Archive for November 1st, 2006
Improving Your Online Sales Conversion Rate
Jennifer Baljko at Work.com: You’ve set up an Web site, developed some marketing efforts to bring in traffic and are seeing the number of page views increase. But are you converting your Web site visitors into customers?It’s time to work on your sales conversion rate, in other words, the number of visitors to your site [...]
Don’t Invent A Business, Buy One
Greg Brown at Work.com: Turn-key businesses come in several flavors, including business opportunities, franchises and existing businesses for sale. Getting the right fit for you is a matter of personality, but also of cash and your own patience. Here’s how to pick the right path: Consider becoming a rep, dealer or agent for a well-known [...]
Unusual Businesses Ideas That Work: Working as a stock analyst in Atlanta, Lee Loree, was bored. While reading dull reports at night, he noticed his slumber-ing wife was more alert at certain times. Curious, he started studying sleep cycles. His research and the desire to rouse his workaday routine led to the Sleeptracker, a watch [...]
Small Biz Resource: Import and Export Information
Entrepreneurs Suite101: You’ve decided your small business would benefit from importing, exporting, or some combination thereof. You have a list of questions, ideas and experiences, but need more information to move forward. If by chance you are an entrepreneur looking to get the basics regarding importing and exporting, please read our import/export series primer on [...]
Big Idea Scoop: Colorado Inventor Showcase The Da Vinci Institute is giving inventors a forum to showcase their inventions. Set for November 14 at The Cable Center in Denver, the Colorado Inventor Showcase lets inventors display their product(s), competing for prizes in a number of invention categories. In addition, inventors can attend information sessions and [...]
