Archive for July, 2009
Evaluating Users on Your Website (Video)
Discover how visitors interact with your online forms: what they type, how long they take, which fields they skip, where they get stuck, and why they leave.
How to Optimize a Website (Video)
SnapMonkey offers a helpful tutorial on how to optimize a website for the search engines.
The New Wave of Micro Businesses
Historically, tough economic times have forced many people into some level of self-employment, and our current economic downturn is no exception.
When people’s hours are cut they may start a side business to make ends meet. And if they are laid off in a period if increasing unemployment, they might need to establish a startup [...]
Remote Workers Moving Into the Mainstream
Change has become America’s motto for dealing with a turbulent economy, and few things are changing more rapidly than our attitudes toward commuting to the office every day.
Not long ago, workers usually had to receive special permission from management to work from home for a day or two. Now, according to a new survey, managers [...]
Oh, Snap! Control Costs Using Stock Photography
A new survey conducted by International Communications Research shows that creative professionals are adjusting to today’s tough economic climate — and one of the key ways they are cutting costs is to use more stock photography.
“Increasingly, designers report taking on more concurrent projects while expanding their organizational and project management skills with greater awareness of [...]
Opportunities To Grow Your Small Business (Video)
Entrepreneurs can only see that to work harder is the answer to grow…however, it’s easier to double your business revenue plus take more time off.
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Self-Discipline for Success
There is one special quality that you can develop that will guarantee you greater success, accomplishment and happiness in life.
Of a thousand principles for success developed over the ages, this one quality or practice will do more to assure that you accomplish wonderful things with your life than anything else. This quality is so [...]
The Factory that Refused to Die
The Norwalk Custom Order Furniture factory in Norwalk, Ohio, is 430,000 square feet, enough to encompass four football fields. On a rainy June afternoon, though, the facility is quiet–except for the sounds of a radio playing 1970s rock classics and the occasional hum of a sewing machine or pop of a staple gun.
Business Update: Jobless Declines (Video)
The number of Americans receiving state unemployment benefits beyond the first week dropped to a three-month low, bolstering hopes the labor market’s pains may be easing.
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A Self-Employed Prescription For Health Reform
When it comes to health reform, the self-employed say cost containment is key. They also oppose mandating coverage unless there is substantial financial assistance to help pay for it.
Those are just two key findings in a new survey of self-employed individuals conducted by the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE).
The majority of the self-employed who [...]
Creative Ways to Showcase Business Personality
No matter what your business, if you expect to make an impact, you’ve got to create and maintain a business personality.
With communications changing at the speed of light, now is the time to get creative and go beyond just a logo on stationary.
Communicate
Give potential customers many ways to find and interact with you and [...]
Savvy Savings: Cutting Small Business Costs
In this economic environment, everyone is looking for resourceful ways to decrease spending and save money.
This is especially true for small business owners, as they look to reduce expenses, take advantage of discounts, increase cash flow and in turn, improve their business’s bottom line.
Here are several resourceful and creative ways that small business owners [...]
Four Keys to Avoiding Security Shortfalls
Four simple steps can take you a long way toward protecting the information on your computer.
It’s important because, according to research from Secure Enterprise 2.0 Forum, there has been a significant increase in the number of Web attacks lately. The report indicates that social networks, wikis and community blogging services and sites are the most [...]
Tips for ‘Chance Entrepreneurs’ Starting a Business
If you’ve been sending lots of resumes and getting the runaround, you’re not alone. According to the U.S. Labor Department, unemployment is the highest level in 25 years.
Is it any wonder that many unemployed, underemployed and workers fearing the loss of their jobs are now considering going into business for themselves? After all, if you’re [...]
Democracy & Socialism
“Why is it,” asks a correspondent, “that you are always talking of Democracy, and while you praise Socialism often, yet you insist that you are not a Socialist? Is not Socialism pure Democracy? Why don’t you come out flat for Socialism?”
Because Socialism is European. It is the best Europe can do. In America we have [...]
7 Simple Steps to Online Marketing Success
Creating a profitable business online is not a lot different than creating any other business, in that it’s just a process. Like any process, there are predictable steps to follow, and I’ve created a very simple 7-step process that will help you see how simple this is from a 30,000 foot view.
Pick Your Target [...]
Four Steps to Self-Management
Regardless of what we do, where we do it, or how well we do it, every business owner has exactly the same amount of time each day – time is the universal equalizer in that everyone, absolutely everyone, has the exact same number of minutes and hours in each day.
The key isn’t in time [...]
