Ways To Help The 99% This Holiday Season
Have you ever wondered how you can do your part to help the U.S. economy? I'm not talking about the multi-millionaires who have helped to ruin our economy, but your local businesses and neighbors. If you are a typical American, each holiday season is spent buying large quantities of cheap, foreign goods, wrapping them in dollar store, foreign made wrapping paper, and giving them to people who may return the items for more foreign made products. Is it any wonder that our economy is in so much trouble? Nothing can be purchased that was made by American hands! Or is there? Why not make a difference this year and support your neighbors and local businesses this Black Friday? A gift does not need to fit in a shirt box. Think outside of that box and give the people on your gift list something they can use and something that will help our struggling economy. If everyone would do this during the holiday season, just imagine the impact we could make on our lives? Here are five gift ideas Ways To Help The 99% this Holiday Season. Read more...
Reasons To Join A Networking Referral Group
If you are a small business owner, have you ever considered joining a Networking Referral Group? Just about every community has a networking organization where business people and entrepreneurs meet and try to build their businesses. The networking group offers a lot of benefits for your business. By joining one of these groups, which is a nominal fee, you have the opportunity to meet with some really great people within your community and form business alliances. I belong to a group called Tiger Networking and since I joined a few months ago, my business has increased. I highly recommend joining any group that build business relationships for you. Below are five benefits that you gain by joining one of these groups... Read more...
Fleeing The Cubical And Starting Your Own Business
In 2008, I decided to leave the corporate world to take on the life of a home business owner. Like many people who start a business, my main ambition was to do something I love, but at the same time, to have the freedoms that you can't find in working for someone else. This is not to say that I didn't like having a steady paycheck - the safety blanket of a paycheck is great - but the added benefits of working for yourself outweigh the need for security. If you are thinking about working for yourself someday, or find you are in a situation where you have to start a business, you might find this top five list of tips useful. Read more...
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Promoting Your Business On A Tight Budget
If you are in business, you have to promote yourself. However, advertising for your business might prove to be more expensive than you can afford. So how does one compensate for lack of big advertising dollars, yet still get the message out to potential clients and customers? What do you do to progress your business up to the point where you can spend to get people through your door? The answer isn't so difficult. There are several tactics I've used to get the word out without spending an arm and a leg. Here are five methods to promote your business without spending everything. Read more...
Five Keys To Small Business Success
I was meeting with a client a couple of days ago (name and business changed to protect the innocent) who is looking to start a new business. His goal is to create a business that will be there to fall back on and take him into retirement. The only problem was, he had no plan in place. He was distraught because he thought he was at the end of his rope. What he really needed, though, was a cheat sheet to making money. Wouldn't that be great if all of us had that? I know, when I started out in business, it would have been so much easier without the mistakes. Instead, I learned along the way and now can share five core ideas you can use in your own business. Read more...
Categories: Business Tags: business success, entrepreneur, entrepreneurial, keys to success, poke in the box, Seth Godin, small business, succeed in business
Five Ways To Advertise Your Business On A Budget
Advertising can be expensive for a small business. However, you need to get the word out about your business and the common forms of advertising: Direct Mail, Television, and Radio can be extremely cost prohibited. What can you do when your advertising budget is strictly limited? Perhaps you can try using these five methods that have helped me in my own business. All of them have been tested and work very well. Success won't come overnight, but by trying these five advertising techniques and adapting them to your own business, I am sure that you can find success. Good luck! Read more...
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