Ready to be in business for yourself? Whether you’re selling goods from your kitchen table or services from an office, here are six skills every entrepreneur need in order to be successful!   1. Time Management As a self-employed entrepreneur, you will generally be responsible for your own daily schedule. While client demands may help […]

 After several years of working with many businesses in the marketing field, I've come across my list of the top two ways to really grow your business. Those that seem to follow this process have proven to scale their business really well and very quickly with a great outcome.  #1 Hire a Marketing Professional.(This is not [...]

  According to an article from Wordstream.com,   Social media marketing is, “. . .a form of internet marketing that involves creating and sharing content on social media networks in order to achieve your marketing and branding goals. Social media marketing includes activities like posting text and image updates, videos, and other content that drives [...]

Business Weekly Reading Eagle By David A. Kostival Ever since we were introduced to the Internet, we began discovering websites. Today, we can't live without them and view hundreds, perhaps thousands, every year. We use them for education, working, shopping, entertainment, travel and gathering all sorts of information. Viewing that many sites should make us [...]

PRO's 1. This is the first initial review of Thumbtack. First off, I can honestly say as far as usability, the website layout is great! It's easy to navigate and setup is a breeze. We recommended setting up your account on the desk top version of course as the mobile version does not seem to [...]

Today’s largest businesses are really taking blogging seriously. They are not about to sit back and let the rest of the world reap the advantages while they don’t. Successful business people are intelligent. They know how much blogging can connect people together. They know that by using blogs within their organizations, they can easily and [...]

Not long ago, a diary was a deeply personal thing — a journal of thoughts and observations, kept under lock and key and often buried in a dresser drawer.   The Web has a way of changing things. Now, a diary of thoughts, observations and insight — posted on the Internet — may be a [...]

Nothing in the business world is easy. Everything has to be done with hard work, purpose and good strategy.   Let’s face it, most promotional materials especially brochures end up in the basket. Most companies spend their time writing everything about the company in the brochure instead of focusing on their services and products and [...]

The goal of each SMM program varies from business to business, but mainly involves building of brand awareness, increasing visibility and through this, sale of a product or service.   Social Media Marketing (SMM) is a form of Internet marketing, which seeks to achieve branding and marketing communication goals through the participation in various social [...]

How many times have you refreshed the graphics or content of your website? Twice? Once? Not at all?   Many businesses are still hosting first-generation sites that went up at the turn of the millennium. Likewise, the majority of these sites are passé by today's "make-it-useful" standards. Sometimes embarrassingly so.   Internet-savvy businesses will refresh [...]

  Some business owners struggle with the idea of starting a business website. Why do you really need a website? Well, there are several solid reasons why every business, small or large, should have a website. It does not matter if you sell tangible products, or you offer a service, your business will benefit from [...]

You've built a website. Wonderful! The next question to ask is this: Once you get a visitor's attention, how can you bring them back?   Of course, you don't want every visitor returning, but rather customers and potential customers. Articles and other content published on your site should be relevant, interesting and well written. Unique [...]

Why Business Web Hosting?   When you have an online business your website is your first impression, it’s how you greet your current as well as prospective customers. Every little glitch or server error is a statement of who you are as a company. It may not be fair and many of the problems that [...]

  We hear people say this all the time. So let’s talk about why this could be happening. First, it could be general SEO practices that are missing like alt tags, meta tags, descriptions, page titles etc. Those are general things that are looked at to determine if you are properly following the standard. But [...]

An explanation video is an internet video that explains your product, service, business, widget or app. In today’s fast paced web surfing world, you have under a minute to grab a visitor’s attention. Your visitors are savvier and don’t want to waste time clicking, reading and scrolling in order to decipher your message, SO DON’T [...]