Gail OliverApril 30, 2015 You may not have heard, but next week (May 4 to 8) is National Small Business Week (be sure to use the hash tag #DreamSmallBiz) and it is a good time to pitch a story about your business to your local press. Anything can be a possible story pitch, including if … Continue reading 4 Amazing Free Publicity Opportunities For Your Small Business
Skip WeismanApril 24, 2015 April is time when there is a lot of focus on championships in the athletic world in the United States. When the Major League Baseball season began a couple of weeks ago every team was in first place with equal visions of winning the World Series Championship. That same week the … Continue reading Championship Results In Small Business Easy To Achieve
Penney FoxApril 23, 2015 How Do You Grow Your Business? Recently I had a phone conversation with a blogger friend of mine about managing a small business. He quit his job this year to be a freelance writer and work for himself. Since I’ve been in business since 1999, I had loads of advice for … Continue reading What a Business Idea Garden Is … and Why You Need One
by Barrie Smith April 16th, 2015 Do you run a small business? Or how about a startup? You have seen the Google page 1 results for your business keywords and now you dont know where to start. Perhaps you feel like investing your entire limited budget into pay-per-click in hope it will get you … Continue reading 5 Tactics For Small Businesses To Get Traffic On A Small Budget
Katrina PfannkuchApril 13, 2015 Marketing runs on ideas. It’s fuel for the tank, inspiration for innovation. However, keeping the pump primed is only the first part of the process. Businesses need a simple, efficient way to take an idea and make it real. Yet, most organizations continue to struggle with the “how” of marketing ideation, … Continue reading How to Take an Idea and Make it Real
Stefan SchumacherApril 2, 2015 There is a big difference between an average, ordinary web page and one that has been optimized for the search engines. Before we go any further, think about this quote from basketball great John Wooden: “If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do … Continue reading How to Optimize Your Small Business Web Page The Smart Way
Personal Branding BlogMarch 23, 2015 The spring is a great time to be a sports fan in the United States as: March Madness crowns the annual collegiate basketball champion. Professional basketball and hockey leagues start the most interesting segments of their seasons with their extensive 16 team playoff tournaments in the NBA and NHL. All … Continue reading Creating Championship Performance in Small Business Workplaces
The visual social network reveals more details about the machine learning algorithms that serve personally relevant Pins on user home feeds. Martin Beck on March 20, 2015 Pinterest isn’t just chronological anymore. Taking a page from Facebook and its News Feed algorithm, Pinterest has started reordering users’ home feeds to serve content that is more … Continue reading Pinterest Explains How “Pinnability” Drives Its Non-Chronological Home Feed
Ryan VanDenabeeleMarch 17, 2015 The grumbling has been growing louder, small businesses are tired of watching their organic Facebook reach plummet. It’s a miserable feeling and many are scaling back their Facebook marketing efforts in search for greener pastures. The truth is, with 1.4 billion users, Facebook can’t be ignored. Businesses must adapt to the … Continue reading 10 Ways Small Businesses Can Gain More Facebook Reach
Gail OliverMarch 3, 2015 Time for some creativity! Last week the International Culinary Center in New York City recreated 10 of the most iconic Oscar dresses from the last several years in the form of decadent cookies (yes, that is a cookie on the right in the photo below). This idea of theirs got coverage … Continue reading Quirky Promotional Ideas That Get Attention For Your Small Business
