Of course, difficult times call for improved knowledge and skills, but thy are essential in every phase of a business cycle.  They allow you to maintain your edge and increase your lead over your competition.
Here is a collection of 15 different websites that will help you sharpen your business skill set in a number of [...]

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Whether you have a mainly offline (bricks and mortar) business or an online business, the social media are some of the latest and best sources of income.  Think of them as another profit center, another way for your business to expand.
Twitter is one of the most important of the social media in the Web 2.0 sphere.  It [...]

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 A Critical Marketing Process: Know, Like, and Trust
That is the psychological process your customer experiences in the process of developing the affinity bond with you and your business.
Every person prefers to purchase goods and services from someone he or she knows.  That makes sense, doesn’t it?  If you know someone, you feel more comfortable with [...]

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The Power of Personal Thank You Notes

You are not in the business you think you’re in! You are actually in the business of building personal relationships. Accepting this principle and deploying it via multiple channels is an extremely powerful business building technique.

Think for a moment . . . . How often are you personally contacted by anyone with whom you do business? Remember the last time a business personally thanked you for having done business with that organization. The truth is you may not be able to remember having been thanked personally.

When . . . and if . . . you were, didn’t that business stand out rivited in your mind? . . .

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7 Ways to Stimulate Word-of-Mouth Advertising

Often when discussing what advertising or marketing tools a small business employs, we hear the response,  “We use word-of-mouth.”  When we ask that business owner or manager, “Do you know seven ways to stimulate or improve word-of-mouth business?” they give us a blank look, as though, “It never occurred to [...]

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