Most small businesses start today as a side hustle first. In fact, 1 in 3 Americans is a freelancer or temporary worker in the post-recession era, according to research by the Human Capital Institute (HCI). The majority of contract workers are part-timers, and their ranks are growing at more than twice the rate of full-time employees, […]
How to Communicate Your Business Vision
As a business leader, it’s your job to craft a vision for your business. Once you know what that is, you need to be able to communicate it to a wide audience including your customers and your employees. Even the interns need to know. Why? Because your need to share a vision that everyone understands, […]
How to do Facebook Ads for Business
On Facebook, 850 million people spend more than 350 minutes a month hanging out online. To some, it may be how they keep in touch with college friends, the way new moms share photos with family, or where sports fans go to cheer on their team and connect with other fans around the world. […]
How Do I Get New Customers Part 1
So often I am asked about how to get new customers that I decided to develop a two part series on the topic. No customers, no business. A simple and obvious fact, which leads new business owners to ask the question “How do I get customers to see and buy from my business?” The […]
How to Get New Customers Part II
There are numerous ways of getting new customers but not all methods are applicable to all businesses. I also need to remind you that getting repeat business from your existing customers is far easier than attracting new customers, but it is important to have a strategy for getting new customers in the door. In Part […]
Budgeting Tips for Small Business Owners
If your fiscal year parallels your wall calendar, then you made it through Q-1 or as you may formally call it, the first quarter. Perhaps you’re feeling optimistic about the goals you’ll accomplish this year, or are concerned about your revenue goals for the second quarter. It’s best to look at where you’ve been to […]
5 Steps to Take Online Before Launching Your Small Business
The fast-moving flow of information in social media can be intimidating to even the most computer-savvy among us. To a budding small business owner, it can be daunting. Yet if you want your business to succeed, you can’t afford to ignore that world. Fortunately, there is a way to conquer that world and make it […]
How to Keep People From Leaving Your Website
It doesn’t matter how much website traffic you’re getting, if those visits aren’t yielding positive results for your business, what is the point? After spending time, energy, money and love on your website it can be frustrating when it doesn’t start paying you back. Here are a few ways to diagnose what’s happening and how […]
Best Practices for Lead Generation in a Small Business
Sponsored Post Are you struggling to figure out how to generate new leads in your business? Well Yahoo! Small Business @ysmallbusiness will be sponsoring a live Tweet Chat with me, @SmallBizLady, on Twitter Thursday June 28th from 3:30-4:30 ET to help you with this challenge. Yahoo! recently launched a free Marketing Dashboard to help SMBs […]
How to Get Started Blogging
This is the first article of a three part series on blogging, which is a terrific way to promote your small business. It is such a low cost and effective way to market your business to your target customer and raise your thought leadership in your industry. The series will focus on How to Get Started […]
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