These days a lot of attention is being placed on gaining the trust of your site’s visitors and the followers of your brand. But the Internet can be a fickle place. While building and cultivating that trust can take a tremendous amount of time and work, it can be destroyed in an instant by one […]
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Your Competitor Lowered His Prices: Don’t Panic, Follow These Strategic Steps
As the economy continues to struggle, many small business owners are finding that they have to compete more and more for consumers’ attention and wallets. It’s no secret that price can be a huge motivator in people’s minds today as they go about making their purchase decisions. In an attempt to keep their sales levels up, many […]
9 American Entrepreneurs Who Went from Dirt Poor to Stinking Rich
The American Dream may seem very far these days for the average American struggling to get by. But behind all the mushy idealism, the truth is there are those who live a real rags to riches lives. The following are ten famous American entrepreneurs who left their poor beginnings behind to become some of the […]
5 Steps to Win Back an Unhappy Customer
Coming up against an unhappy customer can be unpleasant at best and downright damaging at at worst- threatening to drive away other customers and derail your efforts to run a successful business. But it is an inevitable part of doing business. You just can’t please everyone all the time. That said, there are many ways […]
Why Today Small Biz Owners Can’t Afford to Ignore Google
Given the way people use the Internet to make purchasing decisions these days, if you own a small brick and mortar business you really need to invest in your online presence. Just make sure that investment includes Google and it’s social network G+. So I’ll stop here and say that this is not a post […]