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The Importance of Your Business Website
During a time where consumers are using their smartphones for approximately 151 minutes, spending time in front of a computer for 103 minutes, and utilizing a tablet for 43 minutes every day, you would think that having a well-constructed company website would be a...
Three Tips to Make the Most of Your Pay Per Click Budget
Every brand wants to drive more traffic to their website. More traffic = higher probability of more sales and more revenue for your business. Surely, you have already search engine optimized (SEO) your website to ensure that you will appear in the top search results...
Tell Your Visitors What to Do: Effective Calls-to-Action
Have you ever signed up for something like Twitter, Facebook, Pandora, or Dropbox? How about subscribed to a company’s newsletter to get a discount or a magazine to receive your first free issue? If you have ever signed up for anything, you did so because the company...
How to Deal with Negative Feedback: A Guide for When You “Can’t Even.”
You might be here because you are new to the business world and want to be prepared to handle anything that comes your way. On the other hand exists the possibility that you are here because you have encountered that one customer, who practically read the handbook of...
Word of Mouth Interrogation: Getting Happy Customers to Talk
When you purchase a product or service, and it works as advertised, you don’t rush to tell your best friend, write a riveting review for the company online, or shout your happiness from the top of a mountain. Why is this? Because you and everyone else out there expect...
Social Success? How to Track Your Return on Investment
If you are investing your time and money on social media marketing efforts, you want to know if what you are doing is working and how it’s impacting your brand. Likewise, if someone else is spending their financial resources on you to manage their social media...
The Importance of Your Business Website
During a time where consumers are using their smartphones for approximately 151 minutes, spending time in front of a computer for 103 minutes, and utilizing a tablet for 43 minutes every day, you would think that having a well-constructed...
Why Social Media Is a Must Have for Your Business
With the ever-increasing technological world that we live in, you wouldn’t be surprised to find out that 74% of online adults use social networking sites. What you might not realize, however, is that only 55% of businesses are utilizing social media as a primary tool...
Professional Writing: The Planning Process
You probably heard about this concept way back in elementary school, and your educators continued to drill it into your head through high school and perhaps even college. For professional writing specifically, planning what you are going to write about and how you are...
Business Communications: Are You Flatlining?
You may be an excellent writer. You might even be an outstanding speaker. But are you an excellent communicator? It is so easy to get lost in all the noise of today’s world. So, make sure that you are heard and that your intended message is conveyed appropriately and...
Windows 10’s New Start Menu May Kill Live Tiles Forever
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Microsoft hasn’t officially announced it yet, but the writing is on the wall: Windows 10’s live tiles are going away. Windows 10X has a new Start menu without live tiles, and we expect it to arriv...
Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its bad side
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Chrome is seducing Microsoft Edge users with enticing bribesContent performance can be a difficult thing to gauge because there is a pretty wide collection of factors you could measure it by.
Is it in leads for actual product sales? Organic traffic? Google ranking? Featured snippets? Social media shares? Increasing brand visibility? A mix of all of them?
7 Free Blogging Tools to Analyze and Improve Your Performance
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This article takes a look at seven free blogging tools that will help you both monitor how you are doing and come up with ways to improve.Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Successful Entrepreneur? - Young Upstarts
Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Successful Entrepreneur? - Young Upstarts
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by T.W. Lewis, author of “Solid Ground: A Foundation For Winning In Work and In Life“ Many people dream of starting their own businesses, but, take it from me, it’s not easy. It took me eighteen...The world of marketing continues to evolve every year, and 2019 was no different. But with more marketing channels comes more confusion about where to invest limited budgets for the greatest return. Even as digital channels like social media and search engine optimization (SEO) continue to grow, “old-school” channels like direct mail and email still thrive because they still deliver results.
22 Marketing Experts: Here’s What To Expect In 2020
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Twenty-two marketing experts and practitioners recently responded to a survey about what to expect in marketing for 2020. Here's what they said.Great tips before starting a business
8 Legal Requirements When You Start A Business
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Here's what entrepreneurs need to do to avoid costly mistakes down the line.More people are working remotely and in most cases they are doing it alone. This is responsible for 20% of remote workers saying they struggle with loneliness.
20% of Remote Workers Are Lonely and More Remote Working Stats
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While most want to continue working the way they do, remote workers are lonely. That's just one of the stats in the 2020 State of Remote Work Report.Passive Income: The Ultimate Guide on How to Stop Trading Your Time For Money to Enjoy More Freedom and Love Your Business Again kimgarst.com/passive-income-for-service-based-businesses/
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Great blog post at Kim Garst | Marketing Strategies that WORK : Many service based businesses dream about passive income, but few know how to turn it into a reality. Plenty of us have this vision of p...