Author Archives: Jaclyn Wells
Basic Training On Starting A Business
photo credit: TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ So you have made the first step and decided to start your own business, congratulations! Now you need to know what it takes to run your own business, resources, who to hire, how to market, and all of the other avenues that need to be explored. For now, I will [...]
Start And Grow A Very Successful Blog
photo credit: milena mihaylova Many business owners are coming to the realization that having a blog is a very powerful tool for their business to have in its corner, but many of them don’t really know how to start a blog or how to make it grow into something great for that matter. Choose your [...]
The Top Creative Business People In The World Today
photo credit: woodleywonderworks I recently came across an article naming the top 25 most creative business people in the world today. Some of them i found to be quite interesting and not someone that i would have ever thought of until i read this article. Below are a few of these top most creative [...]
Where To Look For A Great Business Idea
photo credit: werkunz1 When people start thinking about starting their own business, they wonder where to find a great business idea that will be as profitable as they would like. Many don’t realize there are about a dozen business ideas around their own home and property! Take your garage for example, there are several different [...]
photo credit: chanchan222 Many are up in arms about the recent announcement of Disney buying out the long time favorite Marvel comics. Many wonder what this will forecast for Marvels many characters in the future. Will they change drastically, will they get rid of some of the characters that people love? One sure thing about [...]
Right And Wrong Way To Hire People
photo credit: c h e e s e roc In today’s large unemployment line and as many businesses look to fill positions that they cut out during the toughest times, it is being seen that some guidelines are becoming obsolete in the hiring process. Businesses are just so eager to fill a much needed position [...]
Great Online Tools For Your Small Business
photo credit: Stabilo Boss With online businesses growing before our eyes, I feel it is important to provide these online business owners with as many tools to help them in their venture as possible. We all know that you can never have too many resources and helpful suggestions to fall back on. Below are [...]
photo credit: Stéfan I’ve never been much of a manager myself. That’s no big deal, of course; lots of people aren’t managers. In my case, though, people expected me to be, because I’ve had a lifetime of successful entrepreneurship. But entrepreneurship and management are different things. Stated on BPlans.com. I recently read over Tim Berry’s [...]
photo credit: madebytess When setting out to hire new talent for your company, the challenge of finding the absolute best there is can be very frustrating and time consuming. With so many people out of work today, you are bound to have hundreds of applications rolling in just for one position to fill! I [...]
Cut Your Costs Rather Than Your Employees
photo credit: lepiaf.geo In today’s economy we are seeing so many people being put out of work only to find that the company still ends up going bankrupt. Why is this? A big reason is because often times no matter how many employees are let go, the costs that the company has still ends [...]
photo credit: davitydave All business owners are constantly trying to find better, easier, and cost effective ways for obtaining more customers and thus increasing their profits greatly. I recently came across an article on Small Biz Bee that listed some ways to win more customers for free! Charities. Name Tags. Freebies. Better voicemails and voicemail [...]
Facebook Page Factors To Remember
photo credit: benstein Everyone is jumping on the Facebook train including businesses, at least if they are smart they are. There are tens of thousands of users on Facebook, that is a lot of contacts that you could be targeting for your company and bringing yourself a ton of traffic. However, when setting up [...]
photo credit: pfala In business it can become very difficult over the years to continuously manage your cash flow. Often times as business owners we get into a groove of letting things slide here and there, letting customers slide here and there, and before we know it our cash flow is much less than what [...]
Credit Building Mistakes For Businesses
photo credit: Logan Cyrus Most people don’t know the right way to go about building credit for their business. They do several things that might actually hinder their chances of obtaining credit, or they simply don’t do the simple things that would ensure their business credit. To help in light of the current credit crunch, [...]
photo credit: h.koppdelaney With so many trials and tribulations in the world today with cancer, paralysis, kidney disease, poverty and more, everyone continues praying for big ideas to come on how to fix our many problems. Here is a list of some ideas I recently came across on AOL Small Business that are sure [...]
photo credit: kristafurry So you have decided to take the step out of your 9-5 job and become an entrepreneur. First, congratulations on your new venture. Second, there are some things about being an entrepreneur that you should know and realize what you are about to get yourself into. Being an entrepreneur means loving day [...]
photo credit: fdecomite In today’s outstanding technology based world, many businesses especially small businesses are crossing over to the virtual world of business. With so many web based applications and free or low cost web based programs it is now possible to work wherever you want via the Internet. The virtual office presents two opportunities: [...]
Boost Your Courage To Close With Confidence
photo credit: Mi Pah In sales it can be very difficult to not only make your pitch perfect but to also ask for the closing deal at the end of your pitch. People today are more concerned with where their money is going, if they truly NEED this product or service you are selling, and [...]
photo credit: Christy C As employers we all know that when it comes to hiring employees, especially today with so many people out of work trying to find a job, it is a very daunting task. It sometimes seems as though anyone will walk in off the street and hand in an application for any [...]
Mistakes That Effect Your Freelance Success
photo credit: aussiegall Are you a freelancer who seems to hit a wall every avenue that you turn down? Does it seem like no matter what you do during your day something always goes wrong and you just don’t have the success that you think you should? Maybe your making one or more of [...]
photo credit: barto We all communicate with several people everyday, all day long, on a regular basis. But how do we know if we’re communicating in a proper and understandable way? There are 3 main types of communication, stated on Sales Management 2.0, to which all communication falls into one of those 3 categories. [...]
Reading Business Books Is Your Future
photo credit: Dawn Endico If you’re thinking about starting your own business, then you really should be thinking about what business books you need to be checking out of the library or buying on amazon.com. Famous business men such as Donald Trump and Warren Buffet have both said that reading business books are key to [...]
Communication Powers Your Performance
photo credit: Torley I came across an article located on Open Forum that talks about how your communication skills give power to your performance. Depending on how you communicate with your staff, team, boss and more, will depend on the performance outcome. Have you ever had a business situation where someone is describing something like [...]
photo credit: Gunnar Wrobel It makes sense to buy a franchise with proven methods, marketing, and product rather than start your own from scratch right? But when getting ready to sign that contract, how do you know that the contract is completely truthful? Below are some franchise contract time bombs to look out for. [...]
Manage Your Attention Rather Than Your Time
photo credit: fdecomite We are always on the look out for ways to better manage our time. The problem with that is we don’t realize that time is fixed for everyone, you can not “make” more time, you can not get back lost time. “The myth of time management never dies. Many people enroll in [...]
Generate High Quality Leads Your Sales People Will Love
photo credit: myuibe Ask most executives and marketers what sales people need to sell in this economy and they will say, “more leads.” So their marketing and lead generation focuses on getting MORE leads to their sales team. The problem with simply creating more leads for your sales team is that they may not necessarily [...]
photo credit: batega We all know how prominent business debt is becoming in this economy. Granted we are seeing some relief here and there, but no where near enough yet. Below are two awesome ways your business can cut it’s debt and stay above water! Be realistic on staffing. Although the last thing most business [...]
photo credit: brunkfordbraun Many people today are contemplating the idea of becoming their own boss and starting up their own business. This can be a wonderful idea for them, that is if they truly have what it takes to be their own boss and own their own business. Here are some of the most common [...]
Great Entrepreneur Tools For Internet Businesses
photo credit: geishaboy500 Anyone who owns their own business on the Internet knows what a hectic challenge it can be at times. We all know that the more help and tools we have to keep our business running smoothly the better. So I have put together a little list below containing some great tools for [...]
Creating A Smoking Personal Brand
photo credit: neilbetter When creating your own personal brand it is vitally important to make that brand stand out, catch the attention of your audience immediately and cause them to be so interested in the product or services your selling that they almost can’t resist the urge to buy them. So how does one [...]
photo credit: kekremsi In business we try everything within our means to stay above water, keep the money coming in, and keep our doors open but sometimes there are unforeseeable circumstances that become greater than our means to make it through. I ran across an article posted on AOL Small Business that I found to [...]
Employer-Employee Lessons Learned
photo credit: Svadilfari I recently read an article by Tim Berry that I found to be very interesting. It talks about lessons learned over the years by employer to employee relations. When employers are working with employees, it is no surprise that there will always be some bumping of the heads and even some bad [...]
Get The Most Out Of Social Media Marketing
photo credit: Travis Isaacs It is no secret that social media marketing is becoming more of a prevalent aspect to businesses today. With so many people practically living on a computer of some sort it makes sense to target these markets as much as possible to gain more traffic, clients, and profits. Below are some [...]
Don’t Kill Your Readers With Clutter
photo credit: jluster Many websites that I’ve visited have so much stuff on them, such as long drawn out information, ads over lapping each other, glitter, stories and so on, that I find it easier to just move on to a much cleaner and easier to read site rather than spend hours sifting through [...]
Mistakes Commonly Made In Measuring Social Media ROI
photo credit: Pink Sherbet Photography The reason why you first embarked on this journey is because you think it will benefit your business and bring you returns. The biggest mistake you can make in social media marketing is failure to measure these returns. We have seen how to measure social media ROI but what [...]
photo credit: doug.siefken It is always difficult to have to let go of an employee. Even when the employee has not exactly been a “good fit” for the company, it is still not a task that anyone truly looks forward to doing. So how does a manager go about making this task not only easier [...]
Useful Presentation Tools For Marketing
photo credit: MGShelton When putting together a presentation it can be agitating trying to figure out the best tools to use and the best way to put it all together so it will not only keep everyones attention but will also look professional and run smoothly. Below are some extremely useful tools that are [...]
Building Your Community On Your Site
photo credit: woodleywonderworks Having an active community behind you can increase sales, build your brand, and serve as your very own volunteer promotional army to help get your word out. But how do you go about creating one? How do you jump start that feeling of community on your site so that you’re able to [...]
Simplify Your Day With Two Steps
photo credit: arquera More often than not our days are hectic, stressful, and complicated when they don’t need to be, and we are usually the cause of it. Here are two very simple steps I recently read about on Harvard Business in making your day simpler. Start with your own actions and behavior. Think about all of [...]
Challenges That Social Media Bring To Business
photo credit: country_boy_shane The use of social media is definitely on the rise. Social media has an impact on almost every aspect of business, and sadly many employees have been fired due to the miss use of it. The problem is that social media is so easy, effective, and located everywhere throughout your company. [...]
Create Sales From Customer Calls
photo credit: StephenMitchell Some business owners, as well as their employees, see customer calls as a hassle, a potential for disaster. However, Small Biz Technology had an interesting point of view on customer calls. It was stated that there is a way for you to turn these calls into more sales for your company. FonGenie provides [...]
photo credit: jonfeinstein Fact is, you can get all of the fundamentals right and still end up with a lousy headline. Sometimes, the only way to improve isn’t being told what to do… it’s being told what not to do. Below are quite a few “don’ts” when writing your headlines that I recently came across [...]
Top Trends That Could Be Turned Into A Business
photo credit: JerrytheSaint There are so many new trends taking off and sticking that it is a wonder why so many more businesses are not going up as a result of it. One of the best things to do with a popular trend is to turn it into a great business venture. Below are [...]
Best Sites For Figuring Out Small Biz Social Media
photo credit: Robert S. Donovan There are probably a million websites on the web that tout solutions for marketing and promoting your business online. When you are getting started it can be very difficult to know who the true professionals are and it can take months to figure out where the high quality information is [...]
Twitter’s Growth Can’t Be Stopped
photo credit: hellfroze It’s no secret to anyone that Twitter continues to grow more and more with every day that goes by. Many wonder why Twitter is so huge, and why the growth of Twitter has not even so much as slowed down in the least. There are many good and valid reasons as [...]
photo credit: Cosmic Kitty Many marketers are not in favor of discounting, in fact many of them hate it and do not recommend it. If you still insist on discounting, they do have some ground rules for discounting properly that I have to agree with. Look below to see some basic rules for discounting recently [...]
Working With Your Virtual Assistant
photo credit: antjeverena In today’s world of technology, booming Internet applications, and businesses, many online business owners are going out and finding themselves a VA (Virtual Assistant). There are many different aspects to having a VA versus a regular assistant. Open Forum recently listed some thing’s to remember when working with your VA. You [...]
photo credit: luc legay Many business owners are looking for ways to grow their profits every year. They keep hoping there will be easier ways to see their profits go up on their charts, but sadly many of them don’t know of any easy ways to help their profits grow. Below are some tips on [...]
Does Starting A Business Make You Feel Crazy?
photo credit: Emery_Way When starting a new business, through all the transitions and setting up, many people sit down and begin to wonder if they are truly going crazy. This is a normal feeling when starting a business as stated on Open Forum. Starting a business makes everyone at some point think they are [...]
How To Keep Your Great Employees
photo credit: ArtemFinland Many businesses today have quite a few great employees that they want to keep on their staff, but they can not necessarily offer them more money. Many think that if they can’t offer more money, those employees will walk. Some might if more money is a need of theirs, but some [...]
