For Small Business, Social Media Interest is Up 12%

For Small Business, Social Media is reporting the highest level of growth in terms of interest and plans to implement. This seems logical, especially since social media has a low cost and barrier to entry for SMB’s

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What to do AFTER you launch a website

A few quick tips that you can do to give your newly launched website a push to help search engines notice it more quickly.

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Don’t Trust the Sales Guy

Small business owners are getting ripped off by undereducated and quota driven sales people that are less concerned with your success and more concerned with their commission check.

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How One Restaurant Used Social Media Successfully

An example of how Fuego Mundo a South American infused restaraunt in Atlanta, GA used social media to decide it’s name, pricing and even menu. Very helpful information for small business owners who are considering leveraging social media marketing.

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Why Hasn't Your Business Tried This?

First of all, this post is not about Guy Frieri. Actually the dude drives me nuts. This post is about using video to market a business. It dawned on me walking into the office today. Americans love reality television. Yea we already knew that. We’ve pretty much voted it the most watched format for the [...]

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WordPress and Small Business Just Became Better Friends

WordPress just made it easier for small business owners to capture leads from their website. When a small business uses WordPress to build a website, they can benefit by installing this new SalesForce application to make lead organization and follow-up easier.

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Small Business and the Big O

The “Main Street Revolution Initiative” gives merchants access to Overstock’s national distribution channel. “By joining our network these small businesses can reduce their supply chain costs and open their products to a mass audience,” says Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock, No. 28 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide.

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How To Use Google Search Story to Create a Video for Your Business

Google has created a new service called Google Search Stories that allows you to create a quick 35 second video that tells a story using Google search, images, videos and music to create a timeline of events that explain your story in video format. Too cool!

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37 percent of small businesses have not used a Web site for marketing

When it comes to leveraging online tools for business growth, small business executives 45-years-old and older are less likely to use online tools than younger small business executives.

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Blogs and Twitter convert visitors into leads for Small Business

Among business-to-consumer (B2C) small and medium-sized companies studied, more than one-half of those using Twitter generated double the median monthly leads of non-Twitter users. That result held across company size.

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