Tag: small business
What You Need To Know About Using WordPress For Your Small Business
It’s A Trade off For Small Businesses Using WordPress When I search online for a service, menu or product, I often end up on WordPress sites that literally make me cringe. Many of them consist of one or two pages,…
Social Media Not Enough: Reasons Your Business Needs A Website Part 3
(Third in a series on why small businesses should not rely on social media platforms, like LinkedIn and Facebook. The first in the series is available here.) The second in the series can be found here. #16 Customizable Multiple E-mail…
Small Business Owners Using Visualization to Stay Motivated
This is an excerpt from Perfect Phrases For Managing Your Small Business, which is available in book stores and at amazon. Please click the picture for more information. It happens to every small business owner. You get tired. Your motivation…
For Small Businesses It Can’t All Be About The Benjamins —Passion Counts
There are a lot of people who start their businesses because they believe their ideas are fabulous and unique, and they also believe that the operation of a small business is going to make them rich. Often they believe riches…
Small Business Advantages: Beating The Giants – Partnering
Partnering: A Business Advantage For The Davids vs. The Goliaths Consistent with the philosophy that small businesses can compete with large businesses if they focus on what they can do that the large corporations can’t, we look at how small…
The Small Business Advantage: Applying The Principles Of Small Ball To Your Small Business
There are a number of things large companies can do that small companies have trouble replicating, due to economies of scale, and available resources. What small business CAN do is all the little things that capitalize on the shorter “distances” between…
The Small Business Advantage: Distance To Connect – The Lever That Small Businesses Need to Understand
The size of a company is only relevant to the extent that it provides different opportunities and challenges. By itself it means nothing. That said, the size of a company affects the distance the company has to go to accomplish…
Small Businesses: What Your Customers Want From You
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…
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…
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…
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…
