Tag: Small Business
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
Links Collection of Today in Small Business: ‘We’re the Uber of Whatever!’
What’s affecting me, my clients and other small business owners today. The Economy Crude oil prices are at their lowest since June 2012. Important measures indicate low inflation for September. Economists are not enthusiastic about the Republican economic agenda. Start-Up A start-up aims to solve a financial problem most people don’t realize they have. Ahead of winter, a new coat company tries to disrupt the market. An “on demand” beauty service raises $7 million. HereRead More
10 Free Twitter Plugins for WordPress Could Integrate to Your Small Business Website
Whether you’re a Twitter superstar or just want to be one, Twitter plugins for WordPress can take your results to a higher level. From Plugins that add “Tweet This” functionality to widgets that display your Twitter timeline, you’ll find oodles of social boosting features in the list below. Best of all, they’re free! About the only type of plugin you won’t find in this list are simple social sharing buttons. If you’re interested in thoseRead More
Your Web Life Style with WordPress is Your Celebrity Life
Facebook, Twitter, Google plus, and LinkedIn are social network platforms in different level. It is one the most popular Craze for the young generation in the world that every young in school, college and university student should have a Facebook identity. Many a people also use twitter and Google plus, and LinkedIn is more popular among the professionals. But those platforms are not perfect at all to present yourself, your inner being and your creativity. IfRead 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
Growing Your Personal Brand Facebook Fan Page
You developed a website with WordPress Web Theme(s). Now you have to promote and seal your personal brand through many technical ways. How many times everyday you spend your times on your Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and others social network. You spend this on the same platform but to promote your personal brand. Specially now a days, facebook is very usable, user friendly, most uses and most familiar social networking platform that easily you brand yourRead 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