As business owners we all know the importance of our emails reaching their intended recipient with little resistance.  Along with avoiding spam filters, we all want to project a professional appearance.  So here are 10 Email Subject Line Blunders to avoid that will hopefully get your emails seen and read more. I can’t tell you [...]

The business industry is becoming more fast-paced and inventive in hopes of expanding their customer base. In fact, more entrepreneurs are now joining the mobile computing band wagon to gain more traction for their small business. Mobile computing is part of a technology that can change your business and it is all about portability and [...]

Some people you just can’t please. At least, that’s the truism my grandpa used to say to me. Clearly, grandpa didn’t run a small business. While some people are harder to make happy than others, as a CEO of a small business you can’t just write off difficult clients, unless of course you don’t mind [...]

Wouldn’t we all just love getting more done in less time?  Sounds impossible right?  Well maybe not so much anymore in light of today’s technology.  With the ever increasing amount of online tools available to entrepreneurs, efficiency is so much easier to achieve. So if your small business is in the market for a new [...]

Business incubation has been in existence in the U.S since 1959 and has been growing ever since. In Anita Campbell’s article, Business Incubators: The Next Innovation Engine?, legislators are looking into business incubation as a way to boost job growth. Since small businesses are the major contributors in job creation, it just makes sense that [...]

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If you are like most entrepreneurs, you would already have milked different social networking sites for all their worth. And why not? It sure would drive more traffic to your site. The higher traffic percentage your site gets, the higher chances of getting more sales. There are many search engine optimization strategies which can help [...]

Small companies are often controlled by one person in particular, the CEO. Often times the CEO will take on many different kinds of tasks in order to make sure that the company will be able to enjoy better success. The only problem is that by wearing the different hats necessary to do everything from lead [...]

Gone are the days when businesses just relied on neon signs, tarpaulins and pamphlets. Since the inception of social networking sites, entrepreneurs harnessed it to maintain business relationships and attract new customers. Marketing has taken on a whole new meaning once social media became prevalent, especially for small businesses. While it is true that the [...]

Does your company’s Information Technology area act more like competitors rather than partners with the business? A poor relationship with IT can be extremely detrimental to the efficiency, productivity and cost-effectiveness of your organization. Watch for some of these warning situations: • Everyone knows HR cuts payroll checks, and finance pays vendors. IT doesn’t always [...]