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Entrepreneur Magazine: May 2009

Cover Story
A Roundhouse Kick in the Pants
From blood sport of taking down the opponent with style, to winning your audience with fashion.

Features
Evolve
The old business methods won't work anymore. It's time to evolve.

Best in Business Travel
Where to invest your travel dollars this year

A New Take on Incubators
Today's incubators provide cutting-edge support for your startup

Age Against the Machine
Baby boomers: 76 million strong and a force to be reckoned with.

Editor's Note: The View From Inside the Ring
Entrepreneur's editor-in-chief gets a first-hand look at the passion of MMA culture.



Columns
Build a Website
Start a Blog For Your Business
Make sure you examine your business goals before jumping on the blogging bandwagon.

Build Your Brand
Referral Offers Your Customers Can't Refuse
A great product or service and inviting customer experience is essential to building a steady stream of referrals to your business.

College Startups
Go Virtual With Your Work Force
Outsourcing and virtual hiring can give you lower costs and enables you to work with talented employees all over the world.

Doing Good
The Power of Celebrity
A former internet entrepreneur found a way to link entertainment with entrepreneurship.

Employee X
Give us a Break
Checking personal e-mail, the latest news headlines or making personal phone calls does not a slacker make.

Franchise Ink
Baby-Sitter Referral Service Born of Necessity
This referral service does all the work for families looking for a baby-sitter.

How To
Think Like a Negotiator
Knowing how to negotiate is always important, especially when cash is tight.

Lead Strong
Hiring Temporary Talent
Temporary employment is expanding beyond the typical clerical assignment.

Make The Sale
Close the Deal With Urgency
Urgency is what gets top sellers up in the morning and keeps them fired up all day.

Opportunities
The Fruits of Their Labor
These smoothie franchisees are passing their energy on to their customers.

Personal Finance
Is Your Money Manager Scamming You?
It may be time to stop taking those longstanding relationships for granted.

Ten
10 Things Entrepreneurs Do When Nobody's Looking


The Success Coach
4 Ways to Expand Your Confidence
Confidence is a trait that must be nurtured by confronting fear.

VC Insider
What's Your Exit Strategy?
The right strategy will likely take care of itself at the appropriate time.

Wise Guy
10 Tips for Successful Bootstrapping
Getting venture capital should not be the end all source of financing. The key to success is bootstrapping.

Departments
Going Forward
Is Your Future in 'The Cloud'?
Virtual 'cloud' holding space is replacing hard-drive-based PC storage.

Make it Big--Locally
Taking your business far and wide doesn't have to mean crossing state lines or landing national accounts.

7 Non-Verbal Cues and What They (Probably) Mean
Body language experts translate common gestures into business vernacular.

Idea
Expand Your Customer Base With Coupons
Frugality is top of the mind for today's consumers.

5 Ways to Jump-Start Your Market Research
When launching a new company, researching the market is a must. Here's how to get started.

The Worst Ideas That Made Tons of Money
Sometimes it's better to be lucky than smart.

Money
Mobile Banking Tools
Plenty of banks offer you a number to call or a mobile website where you can check your balance.

Creative Ways to Get the Cash Flowing
In ordinary times, cash is merely king. When sales slump cash flow becomes emperor of the universe.

Start It Up
Loans for Local Producers
A new option for independent local producers.

You Can Still Find an Angel Investor
There will always be angel investors, in good times and bad.

Tech
Windows or Mac OS? You Don't Have to Choose.
Toggling between two operating systems and sharing data is a no-brainer.

Quiz: Blackberry or iPhone?
Take this quiz to decide whether a Blackberry or an iPhone is right for you.

Revamp Your IT for Serious Savings
With just a few tweaks, you can save a bundle on IT costs.

Web
You're Invited to Network
A VIP glimpse at three gated networks and how joining can offer lucrative networking opportunities.

The New Era of IM
Instant messaging has come a long way since the days of in-network AIM chatting.

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