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 Some employers are using the Internet to check up on potential employees before making hiring decisions, but did you realize that potential clients could be checking up on small business owners, too? Making sure you know what is being said about you and your company on the Internet should be a regular part of your business activities. Use these three tips to keep track of your online brand:
- Create a Google alert of your name, company name and web site address. Google will send you an email daily, weekly or as it happens when one of your search items is found on someone’s web site,
 Summer is almost over, but it's not too late to implement these 3 summer business building tips. Dequiana Brooks, of Inspired Graphics Media, offers tips to keep your sales high during the hottest months of the year.
For many small business owners, summer represents a slump in sales. Many of our potential customers are more interested in vacations and outdoor activities than in office meetings and store visits. Rather than let your sales suffer, follow these 3 business building tips to give your company a boost this summer: - Head outside with your products or services. Many
Small business owners love clients. They are the lifeblood of the company and ensure that employees are paid and the office lights are kept on. However, there are some customers that entrepreneurs can do without. Are you one of them? Read on for the top 5 small business pet peeves and how to avoid them: 1. Not paying on time. This is likely the biggest pet peeve of all as it is a violation of trust. The small business owner trusted that if he or she provided a product or service, it would be paid for in a timely manner. By ignoring invoice reminders and missed payment phone
I want to do pro bono design work for small black-owned business who want it. I know it's a recession and all, but there are places where I'm required to give back. Confidence, creativity and consistency are so key in this day and age. In a world where jobs and recessionary living are matters of conscience, small business owners are losing confidence, but there are still people out there (like me) willing to chase their self-employment and entrepreneurial dreams (Hey, IF YOU CAN'T FIND A JOB, MAKE ONE!). The LA Times recounted a recent poll where small business owners said they aren't too
Here is a simple tip that many excited entrepreneurs forget: your product or service MUST help somebody... preferably a large group of somebodies. In other words, to be successful, your product or service must meet a consumer's unmet need. To make it more clear: a person has a problem, and you have the means to fix it! Think of it as the difference between "push marketing" and "pull marketing." With the push method, a company has a great idea for a product or service, develops it, and then unleashes it on the world. There has likely been little to no consumer market research, so
I am always sadly amazed by the numbers of people I see at the seasonal Tax Preparers. Not to imply that I wish the preparers any ill will; oh no, in fact I know many of them here in my town. They, like me, are just trying to earn an honest dollar. I do however have a few concerns that many of their clients hold some misconceptions about the tax codes that are not being considered.
Part of what makes America Great is that the laws that govern us were written based on a sense of reality that rises and falls in popularity polls, but holds true over time and is part of the fabric of the
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As 2010 arrived I prepared for it with excitement seeing this new decade as an opportunity to achieve new goals and establish new commitments to myself. I also had the belief that I was not alone and many others shared this New Year excitement, and would be hitting the internet like an explosion marketing their products, businesses and services with a vigor unseen. I braced myself for an email explosion and great competition in the market place but as the first of January rolled in, then the second and third day, things have been relatively quiet. I began to wonder had internet
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