The world of business has changed since generations past. Way back in the day, technology seemed to move at a leisurely pace, and the biggest advance over the course of decades was the manual credit card imprinter. Yes, littler more than a few signs in the storefront window advertising low […]
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Basic Brand Awareness Strategies
Raising brand awareness is not difficult if a combination of the traditional and nouveau methods are employed to accomplish the task. Marketing methods for building brand awareness are endless, only limited by the creativity you employ when you're building your brand awareness strategy. We'll get into more advanced methods of […]
Tax Advice for Small Businesses
As a small business owner, you don't always have access to the tax advice that bigger companies get. I've decided to put together a basic information pack for the small time business owner and employer, to give you a window into the savings you could be making. Good luck! Running […]
When Your Small Business Needs a Fast Financial Solution
As many of us have are well aware, the current economic climate, although in recovery in the UK, can still make the going tough for small businesses. In order to maintain a smooth running operation, you sometimes need a fast financial solution to help your business to expand and succeed, […]
Boost Your Sales During The Holiday Season
The biggest shopping season of the year is upon us and on cue, retailers are revving up their marketing strategies in attempt to take advantage of the spending frenzy. Whether you sell to customers online, in the real world, or through a combination of both, the opportunities to cash in […]
Recommended Investments to Make for Your Small Business in 2014
With 2014 almost here, small business owners who are looking to get a jump on the new year are knee-deep in their planning stages for January 1st and onward. While it’s important to look back on what worked (and how you might be able to streamline it), it’s also crucial […]
How a Small Business Should Deal with Being Sued
Litigation can be the death knell for a small company, with pricey legal fees playing havoc with your overheads. That's why it's important to know exactly what steps to take if such an event arises. And, although you should ideally have a plan in place to prevent such issues arising […]
How to Increase the Traffic to Your E-commerce Website and Make it Effective
So let's say you have a store. It's nothing fancy, just a small little corner store where you sell this and that. Things have been going well ever since you first opened shop about 20 years ago, but you've starting to notice something. All of your competitors (the other this […]
Business Card Tactics for Small Businesses
Take your business card out of your wallet and look closely at it. Are you marveling at its power? No? Maybe you should. If I had to choose just one marketing tool to use the rest of my career, it would be the business card. This little Swiss Army knife […]
Google Services for Small Business
Almost everyone around the world knows Google as the number one search engine, but Google is more than a search engine. It offers more products and almost all of them are free or some require a very small fee. I don't think there is someone out there who doesn't like […]
The Small Business Guide to IT Support
When computers go wrong it's almost guaranteed to be at the most inconvenient time. Since modern businesses rely more than ever on information technology, it is vitally important that as an owner or manager you have someone you can call on to sort out problems fast. How do you go […]
Common SEO Tasks Small Businesses Must Do Every Month
Many onsite SEO discussions are dominated by the technical debates in regards to how the search engines analyze plus store HTML. For the small business owners, this discussion is a bit more practical and also very alarming. This is because, many small business websites perform a very poor in-site SEO […]