Every small business should have developed a business plan for 2010 by now. If you haven’t set goals, action plans, employee accountability, and timetables, then you’re like the blindfolded archer shooting at a target.
Part of the business plan is a marketing plan that looks back at what worked and didn’t work in 2009. Taking these [...]
Marketing a Local Business Online
When I first started internet marketing, I looked for national and international companies to promote. I thought that the potential of the World Wide Web would be greatest for companies that could service people from all over the US, or even all over the world. But I missed the power of [...]
When I was in college I worked selling clothes in a menswear shop. When I started, my natural approach to a customer was the common phrase”Can I help you?” to which I would get the common phrase “No thank you, just looking.”
I soon learned that if I wanted to engage the customer I needed to [...]
Do you create music and sell online? Maybe you sell on Spotify, Last.fm or some other online service. Maybe you have a band who tours small towns and mostly play on bars and don’t sell any CD:s. Well – either way, this article is for you.
I take examples from the Swedish electronic artist Pingo® who [...]
Britain is obsessed with Twitter…starting life in 2006 as a research project at US podcasting company Odeo the site has replaced Facebook as the social networking tool du jour letting users fire off missives of (“tweets”) of no more than 140 characters. Many rich, famous celebrities have embraced Twitter – Stephen Fry, I believe, is [...]
Have you ever wondered why it is good to buy an internet business? When you buy an online business, you get to have easy and efficient money making activities online. It is very cost-effective and there is good potential to earn big. It is no wonder a lot of people are looking into this newfangled [...]
If used correctly, Twitter can be a great communication tool for your company to get its message out to clients and customers. It can also have a negative effect if not used correctly, especially if you don’t check your profile regularly and post frequent tweets. In this article I will give you a simple guide [...]
We’ve always wanted to make money anywhere, anytime and Facebook can be a good deal of source for that matter. With its huge network of users, you can easily market your product with minimal to zero cost. But this money making strategy can be hampered when facebook is actually blocked by your system administrator. This [...]
Page ranking is the basis of how search engines operate. By giving each page a rating based on the page’s quality and relevancy, search engines can begin to differentiate between quality sites and inferior sites. Through SEO practices, a company will improve their overall quality and thus improve their ranking in search engines. Since search [...]
Micro Businesses play a very important role in ensuring the processes of economic growth. They are employment-friendly, generating more and more employment especially rural and urban areas and they contribute to greater regional balance in levels of development.
According to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development (MSMED) Act, 2006, an organization will be called Micro Business, [...]
