Big decisions in business need to be met head on. You don’t have time to dilly-dally while your competition makes the hard decisions. It’s important to ‘take things under advisement’ sure, but when it gets down to it, waiting may just mean you lack the confidence to go forward.
How do you know you’re waiting for good reason, or just fearful of change? [Read more…] about Good Decision Making – With Confidence!
Yesterday we challenged you to think about business growth differently, and shared a technique that requires you to think about your intended end result first.
Success requires goals, no two ways about it, but it’s not always about setting each individual goal, as most of us have been taught. We mean well, but choke at the first sign of distraction. [Read more…] about Backward Goal-Setting Makes it Happen
Happy Monday! Did you know that the difference between growing companies and stagnant business is often a business owner’s ability to create and focus on objectives? On our Facebook page, we’re spending more and more time talking about action steps to help you recognize what it takes to grow BIG businesses, and it really starts with clear vision. Focus.
It’s not uncommon to believe that your company is as big as it can be and all you need to focus on is keeping it alive, but we want our readers to grow large enough to hire and impact real change in America. Your business can enjoy serious growth, but you’ll have to wrap your head around it. [Read more…] about Does Lack of Focus Stop You From Success?
Every business is unique and different, and so are their social styles. Not everything you see others do will work for your company.
Social activity can’t be ignored, but most small businesses that didn’t grow up in a culture of social online behavior will agree that there isn’t a whole lot of time for chit-chatting in the unknown with whoevers. There’s a business to run.
The superficial benefits to social engagement are obvious:
But those reasons aren’t enough to keep you interesting or interested in social activity – they’re kind of flat, aren’t they?
Among the more brow-raising reasons for social engagement, the term ‘social proof’ should have you rethinking social altogether. [Read more…] about How Much is Too Much Social Activity?
Some people believe that if they have a website, they’re marketing online. Your website is invisible if you haven’t done anything with it. It’s not designed to just sit there like a neon sign on the Internet Superhighway. Even if it was, that’s not enough to get anyone to stop and to buy from you. Internet traffic is pretty different. Online, people have to trust you first.
The term ‘getting found’ is over-used and misunderstood. There are no magic keywords to make people come to your website and buy. No hocus-pocus will help your page rank. [Read more…] about Marketing With an Invisible Website is Hard
A common misconception is that having multiple domain names will increase your site’s search engine rankings. It’s not uncommon for a business to own their name as a domain, as well as several keyword-specific domain names.
While that’s not a bad idea, don’t buy extra domain names with the thought that you’ll point them to your existing site for an SEO boost. It just doesn’t work that way. [Read more…] about Before You Buy That Domain Name
