All small businesses face the same 5 problems when marketing their products or services online. Getting visitors to your website. Creating valuable content. Growing an audience via social media. Capturing new new leads. Converting leads into sales. There is a new technology available that solves all 5 of these challenges and it will quickly become [...]
Make $6 for every $1 you spend online
One point to remember in marketing is that if you make $1 more than what you spent on your marketing then keep doing it. In this case it is an excellent return. If anyone would like to look at either PPC or Facebook ads please let me know. Amplify’d from searchengineland.com Paid Search Drives $6 [...]
Google Places Has a Great Feature Most Small Business Owners Don’t Know About
Google Places has a great great feature that very few Local Small Business Owners Know About. They call it “Place Page Posts”. It can be used for a variety of reasons and you can even include links directly to your website or where ever you’d like. Allen Crawley and I recorded a brief video a [...]
Online Reviews and Your Business
The bottom line is you need people talking about your business! Set up a review system and be proactive. Amplify’d from www.confluencedigital.com Key benefits of online reviews Online reviews can increase search engine rankings as well as drive business through visits from online shoppers. Many review sites allow you to add a link to your [...]
The Business Puzzle
How to put the pieces together and make ANY business more profitable and more valuable!” With all of the latest and greatest concepts, seminars, webcasts, and “How-To” books vying for your attention, you would think that growing your business was as complicated as building the space shuttle. The fact is, there are only three ways [...]
Increase Sales
There are only 3 ways to increase your sales – whatever business you’re in: 1. Increase your customers 2. Increase the frequency of transaction 3. Increase the transaction size These 3 apply whether you’re a solopreneur, have a professional practise, you’re a retailer, distributor or manufacturer, a service business, you’re business is online or offline. [...]
Increase profit percentage
Related Reading: Growth or Bust: Proven Turnaround Strategies to Grow Your Business Every Business Is a Growth Business: How Your Company Can Prosper Year After Year Freedom, Inc.: Free Your Employees and Let Them Lead Your Business to Higher Productivity, Profits, and Growth Profitable Growth Is Everyone’s Business: 10 Tools You Can Use Monday Morning [...]
Increase value
Related Reading: Growth or Bust: Proven Turnaround Strategies to Grow Your Business Every Business Is a Growth Business: How Your Company Can Prosper Year After Year Freedom, Inc.: Free Your Employees and Let Them Lead Your Business to Higher Productivity, Profits, and Growth Profitable Growth Is Everyone’s Business: 10 Tools You Can Use Monday Morning [...]
Action & Implementation
“Strategy” overrated, simply “doin’ stuff” underrated. See Kelleher and Bossidy: “We have a ‘strategic plan,’ it’s called doing things.”—Herb Kelleher. “Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability.”—Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan/ Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done. Action has its own logic—ask Genghis Khan, [...]
A Fish Sandwich
You all may have heard this saying: If you give a man a fish he eats for a day. If you teach him to fish he eats for a lifetime. As a small business owner – do you have time to learn how to fish or do you want someone just to give you a [...]
