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The “Making it!” Small Business & Entrepreneur Digest features a diverse selection of articles relating to entrepreneurial thinkers and business people

which will provide valuable motivation and guidance in all your business endeavors.

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Smart Marketing & Advertising: Don't Overlook The Obvious

By: Andrea Giambrone

 

What does a consumer think of when they hear your company’s name? You’d be amazed how different it can be from what you’d like them to be thinking.

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Latest Business Article!

Business Ideas on a Budget

This is a great one going into the holiday season. Believe it or not, there are people who wouldn't be caught dead going anywhere near a mall, but they're not comfortable with buying certain items online, either.

 

 

5 Things to Remember When Starting a Business

There are thousands of tasks that every small business owner must consider and do in order to set up a new business. However, whether you are a new small business owner or an experienced entrepreneur, here are five things to remember when setting up a small business.

Start-up Advice for the City Girl on a Budget

What are the first steps you need to take when starting a business ?

I have outlined some crucial steps that will help guide you in the right direction.

 

 

 

Getting Your Business "Off the Ground"

What is dinering your performance and success? You didn't plan on it taking so long to get "off the ground".  The economy seems to be coming back, why isn't the money flowing it?

 

 

Entrepreneur Guide to Profit

During troubling economic times, Americans are increasingly choosing to demonstrate their entrepreneurial spirit. More home based businesses and small businesses are being started by persons looking to experience Entrepreneur Profit.

 

6 Tips to Start and Run a Successful Business

It’s not something that most of us would dare venture, but starting your own business venture does have its share of excitement. There are pessimists who say that 9 out of 10 new ventures fail, but then, failure is a relative term.

 

Business Startup Funding
One of the greatest tools needed to overcome hurdles in business is to seek for the solutions to surmount these hurdles.

 

 

Business Startup The Easy Way? Franchise, MLM, & Existing Businesses
Entrepreneurs who aren’t sure what kind of business to start, but know they want to be on their own are often drawn to the idea of buying a ready made business.

 

 

18 PR Tips for Startups
PR is one of the most misunderstood disciplines in the marketing department and many startup entrepreneurs are quick to under estimate and under value it.

 

Top Ten Startup Mistakes: That Almost Always Lead To Business Failure
Get on the road to success and learn top mistakes to avoid when starting a business.

 

 

Facts and Figures About Starting an Online Home Business
Starting a home business, especially online, is an exciting challenge and it can be a very rewarding experience too if you follow a few simple steps.

 

 

How a Start-Up Business Can Look

Like a Professional Organization
One of the most challenging aspects of starting a successful business is getting noticed as a professional organization.

 

 

Bootstrapping Basics Entrepreneurs Need to Know
One key to success is bootstrapping. Here is some practical advice for bootstrapping a start-up or small business.

 

7 Tips on Starting a Business

After You Have Lost Your Job

Thinking about the world of entrepreneurship? Here are some tips to get you started on the right path.

 

Top 10 Tips for Entrepreneurs to Start and Stay in Business

Starting a new business? Follow these tips and you’ll be well on your way to entrepreneurship.

 

 

Starting Up A Business - How to do Break Even Analysis

Break-even analysis is a good tool for quickly determining if an idea has any legs under it.

 

Does Your Business Have a

Plan? It Should

Here are the benefits of budgeting, planning, and performance measurement for your business.

Latest Business Article!

Excellent Customer Service: A Must for Small Business

Any business, especially a small business, needs repeat customers to survive. To achieve this, a business needs to offer excellent customer service. Great customer service is essential to help small businesses attract and retain the customers they need to survive and compete against the big boys, and more so in a downturn economy.

 

7 Tips to Attract New Customers

In order to build and maintain strong relationships with customers, many companies are turning to customer-relationship management (CRM) software packages.  These programs allow companies to store and quickly access important sales, marketing, and other critical data about customers.

 

 

What the New Consumer Mindset Means for Marketing

Watching the changes in their own neighborhoods, as stores close and foreclosure signs keep popping up on their streets, has made even the most carefree consumers more conscious of their spending habits.

 

How to Turn an Unhappy Customer into a Happy Customer

If you want to be successful and happy as an entrepreneur, you need to start thinking about situations like this in a non-toxic way. Here are some alternative ways of thinking and dealing with Yipes-The-Customer-Might-Fire-Me issues.

 

How Are You the Customer You Seek?

In truth, there were times in my early entrepreneurial career where I failed on this front.  I humbly report that I was not the client for others that I so deeply treasure to be today and seek to work with as a vendor myself.

 

Customer Service Versus Sales Representatives: War of the Incentive

Customer service can often be seen by businesses as a necessary evil, a burden on the finances and something to try to provide at minimal cost.

 

 

Tips for Internet Marketing

An important Internet marketing tip everyone ought to use is just to optimize your web site for the search engines. Now what does that mean?

 

Customer Service - How Review Sites Can Make or Break a Business

Customer service is not given the attention it should be given. If there is one aspect of more importance to your business than any other, it is this.

 

Impact of Retail Display and

Store Design on Buying Decisions

A retail display is a merchandising display that showcases shop inventory or featured products. Take the right steps to make profits- don’t leave conversions to chance.

 

Brand Loyalty is One of a Company’s

Most Important Assets

Every business must create a marketing strategy that results in brand loyalty.

 

 

Three Proven Ways toAttract

Clients, Fast!

It is possible that you may have the best product on the internet. Start today with these three proven marketing methods.

 

Customer Service Management

Tips- Part 2

Now let's look at some practical customer service management tips to help you get the job done.

 

Customer Service Management

Tips- Part 1

Customer support teams play a critical role in ensuring customers are satisfied and in retaining customers.

 

How do Your Attract Customers

to Your Business?

To help you with your marketing efforts, here are effective strategies so you can target and attract customers to your business.

 

 

Marketing Tactics for Small Business

Marketing a small business is not difficult if it can identify something unique that makes it stand out from the crowd.

 

Simple Tips for Creating and

Executing Your PR Plan

You don’t have to be a PR expert to develop and run a simple public relations campaign. Here are tips to get you started.

 

How to Shine at Customer Service

Marketing is essential to the success of any business. But there is more to marketing than advertising. Much more.

Latest Business Article!

Profit from the NFL's Business Plan

If there’s one sport out there that’s synonymous with profit, it’s football. The game brings in billions in revenue through ticket sales, cable contracts and licensing fees and sales of merchandise and apparel.

 

 

How to Start an Online Business for $100

Today's economy isn't doing anyone any favors, and if you're one of the unfortunate folks to have been served a layoff notice, you might be facing a long haul when it comes to searching for another job. Is now the right moment to put your long-lingering business idea into practice? While times may be tight for many larger enterprises, in many cases smaller, more-nimble companies are better able to withstand market uncertainty and weather downturns.

How the World Cup can Influence your Small Business

Many small business owners are accommodating or even indulging employees' passion for World Cup soccer, either giving them time off to watch the games, or making it easy for them to follow the matches while they're working. And not just for the U.S. games. Owners are aware that the diversity of their staffs means many employees are interested in games from a variety of countries

New IPhone 4 Targets Small Business

Could Apple also be worried about competition? Research in Motion Ltd.’s Blackberry, whose users are mainly business professionals, started its own version of the iPhone App Store earlier this month, called the Blackberry App World. So far, Blackberry has less than 1,000 applications compared with the 31,000 available for the iPhone.

Top 20 Companies Hiring College Graduates

It’s no secret that the job market has been really tough on recent graduates. The companies in the AfterCollege network understand how crucial it is to market their opportunities to this highly talented segment of the workforce.

 

Thomas Edison - And The Light Bulb

It is well known that Thomas Edison was an inventor, a genius, and he never slept. Did you know that Mrs. Edison was a genius and never slept either? She was the marketing guru behind his engineering success.

 

How to create Long Term Business in a Freelance Position

As a freelancer you would always come back across two kinds of people. One would be the one time client, who will simply want your services for once and the others would be very long time shoppers, who would return for your services time and over again.

 

How to Write a Successful Exit Strategy

"Begin with the end in mind." Those who have created a successful business know it does not happen without planning, hard work, and a little luck. Yet most have no exit plan for leaving their business. To have a successful business, you must plan for all four D’s of a business exit strategy.

How to Write an Executive Summary

The executive summary section of a business plan is a summary of the highlights of your business plan. Even though the topic appears first in the printed document, most business plan developers leave the writing of the executive summary until the end.

 

Sam Walton's Guide to Building a Successful Business

Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, grew up poor in a farm community in rural Missouri during the Great Depression. The poverty he experienced while growing up taught him the value of money and to persevere.

 

7 Key Qualities of a Successful Entrepreneur

Successful entrepreneurs like the ambitious Richard Branson have an inner drive to succeed and grow their business, rather than having a Harvard Business degree or technical knowledge in a particular field.

 

78 Ways To Save Money for your Small Business

With the economy struggling, every business is trying to cut costs to make ends meet. Small businesses, which have fewer resources, especially feel the burn.

Small Business Tips For Success

Make sure you conduct your business more like a business and less like a lottery and you’re sure to do well.

 

Setting Realistic Goals for Your

Online Business

While the year beginning enthusiasm is important for any entrepreneur, what is more important is that you take all your ideas and set concrete goals down for your progress.

 

10 Ways to Create a World

Class Business

Whether you run a small business or a major international corporation, we know the key characteristics of what an excellent business should look like.

Handling Employee Absenteeism

To deal with the issue of employee absenteeism, it is necessary to look beyond the surface of the issue, as there is no quick fix to the problem.

Steps to Becoming a

Great Entrepreneur

Here are 5 steps you can take to learn how to become an entrepreneur that will lead you in the right direction.

Secrets to Outsourcing Your Online Business to Make More Profits

The most effective way to grow your online profits and get things moving quicker with your business is to outsource.

 

Online Press Release Management

With all of the advances in online marketing, it can often be the case that people lose sight of more traditional online marketing tools.