Accelerators: A Recent and Positive Trend
Are you a candidate for an accelerator? You’ll give up some small amount of equity to the accelerator, receive some amount of cash in return during the program, and learn more in a short time than you’d expect from more formal education programs.
Read More Keeping Your Bricks and Mortar Store Relevant in the Digital Age
In order to succeed in the digital age, the traditional bricks and mortar store needs to make changes that enable them to move with the times. By embracing the multi-channel retail solutions available, you can keep your bricks and mortar store relevant in the digital age.
Read More 5 Essential Rules for Email Marketing in 2014
Email marketing strikes many people as old-fashioned or even dead. The reality doesn’t agree though. In fact, with a solid content marketing approach, email is stronger than ever. It’s a great way to reach your customers without spending a lot of money.
Read More What to Keep in Mind During Your First Year as an S Corp
Lots of business owners opt for the S Corp option because of the limited liability protection, the ability to raise money by selling shares, and to gain credibility.
Read More Acronyms: Does BS Stand for Business Strategy?
Real business strategy is mostly just focus. It’s about what you don’t do, sort of like how a marble sculpture is formed by what’s removed from the original block. Focus on what you and your business do best, what you do better and different, and then focus on a specific set of potential customers and focus again on building exactly what they want or need.
Read More We are currently running Windows XP and are considering leasing computers from Mac/Apple, is it worth it?
QuickBooks, Office, and other business software for Macs can be purchased; however, other than the efficiencies of Macs with heavy graphics and similar uses, we are not aware of any particular advantage that Macs have over PCs in the area of reliability, speed, life, or long-term cost of ownership.
Read More 3 Time-Saving Hacks to Help You Close More Sales
I think we can all agree that a salesperson’s time is their most valuable asset. I’ve been in sales longer than I can remember, so I know very well from experience just how much a salesperson’s effectfiveness can suffer by limiting their productivity and misusing their time.
Read More What is a DDos Attack, and How Can I Protect My Business?
Are you aware of the latest threat to your online business? It goes by the innocuous sounding name of DDoS. As yet, nobody has figured out how to protect society from this new evil. Like car theft, it doesn’t affect you every day, but when it does, it causes dramatic (and traumatic) disruption and loss.
Read More Small Business Tips: When to Buy a Food Truck
In 2006, the real estate market in south Florida collapsed. Two brothers who were developers building houses on spec saw their business turn upside down as a result. They did what any Italian true-to-his roots would do; they bought a pizza truck.
Read More How the Internet Has Shifted Commerce into High Gear
With eCommerce sales on track for a 20% growth up to $1.5 trillion in 2014, it’s safe to say that the Internet has revolutionized the way we do business. Through the power of the web, a small business owner can reach entire countries, or, with the right logistics, the entire planet, using a single website.
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