Resurrect Your Old Business Contacts
Posted on March 31, 2007 - Filed Under Customer Service, Marketing - Leave a Comment
You doubtless maintain a rolodex of business cards of sorts for your business. Now when was the last time you went through those cards, and I don’t mean to look for a particular contact?
Here’s an interesting marketing tip for you. Go through your business cards and sort them into two stacks - one for the people who’ve [...]
Increase the Font Size on your Blog Posts
Posted on March 31, 2007 - Filed Under Blogging - Leave a Comment
One of the things I’ve noticed about blog posts is that the font size tends to be too small. On a page full of text, small fonts can be quite a squint causing your readers to quickly lose interest.
Personally I believe in a legible-sized font. You don’t have to be stuck with the preset font size on [...]
How to Work Your Home Business More Efficiently
Posted on March 30, 2007 - Filed Under Home Business - Leave a Comment
For the home business owner, one of the biggest challenges is keeping several balls up in the air. It’s not uncommon to find us juggling home, family, home business and sometimes even a part-time job outside home.
Yet to grow our business, we need to devote a certain amount of time to working online and at [...]
Clearing the Language Hurdle
Posted on March 30, 2007 - Filed Under Culture - Leave a Comment
My technical problems remain unsolved, can you believe it? I know, it’s been over a week. I’m making do the best I can under the circumstances and praying that my subscribers are receiving my ezines on time and in one piece.
But not from lack of trying. I’ve been working with my host server support guys [...]
Breathe Life into Your Home Business
Posted on March 29, 2007 - Filed Under Advertising, Blogging, Business Networking, Marketing, Web Necessities - Leave a Comment
Have you been struggling with sales? Are you lamenting that you haven’t made a single cent from your online business, and that no matter what you do, you just haven’t been able to secure any sales?
Well, if it’s any consolation, you’re not alone. There are many business owners just like you while those who consistently [...]
Customer service and Culture - Where the twain shall meet
Posted on March 29, 2007 - Filed Under Customer Service, Lessons in Business - Leave a Comment
I was out over the weekend, went to a few places and actually had a much better customer service experience in almost all of the places I went to. That was nice!
One salesperson actually thanked me, no questions asked, after I went back to their bookstore to exchange a book.
A waitress actually came up to my [...]
Make More Money by Marketing to Fewer People!
Posted on March 29, 2007 - Filed Under Marketing - Leave a Comment
What? Okay, I have to say this throws me off, completely. Here I am trying to expand my business reach and here’s someone saying I should limit it and still make more money?
Sounds like a dream, yet it seems to defy logical explanation. Yet there is a secret to this … well, I won’t tell ya just yet. Try and [...]
Home Businesses You Can Easily Slip into Your Daily Schedule
Posted on March 28, 2007 - Filed Under Business Ideas - Leave a Comment
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One of the biggest plus points of working from home is you don’t have to limit yourself to just one business. You have so much flexibility in terms of what you can do with your time. You can slip in any number of money-making activities as [...]
Neat way to set up schedule reminders
Posted on March 28, 2007 - Filed Under Business Management - Leave a Comment
If you’re a busy busy person like me, balancing business and family, there’s a real good chance you might become absent-minded about scheduled business tasks that you need to do.
Here’s a quick tip I’d like to share:
Use Outlook’s calendar to schedule the stuff that you need to run, like ezine publications, ads, system backups, the [...]
Blog Templates - Two Columns or Three?
Posted on March 27, 2007 - Filed Under Blogging, Business Diary - Leave a Comment
I’m wondering which is better, a two-column blog or a three-column one? I guess if you want to keep things uncluttered, a two-column template would do quite nicely.
That’s not to say that a three-column template would necessarily spell clutter. It all depends on how much stuff you want to put up.
And looking at the way things are [...]