A business blog is essential to maximize your online exposure for a number of reasons, including search engine optimization, building your identity and creating expert status, generating leads, and sharing information to name just a few. You also want to be mentioned and noted in other industry blogs throughout the internet for maximum exposure. At [...]

Now that Christmas is over, maybe you have some good gift giving advice to share with others on what not to do.  And if you share those tips over at the BizSugar blog, you’ll be entered into their latest giveaway contest. One lucky winner will be chosen to receive a $100.00 Amazon Gift Certificate.  But [...]

For those of you who celebrate Christmas, here’s to a very merry one!  We’d like to wish you and your families a safe and happy holiday.  Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas Photo via Shutterstock

The other day while browsing through some new articles on BizSugar, I came across a submission about dress codes for your business.  I followed the link to the original article posted at The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur blog.  I expected to see just a standard written article on the subject but got way more than I [...]

Here’s a good tip for all private middle market business owners looking to improve the value of their business: Act like a public company. According to Robert Slee, author of Private Capital Markets: Valuation, Capitalization and Transfer of Private Business Interests, private companies that structure themselves and act like public companies reap tremendous advantages regardless [...]

As the clock winds down on 2011, you may be considering the idea of crafting a business proposal going into the New Year.  If that is the case, there are a number of matters that will come into play. In the event that the coming year is the time for you to throw a business [...]

Are you clueless when it comes to marketing? Lost in the sea of click-through rates, impressions, search engine bid/ask arbitrage, social media, QR codes and more? You’re not alone. Here are a few concrete ways to develop – and evaluate – effective online marketing campaigns that can jumpstart small company business revenue without breaking the [...]

We’re a week into December already and if you need some holiday shipping tips, Small Business Trends Radio can help.  Recently Anita Campbell conducted a podcast interview with the UPS Small Business/Occasional Customer Marketing Manager, Tom Langa. In this 30 minute podcast you’ll hear shipping tips and tricks for a painless holiday shipping season.  You’ll [...]

Usually after the holiday season is done and gone, most people are strapped for cash.  They’ve overspent on gift giving and now they’re looking to make some extra money.  That’s where this list of 50 Home Business Ideas can come in handy. With this list I found on BizSugar, you can start the new year [...]

Recently Intuit conducted a holiday sales survey and produced The Small Business Owner’s Holiday Season Cheat Sheet infographic.  I found many of the statistics on this particular infographic interesting but one stood out most surprising to me.   According to Intuit, 69% of holiday shoppers will still shop in retail store locations. That number seams [...]