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HOW TO SAVE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS ON START-UP EXPENSES THANKS TO
NEVER GET A “REAL” JOB

 

As a thank-you for purchasing
Never Get a “Real” Job
and committing yourself to dumping your boss, tearing up your résumés, and starting a
real
business, my friends—some of today’s top small business service providers—and I have assembled a series of exclusive NGARJ offers, freebies, and discounts for you to help get your start-up on its feet—on the cheap.

 

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All the best along your journey,

 

Scott

 

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.

 

Index

 

Accountants

 

Accounts receivable

 

Advertising, online.
See also
Marketing

 

Advisors

 

Affiliate programs

 

American Express

 

Android

 

Angel investors

 

Angie’s List

 

AOL

 

Art of Non-Conformity, The
(Guillebeau)

 

Art of the Start, The
(Kawasaki)

 

Ask Gerber
(Web show)

 

Assets, personal

 

Authenticity, value of

 

Background checks.
See
Due diligence

 

Bankers

 

Banking

 

Barbie’s Birthday blowout

 

Bartering for services

 

Bear Sterns

 

Benefits.
See
Health benefits

 

Bing

 

Blodget, Henry

 

Blogger

 

Blogs

 

entrepreneur-oriented

 

guerrilla marketing

 

SEO via

 

Body language

 

Bonuses.
See
Incentives

 

Bookmarking, online

 

Boomerang Club, defined

 

Brand message

 

active

 

channels

 

vis-à-vis competitors’

 

conveying

 

distributing

 

diversifying

 

effective

 

optimizing

 

philanthropy and

 

protecting

 

via public relations

 

reactive

 

via social media

 

targeting

 

Branson, Richard

 

Brogan, Chris

 

Budgeting, personal

 

Bump

 

Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

Burn rate, life.
See
Life burn rate analysis

 

Business cards

 

Businesses, start-up.
See
Start-ups

 

Business Insider
(Blodget)

 

Business model, importance of

 

Business plans

 

avoiding traditional

 

caveats

 

one-paragraph method

 

BusinessWeek

 

Calls to action

 

Campbell, Anita

 

Cash flow

 

as first priority

 

tips for improving

 

Character issues

 

lying

 

partner assessment

 

Circuit City

 

Clark, Brian

 

CNN.com

 

College Hunks Hauling Junk

 

Colleges

 

author’s alma mater

 

as idea incubator

 

intern programs

 

unfulfilled promises of

 

Commission Junction

 

Communication issues

 

Companies.
See
Start-ups

 

“Company that shalt not be named”

 

business plan

 

cash flow problems

 

failure of

 

launching of

 

marketing flaws

 

mission misconception

 

sales errors

 

Compensation.
See
Wage issues

 

Competitors

 

in business plan

 

caveats

 

customers’ view of

 

monitoring social media of

 

reacting to

 

spying on

 

SWOT analysis and

 

Conference Board

 

Consultants, lunchtime

 

Contracts, sales

 

Conversation, as business catalyst

 

Copernic Tracker

 

Corporate ladder

 

Corporate structure

 

Cosper, Amy

 

Cost-benefit analysis, personal finances

 

Cost-cutting techniques

 

business

 

personal

 

Coupons, online

 

Cover letters

 

CPR analysis

 

Creativity, value of

 

in brand message

 

for business cards

 

in business plans

 

partner-related

 

product-related

 

Credit cards

 

Gen Y and

 

maximizing use of

 

online comparisons

 

partner-related

 

Criticism, soliciting

 

Crush It!
(Vaynerchuk)

 

Customers

 

in business plan

 

cues from

 

encouraging repeat

 

feedback from

 

impressing

 

incentivizing

 

as influencers (
see
Word-of-mouth)

 

link-swapping with

 

satisfying

 

targeting

 

Customer service

 

Data mining

 

Debt, personal

 

Gen Y stats

 

as investment drawback

 

managing

 

partner-related

 

Decision making, tips for

 

Delicious

 

Delivering Happiness
(Hsieh)

 

Demos, product

 

Department of Labor

 

Diet and exercise

 

Digg

 

Digital footprints, tracking.
See
Data mining

 

Documentation, sales

 

Document services, online

 

Domain names

 

Duct Tape Marketing
(Jantsch)

 

Due diligence

 

employee-related

 

investor-related

 

partnership

 

prospect-related

 

vendor-related

 

Economic Policy Institute

 

Education, myths

 

Ego issues

 

EIN number

 

E-mail

 

professional-looking

 

subject line

 

Employees

 

caveats

 

hiring tips

 

interns as

 

low-cost workforce

 

lunchtime consultants

 

one-callers

 

powerlessness of

 

virtual workforce

 

Employment

 

job satisfaction

 

post-college

 

Enron

 

Entitlement issues

 

Entrepreneur
magazine

 

Entrepreneurs

 

author’s challenge to

 

communication issues

 

lifestyle issues

 

productivity issues

 

resources for

 

self-discipline issues

 

Entrepreneurship

 

author’s view of

 

bare-bones

 

disincentivizing

 

versus employment

 

pitfalls of

 

preliminary tasks

 

Equity

 

Escape from Cubicle Nation
(Slim)

 

Evans, Sarah

 

Exit strategies, caveats

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