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Expanding Your Company: 5 Tips Every Business Owner Needs to Consider

As a business owner, the best way to make more money is to generate more business. But isn’t that the question of the year? How as a business can I grow my customer base and in turn make more profit?

How to Create a Color Scheme for Your Brand

Every day we’re bombarded by thousands of colors, and each one has an effect on our thoughts and emotions. Research reveals that we make subconscious judgments within just 90 seconds of viewing a product or space, and 62–90% of this judgment is based on color alone!

5 Ways for Small Businesses to Expand on a Budget

Small businesses are hamstrung by limited funds, a handful of employees, and a limited capability to actually expand to reach new markets. Because of this, thinking of new, cheap alternatives to increase sales is crucial.

3 Things Every Startup Needs to Know

While working to attract your first customers (hopefully the first of many), you need to ensure your customer service approach is on the mark to retain those customers and strengthen those all-important B2C relationships. Here are three tips that every startup needs to know.

Color ROI: Color Associations and Logos

The people at BestPsychologyDegrees.com have put together a great infographic about color and marketing, looking at all different aspects of how to use color in marketing.

What Call Volume Says About Your Sales Team

Call volume, or the number of dials made, is a top line measure of how your outbound prospecting team is doing. It is an indicator of each rep’s effort, not the caliber of their calls. But dials that lead to deals can only happen if your reps invest a lot of time into dialing.

How the Right Customer Service Can Boost Your Customer Following

While working to entice new customers is important, it is far less expensive to retain current ones. Great customer service is a sure-fire way to earn customer referrals, which will in turn go the extra mile towards building your commercial rep.

Color ROI: Color for Kids and Color Preferences

The people at BestPsychologyDegrees.com have put together a great infographic about color and marketing, looking at all different aspects of how to use color in marketing.

Feed the Goog

Google has made two statements in the past; one a few years ago and the other quite recently, that I think pretty much tell us all where The Great and Powerful Goog wants to take the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs).

How to Use Your Invoices to Finance Your Growing Business

One of the challenges of working in the B2B space is that most commercial clients don’t pay their invoices as soon as you deliver your product or service. Instead, companies ask for 30- to 60-day payment terms.