A recent headline on the investment site Seeking Alpha read, “The Honeymoon is Over for Wix.” Wix is one of several web businesses that make it easy for anyone – and the word anyone is important here – to create a good-looking and functional website. It competes with other online services like Weebly and Squarespace. […]
If we can boil down what is required to grow a small business we might get to this overarching truth: Everyone must be moving in the same direction. Anyone with a Facebook account has seen enough videos of people trying to herd cats that they know how pointless and frustrating that is. That truth applies […]
The importance of how you engage people is highlighted in this week’s collection of curated content from around the Internet; we should probably credit Dale Carnegie with these fundamental principles that extend even into the virtual world today. Leadership, management, and productivity In this interview I explain why you need to develop a mission statement […]
In a 2014 Copyblogger survey, nearly half of the respondents didn’t know what “native advertising” was. Are you in the group that doesn’t know what native advertising is? The survey, as I understand it, measured the general population, but for purposes of our discussion I want to break that down into two groups: Small business […]
There are a lot of jokes that contain the line, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.” But putting the satire aside for a moment, the Small Business Administration website can prove very helpful for established, new and proposed small businesses, and I want to point you at a free tool you […]