiative
November 2005 - American Red Cross
September 2005 - American Red Cross
August 2005 - Grameen Foundation
July 2005 - Oxfam International
June 2005 - Habitat for Humanity
May 2005 - National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship
April 2005 - Opportunity International
March 2005 - The Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization
February 2005 - United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
February 2005 - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
August 2004 - Youth Development & Entrepreneurship Foundation
July 2004 - Lead America
June 2004 - Students in Free Enterprise
May 2004 - Junior Achievement

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