Am I the only one using Google Alerts? I have found it to be an easy way to keep track of press clippings and do online research. I get information for my various client blogs sent right to my inbox. How cool is that? Are you getting the maximum use out of this free Google tool?
Category Archive: business consulting
Tips on Making Up a Lost Hour
We lost an hour this weekend because of the switch to Daylight Savings Time. If you are like many small business owners, you need more hours every day, not less. Here are a couple ideas on how to get that hour back and build a more successful small business while doing so. 1) Learn to …
Website Traffic Building Ideas for the Small Business
Every small business online quickly discovers that you need to have traffic to make any website or blog successful. Just as quickly, you’ll discover that traffic is an elusive thing to find. Traffic, traffic, traffic. The fact: building traffic to a website or blog takes time. It doesn’t happen overnight. Even if you find the …
Installing System Updates — A Necessary Process for Successful Small Business Owners
Does your computer do this to you? I woke up this morning, all rarin’ to go, ready to finish up some market research I owe a client on, of all things, reikki for animals (this is the small business she wants to start and by golly, I think there may be a market for it …
Attack With Hummus and Other Great Problem-Solving Ideas for Small Business Success
Success takes action. Sometimes it is simply that easy. If you want to be successful at building a small business, you have to beat the paralysis of analysis and do something. I met with two small business owners and their staff about a year ago who were struggling with knowing what do to next. They …
Beat the Paralysis of Analysis. Action Leads to Small Business Success
Admit it. When you first thought about starting a small business of your own,you got really excited. You were going to set the world on fire. But then you spent WAY too much time surfing the web, reading sales letters that go on and on, pulling out your credit card to buy this and to …