Crush It in 2016 With Your At-Home E-Commerce Business

Crush It in 2016 With Your At-Home E-Commerce Business

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]Start-ups are booming: more and more people are setting up an at-home business selling physical goods via e-commerce.  If you are considering starting an at-home e-commerce business in the year ahead, whether it's sourcing trending items on Alibaba, making one-off jewelry pieces or selling t-shirts with your own designs, below we have...

6 Tips to Draft a Powerful Social Media Policy

6 Tips to Help You Draft a Powerful Social Media Policy

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]It's more likely than not that your organization is present on social media. If it isn't, this is the last call to set up social media profiles and start enjoying all the benefits brought by social marketing. Needless to say, this kind of marketing can also produce terrible disasters – as...

How to Improve Your Website Loading Speed with a CDN

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]Success in online marketing is all about creating a seamless user experience for your potential buyers. In addition to design and ease of navigation, the speed in which your pages load is also an essential building block for a successful online store. Sure, you may not be running an e-commerce store or...

Your Small Business WILL Get Hacked: Why You Should Care and How to Prevent It

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] News headlines may highlight data security attacks on large enterprises, but they aren’t the only ones getting hacked. In fact, the National Cyber Security Alliance reports nearly half of all small businesses have suffered a data security breach. When it comes to data protection, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound...

Create a Marketing Video for Your Business With These Tips and Tools

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Video has increasingly proved itself to be an essential tool in any business's marketing tool box. It's the ideal way to tell the story of your business, your product, or you. It can easily put a human face on your business and help prospects and customers engage with you on an...

For Small Businesses, Online Reputation Is More than Just Reviews

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] For most small business owners, the best way to get good reviews is often a question that is top of mind. As author Mark. G Richardson says in his podcast Remodeling Mastery, today customers know more about the business than the business owners themselves. However, a customer’s or prospect’s perception of...

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Two Simple Words That Will Boost Any Business’s Marketing Efforts

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Businesses work hard to craft marketing campaigns and sales pitches that will bring results. They come up with the latest set of buzzwords and include them in every conversation, social media post, and email message they deploy. They’re sure that with the right combination of words, they’ll strike gold with a...

What Does eBay Have That Amazon Never Will?

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] “We Are eBay,” it was plastered on all the branding from your notepads and goodie bags to the hallway room signage. Was it there to remind me that they are eBay or was it there to remind themselves? I think it was both. After two days of being immersed in the hoopla...

CEO Operates on Principle of Business Karma and Finds Success

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Entrepreneur Raj Thakkar, founder and CEO of Charter School Business Management and FOREsight Financial Services for Good, operates on a principle he calls ‘business karma’ – the idea that if you do good things because it’s the right thing to do (not for what you can get out of it) then...