Greg Cangialosi, president and CEO of email service provider Blue Sky Factory, started his company with a few thousand dollars in 2001, just in time to get caught in the fallout of the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Yet Cangialosi has seen Blue Sky grow each year since its founding, through two of the toughest economic time periods the United States has seen in 30 years. How did he do it? Here are some of Cangiolosi’s top tips for launching a new business straight to the top: More…

It’s hard to do business if you’re stuck in bed with the flu or a nasty respiratory infection. If you travel a lot for business, you are exposed to more germs and are generally more susceptible to viruses and infections because your travel schedule often gives your immune system a beating.

If your business depends on you being on the road, you can’t afford to neglect your health. There are many easy ways to help boost your health and therefore your profits by creating good travel habits. WEALTH magazine asked some road warriors who travel at least once a week what their top piece of advice is for staying healthy on the road. We offer them to you. Happy travels! More…

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a big phrase that simply means you want to design your website so that it comes up first on Google or other search engines when Internet users search for any of the key terms related to your business. SEO is big business, but there are many free things you can do on your own to maximize your website’s reach and impact.

Here are 14 ways to get your site ready for search engine “spiders” or “crawlers” (the programs that scan the entire web and collect pieces of information from different sites to add to search engines) to find and like you.

1. It can’t be said too many times: Content is king on the Internet. You have to have quality content in your text, ads, links and pages to rank well. More…

Greg Cangialosi started Blue Sky Factory, a leading email-service provider, in 2001 with an initial investment of “only a couple thousand dollars,” he admits.

“We started in 2001, when getting investors wasn’t even possible [due to the 9/11 terrorist attacks],” the president and CEO tells WEALTH magazine. “We had no choice but to bootstrap it. We launched without any venture capital and grew it organically. We did $3.6 million [in 2008] and are on track to do $5 million [in 2009].” More…

Forty-four-year-old multimillionaire Paul Graham has developed computer programs that changed the World Wide Web, studied art in foreign countries, written critically acclaimed books and blog entries and developed programs with hackers who have been honored by top universities and investigated by the Feds. He has amassed a small fortune because of his technological talent and spent some of it helping other programmers get off the ground. Still, this talented entrepreneur describes himself as a “nerd.” He was in the chess club in high school and sat at a table of outcasts in the lunch room.  More…

With real estate going for bargain prices in most of the country, it may be the perfect time to pick up some rental houses. But becoming a landlord means you need to find and keep tenants. You can enlist the federal government’s help by renting to people with Housing Choice Vouchers (formerly called Section and letting Washington help pay the monthly rent. More…

In a Financial Upturn, Recovery of Mindset Is Most Important

Between October 2007 and March 2009, the U.S. stock market plummeted 55 percent. And during this time, as noted by Jason Zweig in The Wall Street Journal, the vast majority of 401(k) investors made no adjustments to their portfolios. 

And then, in early March 2009, some of these “sitting bulls” finally bailed from the market as fear reached a fever pitch and some experts were warning that the next big drop was just around the corner. More…

The obvious key to sales success is closing the deal, getting the potential customer or client to “yes.” And the way you do that is through the art of compromise, never letting them see you sweat, and high-powered pitching until they sign on the dotted line. Right?

Not so much anymore. Sales tactics with today’s economically battle-weary clients and customers must be different, and veteran coach and author Jim Camp says he has the keys to sales success: More…

Not many of us think about it on a daily basis, but color impacts our lives and businesses in many ways. In fact, there’s a whole psychology and science of color theory and the way it affects brand recognition, moods, and decision-making.

So what color is your world? How about your home, your office, and your business? Have you thought about how those colors are impacting your customers, your clients, and your life? More…

Your brain is like any muscle in your body. If you use it, you are less likely to “lose” it. If you would like your memory to improve, here are eight ways to boost your brain power.

1.  Get seven to eight hours of sleep. If you are overtired, you forget things more easily. Your brain needs rest in order to function at its peak. More…