April 29, 2011
Small Business Tips, Technology
In this age of technology, many entrepreneurs rely on email as the primary method of communication with potential clients, current customers and prospects. However, when you’re working to get your foot in the door of a sales prospect, it can be tough to break through a cluttered email inbox. This …
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April 28, 2011
Money & Finance, Small Business Tips
Today’s guest blog is by Adam Hoeksema, Founder and CEO of ExecutivePlan. Adam is the author of a blog which assists entrepreneurs in the process of writing powerful business plan executive summaries, preparing stand-out elevator pitches, and hurdling the many obstacles encountered during the startup phase of a business. His …
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April 20, 2011
Small Business Tips
Do you realize that most of your potential customers and strategic partners are Googling both you and your business online? This training is for entrepreneurs who want to learn how to manage what’s being said about them on the World Wide Web. While you cannot control everything, I’m going to …
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April 14, 2011
Small Business Tips
Want your web site to be visited everyday by potential customers? View this video by SmallBusinessNewz to learn how to make your site a daily destination. More SmallBusinessNewz Videos
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March 3, 2011
Money & Finance, Small Business Tips
Have you ever thought about accepting credit cards for your business? The days of only accepting cash, checks and money orders are gone. Our guest author, Phillip Parker, shows how easy it can be for you to start taking credit cards as a form of payment for your business today. …
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February 10, 2011
Small Business Tips
Entrepreneur Resources welcomes this guest post, by NYC blogger Alan Parker. He shares how the actions and insights of successful Fortune 500 CEOs can easily relate to small business?.
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December 7, 2010
Marketing, Small Business Tips
Can you believe that 2011 is less than a month away? For many of us, December is a time of goal-setting, resolution writing and figuring out how to make next year better than the last. This December, I encourage you to examine your small business habits. This piece is often overlooked as we enter a new year. We'll set sales goals, marketing goals and even personal weight loss goals, but we won't take a hard look at the business habits we need to kick before the new year rolls around. I encourage you to do that right now.
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November 16, 2010
Small Business Tips
While networking online is important, some of the best business relationships can be made after meeting face-to-face. These 7 business networking tips will help you make the most of your next event.
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November 8, 2010
Small Business Tips
Before you take on that new client, make sure your eagerness now is not going to set you up for a headache later. Examine that first phone call or meeting to make sure you're not about to have a nightmare client on your hands. If that potential client utters one of these 5 phrases, you might want to run in the opposite direction.
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November 5, 2010
Marketing, Small Business Tips
Even the best business ideas can fail if no one knows about them, but many small businesses still have no marketing budget or plan. Think you don't have the time to craft a proper plan? Well, think again. The "Build Your Marketing Plan in One Week" e-book is for you! Only $7
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November 2, 2010
Small Business Tips
Prepping and executing a successful trade show event takes a lot of work. Use these 16 trade show success tips when working your next trade show event.
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October 7, 2010
Marketing, Small Business Tips
Today I have another guest post from Marcie Hill of The Write Design Company. She shares what she's learned about Marketing after 10 years of being an entrepreneur.
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October 5, 2010
Marketing, Small Business Tips
I have a professional blogger friend who is quite tech proficient. To stay on top of her game she regularly attends blogging and social media classes. Our conversations after these workshops are typically a lot of fun. She excitedly tells me what she learned, and we talk about how we can apply it to our own businesses. Well...last week was different. She was pissed. It turns out that the workshop was good, but the presenter turned her off. Their email conversation started innocent enough, but then it went sour.
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September 21, 2010
Small Business Tips
Guest post from Adam Hoeksema. So many entrepreneurs start a business with what may be called the “Field of Dreams Mentality.” This is flawed thinking.
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August 30, 2010
Marketing, Small Business Tips
Today I bring you another quick tip. This time it addresses how to sell as a franchise representative in today’s economy.
Question:
Do you know any sales techniques I could use that do not include pitching my brand over a competitor? The economy in my area has been hit hard, but I believe in my products and their benefits. Please help.
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August 25, 2010
Small Business Tips
Our last article showed you how to keep track of your online brand with popular tools, such as the Google search engine. Well, let’s say that you are using one of the tips from that article and come across something silly you did years ago. It is not aligned with the brand image you want to portray today, and it would be slightly embarrassing (okay, maybe really embarrassing) if a potential client saw it. What can you do? Here are three things you can do to manage how your negative information shows up on the Internet.
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