10 Smartphone Apps to Help Run Your Small Business On The Go As a small business owner you are inevitably away from your desk and office a lot - meeting with clients, business partners, suppliers, distributors, or simply networking. While you are on the move work still needs get done and that can be a...
12 Must-Read Business Books This Holiday Season Have that special small business owner or entrepreneur on your holiday gift giving list? Want to treat yourself to some enjoyable, business-boosting reading during the holidays? You've come to the right place, as we share with you an assortment of the best books available from some of our...
5 Tips for Avoiding the Spam Folder: May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor Any marketer can feel a bit like Katniss Everdeen of the Hunger Games during the holiday season – maneuvering from one promotional battle to the next trying to keep emails alive and out of spam folders. It’s an email marketing game and...
Holiday Marketing Trends and Predictions for 2014 Each holiday season the race is on to try to figure out the most direct, and most affordable, way to reach consumers. With marketing techniques and strategies changing so quickly in our ever connected digital world, it’s hard to keep up with what’s new and effective. To help,...
7 Lessons for Every Entrepreneur and Advice from Those Who Came Before Us The path of entrepreneurship is one that can be riddled with many successes, many failures, many moments of self-doubt and many moments of personal satisfaction. It’s a roller-coaster that only the brave will typically buy a ticket for, but that also provides...
A fire burned Brad Sterl’s pizza-crust manufacturing plant to the ground, but couldn’t destroy this entrepreneur’s can-do spirit. It was March 2014, and Brad Sterl was enjoying a relaxing dinner with his wife after a long day at the Natural Products Expo West trade show in Anaheim, CA. Suddenly, Sterl found himself facing every entrepreneur’s...
Ask successful entrepreneurs what made them decide to start a new business and you’ll hear everything from “I saw an opportunity in the marketplace” to “I was tired of making money for someone else.” Ask an entrepreneur whose business has a socially conscious mission, and you’ll get a different type of answer. Entrepreneurs starting businesses...
Is Content Really King When It Comes to Social Media? Our expert this issue is Bryan Kramer, a Social Business Strategist and CEO of PureMatter, where he’s led his agency to consistent growth over the last 10 years, ranking as one of Silicon Valley’s fastest-growing private companies by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Community Q: Everyone says when it...
If you’re like most small business owners, you won’t be surprised to learn a recent Sage survey found time management is one of the top personal challenges faced by startups. If you have a lot of ideas and not enough time to implement them—no matter how hard you hustle—it’s time to adopt some smart...
How do you launch a successful restaurant in South Central Los Angeles—an inner-city area plagued by gang violence and poverty, where there are few businesses other than liquor stores? For Karim Webb and Edward Barnett of PCF Management, the answer is simple: Show the community you care, and the community will support your business.
