by | Jul 5, 2017 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Sales & Marketing, Small Business Owners, Social Media Marketing, Web/Tech
If you think that video marketing isn’t an important part to growing your online presence, think again. According to recent studies, 85% of Internet users in the US watch online videos on a regular basis, including 4.3 billion online video ads. While we tend to skip...
by | Jun 14, 2017 | Cash Flow, Small Business Owners, Social Media Marketing
How many times has your competitor gotten one over on you? The feeling of being left behind just eats away, until you do something about. The problem is that we often feel that we've got to come up with some grand plan in order to get our business...
by | May 5, 2017 | Other, Sales & Marketing, Small Business Owners, Social Media Marketing, Web/Tech
With so many optin email lists out there, you really need to come up with a hook to attract subscribers. It needs to have something special or different. It could be something you offer inside every newsletter issue, like interviews with experts. Or the hook could be...
by | Apr 6, 2017 | Personal financial planning, Sales & Marketing, Small Business Owners, Social Media Marketing, Web/Tech
Have you been in a "brainstorming" session where each person just defended their own ideas? Worse is when people don't suggest ideas at all, for fear they'll be attacked. That's no way to brainstorm. Brainstorming is using the power of many...
by | Jan 27, 2017 | Sales & Marketing, Social Media Marketing
If you have a Facebook business page, you really should try adding a Facebook ad to your marketing. Facebook ads are an inexpensive way to reach a very targeted audience. When you create a Facebook ad, you first set your daily budget and when you want to start your...
by | Jan 6, 2017 | Business Success Series, Small Business Owners, Social Media Marketing
One of the big advantages a CPA has working with small business owners is that we get to learn what makes them profitable and what makes them fail. In a past blog I gave you a number of reasons small business fail. But while avoiding these reasons for...