Finding motivation to blog. Blogging can be very valuable when you are trying to bring additional traffic to your business. However, it’s easy to start off with good intentions to post to your blog often, but then you get too busy or simply forget. It can be a lot of work to build a popular … Read more
Whether you own a retail store, beauty salon, restaurant or other local business, gift cards can be a great way to boost sales. Gift cards aren’t just for large, national chains anymore. Consumers are very open to buying gift cards from small, independent retailers. Here are 5 tips for using gift cards to increase your … Read more
How a small business handles customer complaints and store returns defines its customer service. How you handle store returns shows whether or not that company understands that customer service is not just about making a sale, but it is also about customer relationship. Even if your customer is filing a complaint or returning a product, … Read more
If you asked your customers to rate their satisfaction with your service or product, would they give you wonderful reviews? It is important to have strategies in place to get new customers and to keep them for life. Your goal must be to develop long-term customer relationships and then hold on to them. If you … Read more
One of the best ways to get new business is for current customers to say good things about your products or services and give you referrals. Here are five tips for getting testimonials from clients who may refer new customers: Ask for feedback and testimonials that you can post on your website. You can ask … Read more
How is Your Business Coping with Covid-19? What a time we are living in! What is taking place now will be in the history books. Covid-19 is having a great impact on most businesses. How our businesses survive and change will all depend on how we change to copy with Covid-19. Some business will survive, … Read more
Marketing Tips and Ideas: When starting out marketing your business, you need to determine who your target market is. Only when you know who your customers are can you market to them effectively. Here’s an easy way to figure out who your target market is: Make a list of five of your best customers. Leave … Read more
Is it Safe to use Cloud Storage to Store Your Files? When you save a file on your computer you know the file is stored on your computer’s hard drive, most likely in a folder that you created yourself. When you use Cloud Storage to store your files, it is actually stored on a network … Read more
Here are three great marketing tips to help turn visitors to your website into buyers. When it comes to marketing a website there are lots of strategies that work and some that do not. SEO (search engine optimization) drives customers to your website. Once you get people to your website, you need effective marketing on … Read more
What is email deliverability? If you send out an email newsletter, you should be concerned about email deliverability. Have you ever sent an email to someone and they never received it? This can happen to all of us. We want to make sure our emails are getting to the people on our mailing list and … Read more