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Archive for June, 2009
So you’ve heard that Twittering is the way to grow your business and you’ve decided to give it a try. But you don’t know how to use it effectively. Here are some tips to get you started:
Start with a Plan…
Looking for an easy, fast way to be listed on the first page of Google? Here’s the secret!
The answer is Google Local Business Listings. If you have a storefront, a homebased business, or even an internet business that has people…
A very effective way of producing an online catalog that your customers can print out is to add it to your website as a pdf file. Search engines read and catalog a pdf file just like they do web pages. I…
“There’s just not enough time!” is a statement that we hear daily. As we take on more and more activities and work longer hours to grow our business, we feel frustrated and overwhelmed. Most of the time, it comes down…
I’m going to make two statements that seemingly contradict each other:
- The best form of marketing is networking.
- It’s hard to get business from networking events.
Both are true. And my perspective is a result of attending a number of networking events through the…
On a couple of the gift basket forums, there have been several discussions about not only surviving, but thriving in today’s economy. Once Father’s Day is behind us, there aren’t a whole lot of “holidays” to market gift baskets for. …
Ken Blanchard, author of “The One Minute Manager and other business books” , told the story about the little boy who really wanted to beat his grandmother at Monopoly. He studied. He practiced. He learned. Until one day, he beat…
A lot of you probably say that you don’t have time to start a blog because you don’t have the time or creativity to write long posts on the blog. My answer to that is: Blog posts don’t have to…
For those of you who have watched the economic series on the CBS Evening News and are in the Gift Basket Industry, don’t be discouraged by it. Unfortunately, the news media always plays up the negative and the gloom and…




