Starting an new online small business can be a daunting task. From finding a web hosting company, to building a well designed business website to generating traffic, there is much to learn. Topics could include website design do's and...
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Starting an new online small business can be a daunting task. From finding a web hosting company, to building a well designed business website to generating traffic, there is much to learn. Topics could include website design do's and don't, search engine marketing, search engine optimization, blogging and affiliate marketing.
Welcome to the April 5, 2008 edition of Carnival of Sales & Management Success. This week there were 39 submissions and I cut the list down to 19 for you reading pleasure! I'm sorry this is getting posted a day late, but I had a touch of the flu and was too sick to BLOG! Can you believe that! One whole day with no Internet! Anyways, I am feeling a bit better today and will have another post or two ready this week. Enjoy this weeks carnival and please feel free to let me know what you think... Read Full Story
Welcome to the March 1, 2008 edition of Carnival of Sales & Management Success.
Charles H. Green presents Trust Is the New Leadership In A Flat World posted at Trust Matters , saying, "In a flat world your suppliers and customers are your partners, and leadership requires building trust."
Sagar presents Look on the Bright Side: 100 Tiny Tips to Improve Your Mood posted at Bootstrapper .
Martin Russell presents 5 Keys To Word of Mouth Marketing posted at Word of Mouth Marketing... Read Full Story
When running a business it is very important to have a clarified, written statement on where the company is going. It is also very important to specify how its going
to get there. Many small businesses think
that just because they only have a hand full of employees they don’t need a
strategic plan. This is not true. When writing your business plan you should
invite all of your employees to participate.
This will form teamwork within
the company and give the employee motivation to work hard... Read Full Story
I have just come through some heavy duty weeks of development to launch our new product and so finally I have a little time to take stock and breathe in and out. So, I have had a few days to review the past few weeks and months and analyse the goings on in the company I work for and others in general. The result of my pondering was a blog article I wrote entitled “ Businesses are like engine components – that argue with each other ” giving the analogy of a businesses similarity to the... Read Full Story
One of my clients taught me a great lesson about selling, branding and marketing. Sometimes, in our quest to find revenue, we forget something more important - trust.
Our goal as an organization is to deliver on our commitments reliably and predictably. By doing so, we build the trust needed to sustain a healthy relationship for many years. The sum of these healthy relationships is a strong brand. A strong brand is evidenced by happy customers.
At Macon Raine , we put skin in the game... Read Full Story
We hunted for mouse killers and we found where they hang out. Search Engines, Blogs and content websites about mouse killing seem to be favorites. We also see that we need content and other shiny objects to attract them into our website. Lets look at viral/social marketing as the first or our shiny objects. Unlike the name, viral marketing is not about making your potential customers sick. Rather, its about making word of your great mouse trap, or other products, spread like a virus... Read Full Story
Here's part of a great article recently posted on VirtualHosting.com . We've included a few of the resources here, but the full article includes 100. Todays online culture of banking, blogging, social networking and shopping makes it easier than ever for those with nefarious intentions to steal your personal information. Social Security numbers, credit cards and online passwords are all at risk if you dont keep your personal information secure both online and off. While there is no way to... Read Full Story
Ahhh... the Power of Cheese... er, Keywords.... If you're following along with this blog you realize that our tale of the online Mouse Trap seller is coming to a close. To wrap it all up we're going to review what we've learned and of course offer up a couple more shameless plugs. (hopefully subtly....). During the course of our story, we've learned that even though the Internet offers some great advantages for small business owners, selling online is really not all that different from... Read Full Story
As an internet consultant working with small and micro businesses, I get to see a lot of websites and online businesses that are in their infancy. The most common question I get is Ive bought or built this great online store but no-one is buying anything. What do I do now? Unfortunately, in lots of cases the question comes too late to avoid either significant losses (time or money) or much frustration. What I find is that many new online store owners think that if they build a great website... Read Full Story
(Here’s an article of great value to small business owners, www.GBN-Online.com )
If you’re a small business owner, you probably don’t have a lot to spend on marketing. That’s okay, many small businesses aren’t taking full advantage of the many opportunities they have for marketing their business in basic ways that cost little or nothing to implement.
There are a number of things you can do to leverage your existing contact points with prospects and customers that require some initial... Read Full Story
