Archive for July 6th, 2009
Building Business Credit In 2009
photo credit: apesara Many business owners don’t even truly understand the difference between business and personal credit, nor do they generally understand how each one is tracked and obtained. A lot of time we see business owners take what they feel is the easy route and just use their personal credit for business. Below [...]
photo credit: joiseyshowaa When we work for ourselves or are the owners of a company, we need to remember that we make the rules now, we no longer have to stick to the typical 9-5 hours of operation if we don’t want to. We no longer have to stick to the timeless classic of a [...]
photo credit: ChiBart In business we all know that our customers are our “bread and butter”, they are what keeps us alive in business and doing well. The more customers we have, the better we are doing, the less customers we have, the worse we are doing. It’s common sense. So in spirit of our [...]
photo credit: Nico Kaiser In our world of rapid growing technology and the fact that a large number of business owners do business outside of their office on all sorts of devices, I feel the need to post an article regarding mobile marketing and it’s benefits. We all know that marketing in general is important [...]
Are You Sure Your Customers See You?
photo credit: helgabj While Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and blogging are great tools for communicating quickly and reaching a wider audience and will help to increase your visibility, they work best when done in addition to some of the more traditional marketing methods. Try writing a monthly newsletter to update them on you and your company [...]
photo credit: TheeErin Customer loyalty for a small business is as much about brand perception as it is about brand behavior. Your loyalty efforts can go a long way towards bringing people back into your store, but you can’t expect their return alone to bring profits. For that you need to continue driving value, service [...]
T-Shirt Comes With Free Music Downloads
Springwise: Much the way Webkinz pets are more than just stuffed animals, so t-shirts can be more than just t-shirts when they forge links to the online world. The conversation-starters offered by Reactee, Shyno and Augme are one type of example; now bringing a new purpose to such connections comes The Music Tee, a shirt [...]
photo credit: kevindooley Today businesses are sorting through a stack of employment applications wondering which ones will be the best choice for their company. The more applicants makes it harder to choose whom you think will be the best fit not just for the company but for the current employees as well. Here are [...]
Fortune Small Business: Matthew Fitch learned it the hard way: Sometimes you’ve got to look — twice! — before you leap. Fitch, 38, is the owner of Aerial Adventures Demos in Hopewell, Va., one of a handful of national parachuting companies that drop skydivers into outdoor events, with clients including San Francisco’s Emerald Bowl and [...]
Bootstrapping a Rental Company
photo credit: wohnai Chegg is a textbook rental website, and they began renting boks before it actually owned any! When an order came in, its employees would surf the Web to find a cheap copy. They would buy the book using Mr. Rashid’s American Express card and have it shipped to the student. Eventually, Chegg [...]
Small Business Benefiting From Unemployment
photo credit: Pink Sherbet Photography Yes it is tragic when we continue to see the unemployment rate rise every month, it is depressing for most of us and stressful wondering if our job is the next to get cut. However, small business is actually benefiting from the high rise in unemployment, and we all know [...]
Entrepreneur: Without a doubt, an entrepreneur’s biggest fear is failing–understandably, because 95 percent of all businesses fail within the first five years, Colleen Long, a psychologist who specializes in entrepreneurship, says. When you’re starting with those kinds of odds, it’s OK to be a little freaked out. The list of what-ifs is endless: What if [...]
Helpful Tools For Working Offline
photo credit: trekkyandy Consulting Pulse posted an article that I felt brought up a very good point. While today we can stay connected to more people in more ways and places than our parents ever could have, we still shouldn’t rely just on online tools to do business. You never know when your computer will [...]
Two States Think Better Of Imposing Sales Taxes On E-Retailers
Internet Retailer: Threats by retailers to cut off affiliate marketing relationships in states that are trying to tax sales generated by affiliates have had an effect. The governors of California and Hawaii have vetoed legislation that would have imposed such taxes in those states. The governors acted after such major online retailers as Amazon.com Inc., [...]
Why You Should Get A Free Phone Number
photo credit: SimonDoggett Many of us think that in order to have a legitimate working phone number we have to sign up for a long contract and pay an outrageous amount of money for it. This is not necessarily true in all cases. Google Voice offers a free legitimate working phone number that you would [...]
How to Write an Ebook that Sells
Copyblogger has done a great review of How to Launch the **** Out of Your Ebook In five concise modules, How to Launch covers the entire process of writing an ebook that sells. How to research your market in 30 minutes or less. (If you don’t get this part right, you’re dead before you begin.) [...]
Last Friday, we ran a fun poll to find the ‘fake’ twitter app. Three readers got the correct answer, Twitletter. The other listings were actual Twitter applications. Twaitter is a tweet scheduling program. Twititon allows you to create a petition that people then use their Twitter username to vote on. Tweepular calls itself the ultimate [...]
How to Fund Your First Business
photo credit: pfala Adam McFarland, is the 26 year old founder of Pure Adapt, a company that designs, develops, markets, and operates e-commerce stores and other websites in an array of industries. Here’s his advice for funding your first business: Get a non-career job where you can work 30 – 40 hours/week and make enough [...]
ABC30: Sidney Miller’s friends have always praised her cookies. So when her corporate job gave out, she went to work in the kitchen. “So I’m out of a job and in the back of my mind I’m like, because why not?” said Miller. She started by using her Facebook friends to test the market and [...]
