About Young Entrepreneur Council

Authored 4 articles.

The Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) is an invite-only nonprofit organization comprised of the country’s most promising young entrepreneurs. The Young Entrepreneur membership gets access to tools, mentorship, and resources that support each stage of a business’s development and growth.

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  • 11 Tips for Creating Performance-Based Bonuses

    Features, March 10, 2015

    Figuring out how to compensate sales staff is easy — how much in sales did they do last quarter! But what about for your other employees? The rest of your team works just as hard, but their metrics-driven results can be more difficult to gauge. So we posed the question: “What one tip do you have for creating performance-based bonuses for non-sales staff ?”

  • 11 Ways to Engage Customers With Your Website

    Features, February 16, 2015

    Offering valuable advice and information to prospects through your company blog is one of the best things you can do for your business. However, it can often be tough to get your clients or customers engaged with your work. To find out how other business owners gain leads with their content marketing and blogging programs, we asked the following question: “What are some ways to engage customers and get them actively reading my business blog?”

  • 13 Best Practices for Building Solid Small Business Operations

    Features, June 19, 2014

    Running and scaling a business will always be challenging. But having a solid foundation of smoothly operating practices underlying your company can make it much easier. To find out how successful entrepreneurs were building their operations, we asked 13 founders from Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) the following question: “As a business owner, what do you feel is most important when it comes to building solid small business operations?”

  • 12 Tips for Training Your Summer Interns

    Features, June 16, 2014

    Summer interns can be an invaluable resource for a small business. But although these bright young college kids are ready to tackle challenges, they’re likely inexperienced in the business world and won’t automatically integrate with your team. We look at how other entrepreneurs were successfully training their interns for the summer.