Category: Small Business Trends
What is ERP? Does It Have a Place In Small Business?
The internet has really opened up things for small businesses all across the globe. Because of the proliferation of the cloud, smaller enterprises can compete with the bigwigs and tap into markets that only were previously available to larger companies with more locations. This new era of competition has made running a small business increasingly difficult, and many of them have outgrown QuickBooks and other simple accounting software. A new wave of online commerce isRead More
How To Use A Customer Database to Grow Your Business
Ramon Ray, editor of Smallbiztechnology.com recently sat down with Ashley Meyers of the Wells Fargo Business Insight series to discuss the importance of using a customer database to grow your business. During this live audio interview, Ramon discusses four ways every small business can use a customer database to grow their business, along with tips on what types of information you should be collecting and strategic ways to use that information to convert one time customersRead More
Things Entrepreneurial People Do Differently
Entrepreneurship goes beyond Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Garrett Camp, and it embodies something bigger than Twitter and WhatsApp. Entrepreneurship is a mindset, an attitude, and a lifestyle adopted by people who aren’t satisfied with the status quo. It’s an approach to life that favors creativity over conformity and action over inaction. Bestselling author, investor, and entrepreneur James Altucher says that for him, “Being an ‘entrepreneur’ doesn’t mean starting the next Facebook. Or even startingRead More
Helping Small Business: Three Tips for Becoming a Female CEO
I’m heartened to see female CEOs in all sorts of organizations — political, business and not-for-profit — but women still represent a tiny minority of CEOs worldwide. Just 5 percent of Fortune 500 CEO positions and 5.3 percent of Fortune 1000 positions are held by women. Those numbers have to change. I say that not simply because women deserve more representation in business, but because companies need to reflect the make-up of their consumer base,Read More
Infographic of the Week: Which Social Network is Best for Your Small Business?
Infographics have become quite hot items. And it’s little wonder why – packed with lots of info and eye-catching visuals, they’re a super shareable piece of content. We’re constantly coming across great infographics that condense so much useful information into a digestable visual, and we thought it’s high-time we shared. This week, the infographic that caught (and kept) our attention was found on Visual.ly (the visual content gurus). It centers around social media for small businessRead More
How to Write a Business Plan
Planning for Success You’ve no doubt heard the expression, “Failing to plan is planning to fail.” Many entrepreneurs write a business plan only when they need to secure start-up financing. However, your plan is far more than a document for banks and investors to read; it’s an invaluable roadmap for launching and growing your business. In order to put your business concept on paper, you need to think through and research the many factors thatRead More
Personal Branding Life, You are the Hero in the City
I’ll best illustrate this with the use of a listening-to-the-radio analogy. If you listen to the radio, you have a couple of (or more) stations you like to listen to, maybe for the music they play or the programs they feature. However, should you hear something you don’t like (songs you don’t appreciate, too many commercials), odds are you’ll change the station. Even more displeasing is where there’s too much static noise on a particularRead More
Small Business Website with WordPress
Who want to be a self-reliant person by profession of any kind of small business, can explore you with WordPress web life style. Business opportunities are growth faster in the modern edge of internet and computer technology. What is value of your product and brand without work with internet? WordPress web engine are giving such opportunity to open a pioneer concept of your small business. Any kind of small business you hold with the webRead More
Question and Answer About Small Business with Stephanie Lynch
Stephanie Lynch is the CEO and Founder of OnTheQT.ie, a website dedicated to finding and showcasing the best out of the way places in Ireland. Stephanie talks about how she started and why ‘off the beaten track’ tourism is growing. So what is On The QT all about? We’re a tourism website with a difference. So we promote the places that are out of the way and where people go back again and again. ItRead More
How the Cloud Can Transform Your Small Business
Receipts shoved into shoeboxes. Unreadable desk calendars stained with coffee rings. An inbox bursting with hundreds of unread emails… Sometimes, running a small business isn’t pretty. Now, imagine what a seamlessly streamlined business would look like – one where finances are available at the click of a keyboard, inboxes are neatly organized and filing cabinets are a thing of the past. Therein lies the value of the cloud. The popularity of cloud-based software has beenRead More