Archive for Israel Entrepreneur
Great Video about the Israeli Tech Industry by Sharon Weshler
Posted by: | CommentsAnother great list by Mashable. This one is a great source of links for freelancers and web programmers and designers can use to find new business. And yes this is perfect for Israelis looking for a new or additional source of income.
Now not only does this list include places to find freelance jobs, but also many different tools that can help you organize and manage your outsource products as well.
This list includes time management tools so you can time exactly how long a project takes you as well as resources that will allow you to send professional looking invoices so that you can get paid once your work is complete.
If you ever thought about getting into freelancing from Israel, I strongly suggest you use this list as your first resource.
CLICK ON THIS LINK TO SEE THE FULL LIST FROM MASHABLE
The move from TypePad to WordPress and the future of Israpreneur
Posted by: | CommentsDear Readers,
Over the past couple of days we have moved this blog over from TypePad to WordPress. We have done this for many reasons, but the most important is to be able to bring you more. More great articles, more writers and more features.
The economic situation in Israel is bleak and we have already started facing many challenges including lay offs by the thousands and companies closing. We are here to help you meet those challenges and to offer advice and inspiration to help you get through this rescession.
Please bear with us over the next couple of days as we continue to clean up this website and add new features and tools.
As always we welcome your thoughts and advice on how we can serve you better.
Israpreneur
For those that don't get it, Jews are only Jews by Jewish law if their Mother was a Jew unless they converted. So a man who's Father is not Jewish, but has a Jewish mother is a full fledged Jew according to Jewish law. So the joke is that President Obama is white according to Jewish law since his Mother was white. (I hate explaining jokes, but I don't want people to miss out on this one)
On this blog we will often post articles and other blog posts that we fill will be worthwhile to read. This one is by BusinessWeek. It is worth going through and checking out all the associated links.
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Keeping it simple, a key to entreprenurial success?
Posted by: | Comments K.I.S.S. (Keep it Simple Stupid) has become a rule of thumb. Now this can mean in terms of your product design or in the layout of your website or in anything having to do with your business. You want customers to fully understand your product in the easiest way possible. When a client comes to your website you want them to fully understand what you are all about and how you can help them. Keep things clean and uncluttered. Make your website easy to navigate or your product easy to use. Keeping things simple, well makes things simple and people love simple things. People love to use products that are simple to use or visit websites that make finding things simple (Have you ever noticed how simple and clean Google.com is?). Now you may ask what about choices? People love to have choices! Do they? Sometimes, but sometimes they would rather have just a couple of basic choices. Do you need 15 types of coffee? What if you had a choice of just three? But what about when choosing a laptop or a computer? Have you ever gone to Dell.com? They have so many choices which means they must be serving everyone and giving everyone what they want right? Well maybe not. Guess which computer company is thriving even in today's market? Dell? No. IBM? No. Gateways? Heck No! Apple? Yes Yes Yes! Apple is thriving! Ok it may be mostly because of their iphone product, but have you ever noticed how clean and simple their products are? How easy they are to use? Take a guess of how many products Apple sells? 11! Think I'm joking? Take a look at this article from CrunchGear, it talks all about what they call Apple's secret sauce. Read the article and ask yourself how can you apply apple's secret to make your sauce cook.
and their simple product line is the key. Look at it. There really
aren’t that many products: One cellphone, four iPods, three notebooks,
and three desktop computers. Now look at HP’s, Dell’s, or even Garmin
and TomTom’s product lines. Apple does something different and
hopefully others are taking notes.
I want my custard doughnut filled with cream!
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Every sufganiot maker in Israel missed their chance this year to really stick out from the crowd. Sure their were smaller donuts and some cool flavors, but what is the one thing everyone wants that you can never get enough of? The filling! And I'm not talking about the Jelly filling, I'm talking about the vanilla custard filling or the chocolate cream or especially the caramel cream! I want someone to make a doughnut that is 80% filling and only 20% dough! Yes, I will pay more! It beats needing to eat 4 of them to get the desired effect! So start preparing for next year and make the worlds best doughnuts and perhaps make a few shekels in the process as well! I will place my order now!
Viral Marketing: Download your free book, The Idea Virus, by Seth Godin
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Seth Godin is priceless. He is always giving away free advice from his blog and free books you can download, like this one called Unleashing The IdeaVirus. The best way to have your product our business succeed is having it spread like a virus. Quickly and penetrating everyone it comes in contact with. Is your new product viral? How can you make it viral? Read this book and move to the head of the class. Read this blog post for an example on how Seth got this book read by millions of people in a real life example of what he teaches you in his book.
