Local Business

Budget-Friendly Tips to Success for Small Businesses

Plenty of small businesses follow tips that cost less and are technology savvy. These multimedia tools to manage, promote and market their business, reduce expenses and increase their revenues. These tools can be easily accessed, user friendly and cheap or even free. Google it Google offers so many free services that can help small businesses….

Social Media for Small Businesses

Social media has become an integral part of our day-to-day lives. Businesses of all size and shapes have started making the most of available mediums. Today we will try to anatomize tips on social media for small businesses. There are a plethora of small businesses eyeing social medium to promote their business/services. However, majorly these…

SEO Tips for Local Small Businesses

The use of the Yellow Pages is now considered an outdated approach to attract prospective clients. These days, it’s getting your business online and making it more visible that proves to be the more effective mean to do it. And it makes sense considering the fact that around 82% of the world’s population are now…

9 Statistics Every Business Owner Should Know About Marketing Your Local Business Online

As a small business owner you may be wondering if you should invest any time or money on marketing your local business online. After all you are already being pulled in a thousand directions by your business, your staff, your customers; and the last thing you need is another responsibility – especially if it won’t…

Why SEO Services Is the Secret Ingredient for Your Business?

When it comes to SEO and running a business in India, things may seem straightforward. The only thing you need to do is identify the keywords that define your business, and use them in your website content in order to increase your chances of being found by users through search engines. However, things are not…

Why Business Owners Seek to Enter Foreign Markets

It is no longer news that business investors from around the world look at entering foreign markets in order to expand their local business operations or diversify their investments and establish new operations in the international market. Every year, hundreds of entrepreneurial and growing companies consider international expansion as a marketing and growth strategy. If…

Google Places – 10 Tips On Optimising Your Google Places Business Listing

Claiming your Google Place Page listing is imperative no matter whether you run an online or offline business. Google Places, formerly known as Google Maps, is a fantastic way of maintaining a presence online particularly if you’re a bricks and mortar business without a website. It can provide potential customers, who are more than likely…

Small Business Loans With A Poor Credit Score

Many small business owners struggle with obtaining business finance, and there is absolutely nothing unusual about this. Getting a business loan for small businesses, such as retailers, restaurants, garages and so on, is not as simple as one would think from the bank. This is not to say however, that getting a business loan is…

What Can Celebrated Graphic Designer Jeff Fisher Teach us About Small Business Marketing?

One of the key mistakes small businesses make when creating an online presence is trying to do it all themselves, says Jeff Fisher, a graphic designer with 30 years experience, and author of two books on graphic design. Fisher also is a member of the advisory boards for How Magazine, UCDA Designer Magazine and the…

20 Small Business Survival Strategies

How to survive tough economic times without laying off employees. As a business owner or manager, during the last 18 months you have been faced with shrinking profit margins and fewer customers lining up to purchase your once thought to be “hot products or services.” The question of how to survive these seemingly tough times…

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