Do you feel you wasted a lot of money on your website because customers just don't stay on it long enough to do business with you?Maybe make more enquiries? Or buy more services or products from you? If the majority of your potential customers are clicking away within seconds (bad bounce rate), it's a sign that your website is not very user or customer-friendly.Here are some tips to make your website more effective for your business.1. Keep Your...more
Starting a craft business can be a great way to make extra income. But, to turn your hobby into a business, you need to be professional.These five tips will help you be more professional at your first craft show.Tip One: Be PreparedPractice setting up your booth before you actually go to the show. Where will everything go? Keep a list of everything you use, so you know you won't forget anything. Also, take a picture so you won't forget the...more
Booklet printing is a great way to attract attention to your business. Incorporate booklet printing into your next promotional campaign and you may be more than pleasantly surprised at the positive results this could achieve.Printing companies offer different styles of print, paper weights, design and binding so be sure to look at all the options available. Remember to check out online services too for some great savings for bulk printing and second time prints.The Diary Calendar Year or Financial PlannerFor the calendar year - diaries designed with a specific topic in mind can make a great gift for special customers or can become a product for sale in their own right. If you run a nursery or garden centre use the gardening theme with images at strategically placed points in the diary. For instance, announce the beginning of a new season and give advice on what flowers or shrubs should be planted.For the financial year this is a great marketing idea for anyone in the financial services industry. Having financial year diaries for sale or use as gifts of appreciation to staff are a sensible promotional tool. Target small businesses with advice on checklists for end of month...more
Many chiropractors create a business plan in order to get small business financing. But this isn't the only reason you should take the time to write a chiropractic business plan. Even if you are able to fund your expansion plans out of your own pocket, or through the generosity of a rich uncle, putting your chiropractic business plan on paper can...more
The age of cookie-cutter marketing and advertising is soon to pass. More and more advertisers are now coming up with unique tactics to market services and products offline. This article discusses some of the more acceptable, not to mention more effective, unique offline marketing gimmicks that have emerged in recent years.An Interview...more
Online business directory can be considered as a powerful tool for establishing a persons business presence among number of internet users. Gone are the days when people had to rely on those offline types of business directories which were in the form of a thick book having hundreds of pages. Now, with the help of the internet, businesses can be easily produced in front of the person through online business directory. However, you must know how to effectively promote your business directory. There are different ways of promoting your online businesses directory. They are as follows:1) Use social networking sites:Every day, many people are busy using social networking sites, such as twitter, myspace and facebook. It is on these sites, you can opt for discussing and promoting the benefits of listing peoples business to your online business directory. Social networking sites have the capacity to search many people and businesses. Be active on social networking sites by making friends and posting from time to time. Remember to provide your directory link on your profile side of the social networking sites. Once people see your link on the profile page, they can then directly visit your...more
MYOB is a powerful and versatile software package that will assist any business to improve its business productivity. There are a variety of MYOB courses available that will show you how you can not only set up your records properly, but also how to...more
In much the same way that the emergence of the internet revolutionized the world, cloud computing is revolutionizing the way businesses operate. At its core, 'cloud computing' is the process of sharing IT resources to achieve more power and...more
Here is a simple 5 Step process to help get you started out on the right track..1. Finding a stock.This is the most obvious and most difficult step in stock trading. With well over 10,000 stocks to trade in a good guideline is to consider first in...more
If you are working in almost any capacity in the corporate world, if you are working in business today, then you will be required to make presentations to others.These presentations may be infrequent for you but nevertheless they'll be important....more
Networking is a tool that will put you on the path towards success.Businesses are grown from the personal relationships we develop throughout our career and being able to reach out and build positive business connections can be the single most...more
The 5 tips for sales development follows:Tip 1: You will have less likelihood of sales success until you isolate and address those Hidden Weaknesses that will put the brakes on a sale person's ability to improve. In order for sales development to be...more