Small Business Tips

3 Reasons I Don’t Care That Pinterest Skims Links

This is a repost ”repin” of a response that I had to the news that Pinterest, the rocketing (invite only) social networking site secretly profits from user links that get pushed through the site with “repins”. +Keith Bloemendaal, the founder of Tilt Shift Marketing started a discussion about this Pinterest drama on Google+ between +Mike Stenger and myself in [Continue Reading]

How to Be Sure If Your New Business Idea Will Make It

This is a guest post by Jemima Lopez, a freelance blogger and writer who writes for Zen College Life, the directory of higher education, distance learning, and online degrees. 2012 is predicted to be the Year of the Entrepreneurs. Even though the economy is still taking its sweet time recovering, new small businesses seem to [Continue Reading]

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How can a marketer benefit from Google Analytics adding non-interaction event tracking?

Google first introduced event tracking to Google Analytics, its free web analytics program, in June of 2009. Back then, there was a lot excitement surrounding the new feature. The reason? Because it made it possible to track file downloads, site errors, and other “non-page” elements associated with a website. However, it was only a matter [Continue Reading]

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5 Best Tanning Salon Suppliers

The indoor tanning season is here, which means that tanning salon owners like myself have stepped up interaction with their suppliers or started looking for new suppliers to work with through the tanning season. Excluding my Salon Touch salon software rant from a couple of years ago I’ve really stayed limited on how much I [Continue Reading]

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Make Money Blogging – 3 Skin Care Strategies To Increase Earnings

Do you want to increase your earnings online? I want to show you the 3 skin care strategies I learnt about 3 months ago and how it’s boosted my affiliate earnings. But you can apply these tips to any business you’re currently into. Let’s assume you’re full time blogger and want to make money with [Continue Reading]

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Extreme Ways to Boost Your Business Credit Rating

Due to the current economic climate, it is becoming increasingly more difficult to be approved for credit, especially if you are a new business that is trying to get started. If you didn’t know, your business credit rating is worked out separate to your personal credit rating and the checks are carried out by business [Continue Reading]

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7 Reasons Your Pitch Sucks

Here we are, all of us just trying to make a living or in some cases looking to capitalize on a massive ground breaking idea that generates ba-ba-billions. Achieving success will certainly require (at the very least) determination and promotion. When it comes down to promoting that sexy product, service or even ones self there’s [Continue Reading]

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Friday Free For All: What Is Your Tip For New Entrepreneurs?

It’s that time of the week again and this week I want to know about what tips you would offer new entrepreneurs. Yes, it’s just the “Friday Free-for-All” #FridayFreeforAll series of posts, my way for all of the small business owners and entrepreneurs that read my blog throughout the week to come together and share [Continue Reading]

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5 Smart Techniques To Drive Buyer Traffic With Press Release Distribution

Are you still struggling to drive the right traffic to your blog? Give me just 5 minutes and I’ll show you how press release works and the right mindset that guarantees productivity in media syndication. We all know it; web traffic is the lifeblood of every successful online business. It doesn’t matter what you’re selling, [Continue Reading]

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The Contemporary Means of Outdoor Marketing

Outdoor media advertising is a viable option for any type of firm to increase their visibility and improve their revenue streams. A few of the most popular means are included in this article to provide insight into this method of advertising. Backlit Translites The backlit translites are one of the most popular methods of outdoor [Continue Reading]

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10 Tips for Marketing Your Brand or Product with Pinterest

Pinterest is quickly becoming the “talked about” thing, well one of the thousands and thousands of talked about things. I’ve seen articles about Pinterest increase explode in my NetNewsWire over the past few weeks, and discussion about the “pinboard” site seems to be daily around my house these days. Being a marketing addict I couldn’t [Continue Reading]

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How Can a Marketer Take Advantage of Trending Topics on Google+?

Google has quietly been rolling out new features to make its Google+ platform more competitive in the social space. While most updates have seemingly been made to keep pace with Facebook (e.g. the new branded pages), one of the latest features appears to be a direct response to Twitter. Google recently introduced a trending topics [Continue Reading]

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7 Ways Investors Help Your Startup (beyond just Cash)

Startups need more than money; they need experience, expertise, and connections. If you’re going to hit the ground running, you need more than just a good idea and some cash. One of the best ways to empower your startup is to target investors who bring more to the table than simply a checkbook. Remember that [Continue Reading]

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3 Keys to Running a Successful Daily Discount

One thing that I’ve done in my small business for as long as I can remember is a daily special or at the very least a random daily special to generate sales. Running daily specials for my tanning salon business can lead to a few issues. Issues that end with frustrated associates and customers and [Continue Reading]

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