Understanding YOUR Customers Key To Small Business Success As a small business owner, perhaps the most important thing to know is what YOUR customers, and prospective customers want. Once you have a good sense of customer needs and wants, then you can identify how you can meet them in ways that your large competitors cannot….
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Small Businesses Competing With Big Companies And Winning
How Small Businesses Can Go Up Against Large Companies and Prosper If you’ve owned or operated a small business, you know that in almost every sector, there are a few giant corporations that appear to dominate a market. Whether it’s groceries, hair stylists or law firms, the large companies have some significant advantages over small…
Small Businesses Need 80% Content Marketing and 20% Interactive Marketing
Interactive Vs. Content Marketing On Social Networking Content marketing is the old school method of using articles, photos, video as a vehicle to sell products and services, to create a brand, and/or generate ad revenue, using the content to drive interest. Interactive marketing has a similar purpose, but it doesn’t rely on CONTENT to create a brand….
Censorship and Moderating On Social Media
It’s An Obligation To Ensure That Any Forum, or Social Media Platform Is Focused, and A Safe Place For Visitors Most small businesses have a presence on social media platforms, whether it’s on the big platforms (LinkedIn, Facebook, Bebee), or through their own blogs. Social media relies on engagement in the form of comments from…
Small Business: Start With The Right Vision For What Your Business is About: The SINGLE Thing I Did To Launch 25 Years of Small Business Success
To celebrate my 25th anniversary in business, I’m sharing some of my stories and reflections on being successful for a quarter century. I suspect that the decisions that make enduring impact on small business success are not the huge mega hairy ones that you know are important at the time. I suspect it’s the smaller…
Moron Social Media Vanity Metrics: A View Is Not A View Is Not A View
Common Social Media Metrics Are Worthless In my article on worthless metrics, I suggested that most metrics provided by social media platforms are, by and large, irrelevant to small business, because they look at things easily counted, rather than business outcomes. Here’s an expansion on that theme. If you are only familiar with metrics provided to…