Small business success articles

Ecommerce For Import Export Companies

Fri, 9 Jun 2006 05:46:16 +0100

eCommerce for Import Export Companies: This year, according to eMarketer, one billion people worldwide will have Internet access and nearly 250 million households will have broadband. Although, Asia accounts for 56 percent of world population, but only 10 percent has access to the Internet at present. With the rapid economic development of Asian countries this figure will increase dramatically in the coming years. This ubiquitous presence of the Internet is forcing companies to embrace the Internet as a marketing and sales channel aggressively. Many companies have adopted Internet based technologies to streamline their crucial business processes and benefiting enormously from it.

Work-life For Small Business Owners

Fri, 9 Jun 2006 19:44:03 +0100

Work-Life for Small Business Owners: Has the pendulum swung too far in increasing productivity at the expense of employee work-life balance? In an article titled, Americans of All Stripes Are Sicker Than They Need to Be, Paul Krugman indicated that full-time American workers work, on average, about 46 weeks per year compared with 41 weeks for full-time British, French and German workers. One indication that this is taking a toll on American workers is that it appears that more employees are taking mental health days. According to an article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, more than one-third of U.S. workers say they played hooky from work over the past 12 months. Were you one of them?

Off-line Marketing To Promote Your Website

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:43:20 +0100

Off-Line Marketing : Most of the Internet Marketers seem to think of website promotion as just submitting to search engines, directories, link building and advertising in ezines or banner exchanges.

It is a known fact that most people in the world use most of their time off-line. They read newspapers, magazines, listen to radio and watch TV, talk with their friends, neighbors and family. Not all the time is spent surfing on the internet.

Marketing For Introverts

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:42:33 +0100

We all have our levels of how we interact, the environments where we thrive and the environments where we are extremely uncomfortable. I have seen many people go into business for themselves, myself included, that would rather give up their dream than to market their business and themselves. I was almost one of those statistics. I almost QUIT my dream until I discovered the secret

The Best Traffic Money Can Buy...?

Sun, 11 Jun 2006 19:41:35 +0100

We all know that it is possible to get tons of free traffic from the big search engines - Google, MSN, Yahoo and so on but getting to the top of these engines has always been incredibly tough. Actually, I am being slightly dishonest again. Going back a few years, it was in fact very easy to get a high search engine ranking, you just put a page together, threw in a few meta keywords and a decent page title and scattered your keywords across the text

Looking To Raise Your Profile? Get Press Attention....

Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:40:39 +0100

Most people who take the self-employment route normally have the mix of marketing, promotion and advertising down pat. Once along the road to entrepreneurial success, however, I often asked is “how comes I’m not in the papers?” When asked if they’ve considered – or even done – PR (public relations and there’s a definite stress on the word public), the response is either “What’s that?” or “Isn’t that spin?”

Networking - How And Why You Need To Maintain Yours

Fri, 9 Jun 2006 19:39:46 +0100

A lot of people have transitioned from the centralized workplace to a more individualized computer based one. In the formal business environment, we would come in contact daily with peers in our profession. A computer or web based business, by the nature of it can isolate some people from the social interaction that the previous workplace afforded. In other cases, some socially reserved people find they have a vast computer based professional and social network of contacts. How we maintain our network depends ....

Tips For Promoting Your Rss Feed

Thu, 8 Jun 2006 19:38:53 +0100

There is little argument from webmasters and publishers that RSS brings in traffic. So once you've made the leap and created a feed, how do you tell your visitors about the feed?

1. Submit Your RSS Feed to RSS Directories.

This will not only increase the number of sites linking to your website and increasing your link popularity, it will also increase the RSS feeds profile. A number of RSS search engines and

Stop And Go Marketing

Thu, 8 Jun 2006 19:34:01 +0100

Stop and Go marketing and ENERGY go hand in hand. Stop and Go marketing says what it is. We go out to market for time periods and then we get busy with our work and stop marketing. Here is the problem with that. Using the example of a funnel filled with clients and business contacts, when we stop marketing the funnel becomes empty over a time period. When the clients dry up we go back to our funnel, which is empty and once again...