1. News Update
2. Welcome to Issue Thirty
3. Audio of First Seven Chapters of Zero to One Million
4. Building Your Team & Finding Partners for Your Business
5. Networking to the Top - Tips for Building Relationships and Getting Where You Want to Be
6. Update from Ryan's Anti-Poverty Blog
7. Content for Your Website
8. Powerpoint Presentation Downloads
9. May Discussion Forum Highlights
10. Recommended Book List for Entrepreneurs
11. Updates from Ryan's Entrepreneurship Blog
12. Featured Organization of the Month: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
13. Connect With Ryan With Facebook or LinkedIn
14. Closing Notes
15. Premier Sponsor: Virante
16. Additional Sponsors

Broadwick closed on $500,000 of investment funding from venture capital firm NC IDEA and passed 4800 clients in May for its email marketing software IntelliContact. Broadwick is preparing to launch the beta version IntelliContact 4.0 on July 1. IntelliContact is a web-based email marketing application that allows clients to easily create, send, and track email newsletters and surveys. Broadwick also recently hired CFO Tim Oakley, who was CFO at OpenSite from 1998 to 2000. OpenSite, a developer of online auction software, was purchased by Siebel for close to $450 million in 2000. IntelliContact 4.0 Screen Shot

Virante has launched a new web site this month. It continues to expand its client-base offering strategic web marketing consulting to high potential organizations. If your company needs any assistance with search engine optimization, CPC management, link building, website development, online ad spend management, online reputation management, corporate blog or wiki deployment, flash and graphic design, buzz marketing, print design or email marketing campaign development contact Malcolm Young at myoung [at] virante.com or (919) 459-1088. Virante has also recently welcomed Julius Tillery to the team. Job Openings: Virante is now looking for two good direct salespersons to help grow the company. If you may be interested, please submit your resume and a cover letter with description of past sales experience and sales results to myoung [at] virante.com.

Sales of Zero to One Million: How to Build a Company to $1 Million in Sales hit a record high in May. 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, an organization founded by Ryan in September 2005 to consign absolute poverty to the dustbin of history by 2025, has added a new member and added 5 posts since the last issue. 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 two new feature articles this month - "Building Your Team & Finding Partners for Your Business" and "Networking to the Top - Tips for Building Relationships and Getting Where You Want to Be" - both being excerpts from Zero to One Million. I hope you find these articles very useful and applicable to your business life.

The June newsletter also contains an update on my Anti-Poverty Blog, 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.

If you have any comments, suggestions, or would like to contribute content to be published in the newsletter or online, I encourage you to contact us at myoung [at] virante.com. Please do feel free to forward this newsletter on to your colleagues and associates. On behalf of the Zeromillion.com team I thank you for being a subscriber.

Yours entrepreneurially,

Ryan P. M. Allis, founder
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The Top Entrepreneurship Resource Online
Author: Zero to One Million: How to Build a Company to $1 Million in Sales

Building Your Team & Finding Partners for Your Business

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

Many aspiring entrepreneurs have asked me how they can find a business partner. I always answer that a partner is not someone that you can find overnight or in a few weeks. It usually can only be someone that you have been friends with for a while and have developed trust in and established trust with, someone that has worked for you for some time, or someone you’ve worked with in the past.

Until April of 2003, I had never had a business partner. Today, I have four. Three of them I met initially through the Carolina Entrepreneurship Club at UNC—the other I met through the Alpha Kappa Psi business fraternity.

Having a business partner can be very helpful. Partners can help with financing, industry contacts, or taking over roles you have less experience in. They can allow you to get twice the work done in half the time and can give you that needed motivation when things are tough.

If you do wish to find a partner, start networking. Join your local Chamber of Commerce and volunteer for committees and in your community. If you are a student, join business clubs or business fraternities. Talk to people about your business whenever you can. Put up flyers looking for a partner in an entrepreneurial business. If you receive any replies, meet with that person and if you feel it would be good to do so, start them in a role where they can began to learn and show you their commitment. After a few months, you may be ready to offer them part ownership in your company.

I have found that one of the toughest conversations to have with someone is the discussion regarding equity distribution—what percentage of ownership each partner gets. It is often hard to negotiate with someone who is a close friend of yours. Because of this, some partners simply decide to split things equally. Unfortunately, it is a rare occurrence that all persons involved contribute equally to a company. If the proper steps are not taken, such an occurrence—when one partner is not living up to his or her end of the deal—can destroy long lasting friendships.

To protect against this, I would highly recommend two things. First, no matter how difficult it is, have a serious conversation with your partner(s) about who should get what. Base your discussion on the following four factors:

1. Work completed in the past;
2. Monetary investment into the company;
3. Who will be doing work in the future; and
4. Experience and contacts in the industry.

Secondly, I’d very much recommend vesting your shares and having a stock restriction agreement. Vesting is simply the granting of the decided upon amount of ownership over time, instead of all at once. For example, if you give a partner 30% of your company without vesting his shares and he leaves a month later, he’ll leave with 30%. On the other hand, if you vest that partner’s shares over 3 years, he will leave with only 0.83% of the company. In this case, he would have to work for the full three years to receive the 30%. Vesting is used often by venture capital companies to put ‘golden handcuffs’ on top executives. If you do use vesting, you’ll need to have a stock restriction agreement that spells out these terms, including the terms of sale and transfer. If you are in the United States, you also may wish to file an 83(b) election with the IRS to shift your tax burden from the year of sale to the current year.

Before you launch your company, you may wish to bring additional persons onto your Board of Directors. You may wish to ask industry veterans or key investors to join. Simply keep in mind that you should have an odd-numbered board at all times, as decisions will not be able to be made with an even number since a majority vote is needed. In order to attract experience to your board, you may need to offer stock options or a yearly stipend for members. You also may wish to set up an informal Advisory Board for your company.

As your company grows, you will have to add on certain professionals and outside advisors to your team. You’ll want to have a good accountant, attorney, financial advisor, insurance agent, and banker. These important advisors will be a big part of your company’s success or failure. As Robert Kiyosaki says in Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing; “First dream of having a team of full-time accountants and attorneys. Then you can have the big boat and the free time.”

As you grow your team and begin hiring employees, you’ll have to quickly learn to evaluate applicants and resumes, and do interviews. As it is very hard to tell how good someone will be or how they’ll fit into your company’s culture from just an interview or resume, I ask that all new entry-level hires work as an intern for me for four weeks. During this time, I evaluate the two most important qualities that a good worker can have—initiative and work ethic. You’ll quickly learn that no matter what someone’s experience, if you can find someone that has a bias toward action, takes initiative, and has a solid work ethic, you’ll have found someone that you’ll want on your team permanently.

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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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Networking to the Top - Tips for Building Relationships and Getting Where You Want to Be

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

In business and in life, it is who you know and how well you know them that will determine the opportunities you have and whether you can reach your goals. You must make an exerted effort to get out there and build relationships. Every single person you meet might just become your next business partner or largest client. Every single person you meet knows hundreds of other persons who they can refer you to, if you can just take the time to establish a relationship. In my teaching this past summer in Boston and Chicago I told my students to think of every student at their school as a valuable person that could help them in many unforeseen ways ten, twenty, or seventy years down the road. You must view everyone you meet in the same manner.

In my consulting and web design businesses, time and time again my best advertising has been word of mouth and referrals from past customers. Humans are social creatures and will put much more credence in a referral than an advertisement. You’ll be amazed at the amount of business you can generate just by doing things like asking those you know who else they may know that could use your products or services, joining your local Chamber of Commerce, and volunteering in your community. Here are a few more tips for networking like a pro.

• Never burn your bridges.
• Always send thank you cards and be polite.
• Always have plenty of business cards on hand.
• Always follow-up when asked to do a favor with those you may need a favor from down the line.
• Never lose a relationship because you have to be right and refuse to apologize.
• Strategically volunteer with organizations that have members or directors you’d like to network with.
• Ask to shadow persons whom you would like to get to know and whose job positions interest you.
• Connect those in your network whom you think may be able to help each other.
• Invite those who have experience in business or your industry to serve on an informal Advisory Board for your company.

Building a large and valuable network is not something that can be done in a few weeks. It takes years. I place great importance on my network—both my local network and my worldwide network. Since age 17, when I realized the importance of building a network, I have carefully kept track of all those whom I come in contact with.

I use what I call a ‘top of the funnel’ strategy and add every person I meet to my contact database. I keep notes on the last time I spoke to them, what organization they are with, and any other pertinent items. I then keep in touch with each person and send them email updates every so often on what I am up to and send them my monthly ‘Entrepreneurs’ Chronicle’ newsletter, also via email. I segment my network by groups so I can send targeted information and leverage each segment when they are needed. I have segments for a personal Advisory Board, friends and family, college entrepreneurs, book updates, press contacts, international entrepreneurs, people I can stay with when I go on my book tour, and the five newsletters I send out each month—the Entrepreneurs’ Chronicle, Web Marketing Monthly, Email Marketing Monthly, the Search Engine Sentinel, and the Young Entrepreneurs’ Herald. And the best part is I can use my own software, IntelliContact Pro, to do all this. It truly is amazing how much more value I get out my network by simply staying in touch.

As part of your networking effort, always be on the lookout for potential mentors. You’ll find that a commonality across every successful entrepreneur out there is that—at one point or another they had a mentor that they can point to as being essential in getting from one level to another in business. If there is someone you respect or someone who is in a position you’d like to be in one day, ask them out to lunch one day. The worst that could happen is they say no. If they say yes, ask them how they did it, what challenges they’ve faced, and any advice that they may have for you. Then, if things work out and you’ve established good rapport, ask them to be a formal mentor to you and eat lunch with you once per month.

In general, most people are willing to help you. You must ask, however, and you must be genuine. You must be willing to take a chance, take a risk, and ask someone. You must have confidence. You must not come with a sales pitch, but rather with a few questions seeking advice. If you can find a common link between yourself and another person—such as the same Alma Mater or the same industry—most likely they’ll at least give you ten minutes of their time by phone or exchange a few emails with you. At the end of meeting, always ask for referrals. One can achieve nearly any positive goal by asking for help and asking for referrals. I call this “referraling yourself to the top.”

The Carolina Entrepreneurship Club runs two programs that are designed to help business owners build relationships. The first is called MentorMatch. Through this program we match successful entrepreneurs from the Raleigh, North Carolina chapter of the Young Entrepreneurs’ Organization with undergraduate student members of the club for a lunch. If the entrepreneur and student agree, they can establish a formal mentoring relationship after the first lunch, although neither is under any obligation.

Another program that has met with great success is our monthly Business Roundtables. At the roundtables we invite all the members of the club who either own a business or are thinking about starting one. At each meeting, we talk about the progress we’ve made with our companies in the mean time and any issues we are facing. The group has been a wonderful source of learning for the newer members, and very helpful source of peer advice for the more experienced members. Classic personal development writer Napoleon Hill called such a thing a “Mastermind Group” and has emphasized the value of such a group numerous times throughout his works. See if you can find similar MentorMatch programs or roundtables in your area.

No matter how you define success, no one can build a million dollar business, climb Mt. Everest, or win an election without the help of many people. Start building your network now and you’ll reach your goals much faster.

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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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In September of 2005, I started a new blog at AntiPovertyCampaign.org so I would have an outlet for my passion of finding ways to reduce poverty in developing countries. Check it out at www.antipovertycampaign.org. Below are some of the topics I've discussed so far. If you want to contribute to the blog just email me at allisr [at] broadwick.com and I'll set you up as an authorized contributor.

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Topics To Date:

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

• 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/.

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation works with partners to encourage entrepreneurship across America and improve the education of children and youth. The Foundation focuses its operations and grant making on two areas: entrepreneurship and education. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation promotes entrepreneurship by funding programs such as the Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative (CEI). The CEI focuses on enriching entrepreneurial studies for undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This is accomplished by weaving entrepreneurial based experiences into the curriculum, speaker series, research initiatives, and other programs offered through the program. One program in particular offered by CEI which augments the undergraduate curriculum is the entrepreneurship minor. Through the minor, students take courses in entrepreneurship choosing between a social and commercial track. Students also have to complete an internship; which are found with the assistance of CEI. This summer, Virante has the pleasure of having Julius Tillery as a web marking intern; coming from the entrepreneurship minor of CEI. Julius is a rising junior majoring in economics. Julius is attracted to Virante because of his love of working with computers. At UNC-CH, Julius works for the Information Technology Services, serving as the Law Library computer lab manager. Julius has a lot interest in web marketing and labels his internship an excellent match. To learn more or get involved visit Kauffman's Entrepreneurship Center.

Past Highlighted Organizations:

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

	Are you a high school or college student with 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] broadwick.com.

Don't have Facebook or LinkedIn but still want to ask Ryan a question? Feel free to email Ryan at allisr [at] broadwick.com. Do note that it make take a couple weeks for Ryan to reply. Thank you!

This concludes issue thirty of The Entrepreneurs' Chronicle. We'll see you again on July 1, 2006. If you are not subscribed and would like to subscribe, please visit http://www.zeromillion.com. If you would like to contribute content, become involved with the zeromillion.com team, make suggestions, or provide feedback please feel free to contact us at bwood [at] virante.com. We encourage you to participate in our discussion forum at http://www.zeromillion.com/talk/.

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