La Mancha SimsJuly 23, 2015 Many of our applicants are surprised when they realize that applying for credit from multiple lenders (such as department stores or auto dealerships) has negatively impacted their credit, and temporarily prevented them from qualifying for the business loans or lines of credit they need to fund their business. They become … Continue reading Understanding Why Too Many Credit Inquiries Can Hurt Your Credit Score
Laura DonovanJuly 17, 2015 47% of Small Businesses don’t actively use Social Media 25% of Small Businesses have no future plans to use Social Media 53% of Small Businesses that do use Social Media plan to devote more time and money to their Social Marketing Research firm Clutch polled small businesses of varying sizes to … Continue reading Many Small Businesses Still Not Using Social Media
Miriam HaraJuly 10, 2015 Earlier this week, I focused on you being the multi-tasking maestro as the business or team leader. It’s equally important to encourage your team members to multi-task. I’ll repeat my definition of multi-tasking. I’m not talking about one person being asked to wear too many hats and spread themselves thin. That … Continue reading One Hat or Many Hats? Encouraging Team Building
Maddy OsmanJuly 3, 2015 For many people, the idea of social media management inspires images of quickly churning out haphazard posts and hoping for the best. Perhaps they already hold stigmas about traditional forms of marketing and view social media as another pointless piece to the word-spreading puzzle. Or maybe they get nervous every time … Continue reading Behind The Scenes: The Many Facets Of Social Strategy
Deborah SweeneyJune 18, 2015 Facebook has recently unveiled one of its newest features to get you to update your status more frequently. Ever been stumped on what to update your company’s status to? Well, fret no longer. When creating a status, Facebook now gives a list of the top trending hashtags as inspiration. This brings … Continue reading #TooManyHashtags – How Many Hashtags Is Too Many?
Brittany HurlburtMay 20, 2015 How Many Marketing Buzzwords are you using? Marketers are known for using obscure words to describe an action, activity, or a topic. Good marketers wouldn’t be good if they didn’t use a couple buzzwords here and there in their work or in their presentations, right? The truth is, there are marketing … Continue reading How Many Useless Buzzwords Are on Your Site?
James PotterApril 27, 2015 We often have people tell us how they think LinkedIn works and it is not always correct. There are a lot of myths about what it takes to make LinkedIn work so we have created a series of blog posts to dispel the most common myths we see. Myth #2: Bigger … Continue reading LinkedIn Myths: Myth #2: Bigger is Better: I Should Connect to as Many People as I Can
by Douglas Karr April 17th, 2015 This is the million dollar question isn’t it? Every form needs to collect enough information to qualify a lead or close a sale… but too many fields will result in abandonment. So what’s the answer? This is going to be annoying but… it depends. Don’t leave just yet… … Continue reading How Many Questions Should You Ask On Your Landing Page Form
Daniel SmithApril 8, 2015 It’s no secret as a small business it can be a daunting task to get customers to engage with your website as much as one would like. The consequential nature of low visitor numbers is detrimental to the happiness of you and your client. Just over 30 percent of small businesses … Continue reading You’ll Never Guess How Many Businesses Struggle Attracting New Clients
Peep LajaFebruary 20, 2015 A/B testing is great, and very easy to do these days. Tools are getting better and better. As a result, people rely more and more on the tools. As a result, critical thinking is much less common. It’s not fair to just blame the tools of course. It’s very human … Continue reading Stopping A/B Tests: How Many Conversions Do I Need?
