October 24th, 2008

Do good marketers need to be good teachers?

Great teachers know how to grab their audiences attention and make their information engaging, entertaining and relevant. Should small business marketers do the same?

The winners of the UK National Teaching Awards were recently announced and it got me thinking about what really makes a great teacher - and how small business can put that to use in their marketing.

Content-led marketing uses written, recorded and even live content to attract prospects, retain customers and position businesses as trusted resources in their marketplaces. The majority of that content is likely to be informative and educational.

March 7th, 2008

Small Business Bookkeeping

Bookkeeping is the process of maintaining records of various transactions of a business. The records include total revenue, gain, loss, expenses, dates of transactions, and many other details. Bookkeeping is the basis of accounting process and it is very important, no matter what business you are in.

There are several advantages of maintaining proper bookkeeping for small businesses. Basically, bookkeeping is legally required for every business. It helps business owners know the exact position of their business anytime they want. Details like gain or loss, the amount due to creditors, dates of transactions, and the amount due from debtors are critical in assessing financial position and bookkeeping helps a great deal in these things. Small businesses have to maintain bookkeeping to be legally and financially sound.

February 25th, 2008

Web Hosting For A Small Business

Many smaller businesses find it difficult to match the size and scope of the internet presence that is established by larger, corporately funded, companies. With full staffed IT divisions, the major corporations have the ability to focus a lot of energy and money on the development of their e-business solutions. Setting up a viable small business website is one way that you can establish yourself and begin to reclaim some of the business that you may have lost to the giants. There are a number of service solutions available to small business owners that allow you to improve your web presence without breaking the bank.

January 24th, 2008

Outsourcing Yourself To Small - Town America

Weekday Dot-Commer, Weekend Farmer? At first, the resume reads like a gag – Programmer, Dot-com Entrepreneur AND weekend Hobby Farmer? True, an odd combination for most, but David Bryant is living his dream. By day he and his wife Kim manage their high-tech firm in rural Virginia. They play the roles convincingly, with Dave as lead programmer cranking away at his laptop until the wee hours and Kim handling sales calls and customer demonstrations via state-of-the-art teleconference tools. If not for the unusual setting of their workplace, a renovated 100 year old country home in the sleepy town of Lovingston, Virgina, one could easily be convinced they were observing a Silicon Valley operation…with one major distinction.

January 12th, 2008

Finding Catchy Keywords And Search Terms

Someone is looking for you, but the problem is they don’t know you yet!

Your future business is going to be split into 2 groups: people who know you and people who don’t know you. Those who know you can find you easily and even the least optimized website can be found by someone typing in your buisiness name or domain name directly into their browser.

November 17th, 2007

Small Business Bookkeeping

Bookkeeping is the process of maintaining records of various transactions of a business. The records include total revenue, gain, loss, expenses, dates of transactions, and many other details. Bookkeeping is the basis of accounting process and it is very important, no matter what business you are in.

There are several advantages of maintaining proper bookkeeping for small businesses. Basically, bookkeeping is legally required for every business. It helps business owners know the exact position of their business anytime they want. Details like gain or loss, the amount due to creditors, dates of transactions, and the amount due from debtors are critical in assessing financial position and bookkeeping helps a great deal in these things. Small businesses have to maintain bookkeeping to be legally and financially sound.


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