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Advanced small business tools help to avoid a big problems with the finance planing strategy.
Posted by Rachel Garcia on February 12th, 2011 ~
0 Comments The company’s design, there are things to be the heart, including for the purpose of navigation, security, and content. Here are some tips in helping you get started. Consider the first goal of the site. Web site has no clear purpose? Is there education, inform, sell, or persuade? In addition, the mission or purpose of consistency throughout the site is? More importantly, is it effective?
Find the address of the Websites on search engines, links, available to the public, and get past the firewall, checkers, viruses, ad blockers can not be found in your site, but not quite beautiful, if they are to read or as Shakespeare wrote it. The company name and logo, domain names, decision-making is very important. Companies must find a similar name is too long or something, hard to spell.
In addition, if the site is improved, it will be easier to find. Additional external sites link to it, it is likely that the major search engines at a high level, rather than its name would be released more.
Finally, if you want your website respectable, you should make sure it runs at full capacity, no viruses, pop-up ads, crashes, and other types of failures. T
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Posted by Sara Lopez on February 12th, 2011 ~
0 Comments This is a true story. Names aren’t included for obvious reasons. Don’t ask.
Once upon a time a product-obsessed software entrepreneur who didn’t like sales hired a sales-oriented entrepreneur who liked selling software. It seemed like a match made in heaven, as they say. Both of them could focus on what they liked doing.
The company was just starting. The software guy owned it, and paid the sales guy’s salary, and they both agreed on some very attractive incentives for the sales guy if he could double sales to a million dollars in the next year.
So they agreed, and both of them went to work. As time went by, the product-obsessed software guy focused on his computer and the code, while the sales guy made calls in the next room. When the code was ready, they worked together to create packaging. They had somebody duplicate disks (this was before the Internet) and assemble packages. And the product launched. The sales guy made more calls, and a major distributor agreed to carry the product. Soon af
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Posted by Sara Lopez on February 11th, 2011 ~
0 Comments I’m really liking the idea of Bell Canada’s Business Apps Store because I think cloud computing is such a great boon to small businesses (see my Top Business Trends 2011 article) and this business apps store removes one of the first hurdles to more small businesses taking advantage of the benefits of using web-based software applications; the hurdle of finding the web app to do what you need done right now. Who’s got time to be researching and searching for a business app when you’re in the middle of a project or keen to get one started?
Bell Canada’s Business Apps Store is offering web apps for Project Management, Accounting, Office Management, Collaboration… the list goes on. Free accounts and trials are available.
The jury is still out as to whether these are the best business apps around or what Bell’s service will be like, but this is certainly a timely idea and I, for one, am looking forward to giving it a try.
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Posted by Brian Reed on February 9th, 2011 ~
0 Comments Welcome to our bi-weekly roundup of small business events, conferences and webinars, brought to you as a community service by Small Business Trends and Smallbiztechnology.com.
Tory Johnson’s 2011 Spark & Hustle National Tour Multiple Dates and Cities Feb-July 2011
Whether you’re just getting your feet wet with this “business thing,” barely keeping your head above water, or finally ready to swim with the sharks, Spark & Hustle is the place to learn (exactly) how to transform your fledgling (or floundering) business into a wildly profitable venture.
Future of Entrepreneurship Education Summit February 18, 2011, Orlando Florida
This event will feature the top leaders in entrepreneurship education in the United States — combined they serve over 30 Million aspiring and existing entrepreneurs.
The Future of Entrepreneurship Education Summit is an initiative of Extreme Entrepreneurship Education. This event is being hosted by the University of Central Florida.
Intuit Inner Circle Exclusive Event: Q & A with Scott Cook February 22, 2011, Online
In honor of Entrepreneurship Week, the Intuit Inner Circle is very excited to bring you an exclusive Q & A session with Intuit’s Founder, Scott Cook. Scott founde
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Posted by Rachel Garcia on February 6th, 2011 ~
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For those concerned about Japans fiscal condition, it may (or may not) come as some relief that the government has set up a new panel of experts to study reforms to the social security and tax systems. The panel met for the first time yesterday, and is being chaired by Prime Minister Naoto Kan. Joining Kan are former LDP bigwig and current state minister of economic and fiscal policy Kaoru Yosano, former Minister of Health, Labour and Wlefare and current Josai International University President Hakuo Yanagisawa, and Professor Hiroshi Yoshikawa of the University of Tokyo, who served as chairman of the National Council on Social Security during for former LDP Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda.
Also on the panel is Yutaka Narita, who is described by the Yomiuri as the supreme adviser of Dentsu (You may recall that back in 2007, the Ministry of Finance hired a Dentsu man to help them better communicate their policies to the public, and the Yomiuri hinted at the time that he might have been brought on board to help with selling a consumption tax increase to the public).
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Posted by Sara Lopez on February 6th, 2011 ~
0 Comments I took a one-hour flight over the weekend and ended up talking to a smart business owner — she has a bakery in a small town in Oregon — who doesn’t have any Web presence.
What’s really cool is that her business, as she described it, is doing just fine. She makes a good living, it’s in a small town she loves, she knows all of her customers, and she enjoys her days. She loves the actual work. She enjoys the baking and she enjoys the interaction in the shop.
She is online, but in her own way. She has personal email and uses it often to keep in touch with grown children and grandchildren.
So, what do you think? Does she need to start a blog? Should she be announcing daily specials on Twitter? Should she have a Facebook account? Should she be apologizing to me (sort of) as we talk on the plane because she doesn’t do any of that stuff?
I don’t think so.
Sure, I do see that the online world provides a great leveler, a wonderful opportunity for even the smallest business to share and validate expertise and build a reputation. I’ve known so
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Tags: Business, Business Reality
Posted by Sara Lopez on February 6th, 2011 ~
0 Comments Just days ago I was writing about Foursquare for Business, a phone app that lets people share their location and their opinions about it with their social network.
Now Facebook is entering the social media recommendations arena with Facebook Deals, a smartphone application that connects consumers to discounts offered at nearby businesses.
How does it work? You use your phone to go to the Facebook application, Places, which lets your phone know where you are located and then Facebook Deals tells you which discounts are available in the immediate vicinity.
Facebook has signed 11 major retailers, including Joe Fresh, Indigo, Telus, Kiehl’s, H&M and Town Shoes, to start. But small business will soon be able to easily create a Facebook Deal, too, reporters were told at a recent press conference.
Right now Facebook Deals is limited to users of iPhones and Android phones only but plans are to extend it to all cell phones eventually.
Even with this limitation, Facebook Deals may be a social media marketing strategy your small business wants to get in on.
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Tags: Facebook, Facebook Deals