Monday, May 28, 2012

New On Line Business Blog Launches

Photo credit: "NextGenBizTools"

Debra has been doing business online since the mid 90's. In online marketing that's kinda like having been around since the ice age. Most of us were not even online let alone trying to sell product. Having such a great wealth of knowledge on the topic Debra has launched a new blog that I believe to be a valuable addition to your reading list. To day I feature just one of her posts as it deals with the question that every new business start up is faced with today. Should my new business be "bricks and mortar" or should it be "Bits and Bytes"    

"Why start an online business rather than a traditional business?

That might have been a valid question ten, maybe fifteen years ago, but I believe the question today has become why would anyone start anything BUT an online business? Read on to learn more about the many advantages of online business, some obvious and some not so obvious over traditional brick and mortar business models." read more

Source: "NextGenBizTools" written by Debra Lloyd

"Leading Edge Tips & Tools for Online Business"

Friday, March 30, 2012

Is Your Business Going Online With Your Customers?

Image credit - Ed Yourdon
"The way businesses connect with their customers has changed dramatically in the past 20 years. The Internet completely revamped the way we do business. Today, however, another trend-within-a-trend is once again changing things up. Social media have taken the consumer marketplace by storm. Rather than looking to the yellow pages or calling up a friend for a recommendation, customers are seeking others pinions on Facebook and Twitter"


So maybe it's more accurate to say that the way that customers connect with businesses is really what has changed. Remember the three keys to success in business. Location, location, location! If your business is not where your customers are then you don't get sales and without sales your business dies. Example Research In Motion (Blackberry) The company refused to move forward with new technology when it evolved and their customers are moving forward without them. The company is going down the tubes. :(


To learn more about what your customers already know. 


This guest post was submitted to The Anywhere Office by Dominick Frasso of Vistage International


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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Bottom Line: Small Businesses NEED to CONNECT online!











"There was a standing-room-only crowd in the ground-level conference room inside Chenery Auditorium on Oct. 21, 2011.


People who were late were turned away. People who found seats seemed to be enthused.
It was not a musical concert, a comedy show or a school performance.
It was more than 200 small business people attending either of two sessions to learn how they could: 1. Get their businesses online; or 2. Find ways to make their online presence count.
"I need a presence," said Cheryl Hartman, a certified public accountant from Union City who attended to learn how to set up a website for her 15-year-old business and "hopefully to generate revenue and attract new customers."
“Research shows that small businesses create two-thirds of all the new jobs,” said E.T. Michael Miller, director of online sales for Google in Michigan, which co-hosted the gathering. “But nationally, 63 percent of small businesses don't have a website and 59 percent here in Michigan don't have a website.”"
The bottom line is: small businesses NEED to CONNECT online!!! 
CLICK HERE to read this entire article  (A Primmer for Small Business) 
Article written by:  Al Jones | ajones5@mlive.com  
Published by: www.mlive.com 

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 Being a small business owner in the world today can be very challenging. It's all about change. Technology seems to be driving everything and the geek types that drive the technology LOVE change.

How do you as a small business owner keep pace with all these changes. If you thought you have to use the Internet to stay connected with your customers, you are right. But you say...NO! I DON'T WANT TO. I don't understand how the Internet works. I don't want to hire an Internet marketing type who is just going to take advantage of me and leave me high and dry. Even worse off that I am now.

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