5 Ways To Find & Acquire Customers On Twitter

Emerging platforms create new opportunities to find and acquire the lifeblood of your business—customers. Twitter is the breakthrough product of 2009 because of its unique ability to create lightweight and fluid conversation—in near real time—around just about any topic.
Let’s look at 5 ways you can leverage the platform to build your business:
1. Twitter Search (The [...]

Top 7 Hiring Mistakes for Startup Businesses

Avoid these pitfalls and build a team of talented employees.
Building great teams is never easy.
A quick look at the sports world confirms this. Coaches come and go, players are free to seek new teams and owners are free to sign players who fit certain roles within the limits of payroll.
In business, it’s equally difficult. [...]

Total Search Marketing

It’s been a long held concept that natural search, aka SEO, is a top internet marketing tactic for acquiring better conversions, leads, and ROI. Now, eConsultancy has collected data and documented a study in the U.K. showing that natural search is the best tactic for generating online leads, concluding it is greatly underused despite the [...]

12 Reasons for Investing in a Franchise

There are some obvious advantages in investing in a franchise, the most important being that you will be buying into a tried and tested business concept. It may more expensive, (although there are some low cost franchise oppotunities out there), than starting your own business in the same sort of market but it does bring [...]

Places to leave your stamp offline?

Obviously you can purchase advertising space in newspapers, magazines, radio, television, etc. But lets face it, paying for ad space can get pricey, so let’s look at a few cheaper ways to brand your business away from the computer, because shockingly, some people still don’t spend their entire day on the Internet.
Stickers
Giving your customers free [...]

What’s in a name?

It begins with an idea that you can’t stop thinking about. Eventually, after discussions with friends and family and many hours working with spreadsheets or a calculator, the idea becomes a decision to start a business.
Once you have made that decision there are suddenly many more things to think about, with the first one being [...]

Top Ten Business Do’s and Dont’s

Here are some important overall considerations you need to think about before starting your business:
THE TOP TEN DO’S WHEN STARTING A BUSINESS

Live frugally and begin saving up money for starting your business.
Learn your intended business by working for someone else in the same business first.
Consider the benefits of starting a moonlight business.
Consider [...]

Wake Up Call – People Use the Internet to Shop

Results from a survey conducted by Cambridge-based Internet design and marketing company, Netflare revealed some startling statistics about small businesses and eCommerce.
Stats like:
- 23% of sites hadn’t been updated since their launch leading to inaccurate and obsolete content
- Only 8% even had an eCommerce element to their site
- 25% had no way of tracking online [...]

10 ways to get ‘New’ product ideas

1. Solve an existing problem for people. There are thousands of problems in the world. Create a product that can provide a solution to one of those problems.
2. Find out what’s the current hot trend. You can find out what the new trends are by watching T.V, reading magazines and surfing the net. Just create [...]

Ways RSS Feeds Can Benefit Your Business

Google Reader is one of my favorite features that Google offers because it allows me to read the latest articles and posts from nearly every website and blog that I read on a regular basis all in one place.
This can be a tremendous time-saver and tool to keep you up to date on all of [...]