After Your Website, What Next For Your Business? I found this on the Trinity Seven SEO blog. In today's business world most people know that one of the first things you need to do is set up a...
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More Than One Way to Help a Business Grow Here is a good article from the New York Times. There are several resources here to help grow your business plus several simple ideas in order to bring in...
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Filed in archive Taxes
by John Dornoff on November 13, 2007
Hiring a Savvy Tax Advisor Hate to say it, but it is almost that time of year again. There is one area where you need outside help and that is a tax advisor. The laws change every year and as......
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Small-business owners look everywhere to cut energy costs With rising energy cost, saving money becomes very important. This article has examples of what some small business people are doing to save...
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Quick advice to make your customers happier Here is a great blog entry from How to Start a Two-Bit Operation: Small Business Tips blog. Small businesses need to use every tool possible to stay ahead...
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Please hold: Businesses want to hear your order, not your call How many times has this happened to you? You are standing in line and the person ahead of you is so busy talking on their cell phone...
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Five things I love to see on web sites Here are some suggestions from the T&S web design blog on some things you need to take into consideration when designing your website. If you are designing...
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What Economic Slowdown? Small Businesses Grow Stronger Here is a great article for those worrying about the economic slowdown that is being predicted. I have said several times in this blog that as a...
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Filed in archive Start Up
by John Dornoff on November 08, 2007
Tips for a Successfull Start-Up Here is an excellent post from the small-bizXpress blog. I agree 1000% that you need to find something that you enjoy doing. Look toward your hobbies or other interest...
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40 years of low prices pay off for WinCo; Eagle store opens From the idaho statesman, here is a nice success story about a 40-year old grocery store that now covers a few states in the west. This...
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Rank Well In The Search Engines From the Small Biz Blog, here is an article on how to rank well with search engines. The ranking your website has on search engines is very critical in today's...
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Filed in archive Trends
by John Dornoff on November 06, 2007
Newspaper circulation down, Web readers up This article goes over another important trend that you as a small business owner needs to keep track of. The best person to evaluate that is you. How is...
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Unhealthy conflict hurts workers and the business Here is an article that brought up some bad memories for me. My last job before starting my own business was with a major retailer. My boss would try...
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SitePal Review - Case Study Reveals Huge Improvement In Conversions Here is a great article on how you can have a speaking avatar on your website. As stated many times, you as a small business owner...
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Extreme Makeover: Brand America Here is an interesting article on Branding with regard to branding America. This is a blog that focuses on branding and can offer some helpful hints to small business...
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How to Prepare a Budget One of the biggest problems for many small businesses is bookkeeping/accounting. While some may hire a good accountant to take care of the numbers for them, they still need to...
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Where shoppers find their way around the world Here is another one of those stories of a successful store that is in an industry that many consider outdated especially in this day of gps units and the...
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Risky Business From the Risky Business blog, a story on insurance and the California wildfires. This blog is run by an insurance agent and does have some good information. Insurance is not something...
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Green Grocers (and Bakeries) Here is another excellent story on a business that has gone green. This article goes into some of savings you can get by having a green operation. Once again this is...
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