September 2010 Blog Posts (8)

Quick video from the Association or Small Business Development Center Annual Conference on what it takes for small businesses to be successful with social…

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If you have a product to sell you need traffic. It doesn't matter if you are selling online or offline. In order to make money anywhere you need to get it in front of people. Online is the best option for selling something because you can sell to the whole world. But you can't sell anything without traffic.



PPC (Pay Per Click) is actually the fastest way to get traffic. But you have to know what you're doing unless you like wasting money.



I am going to give you some tips… Continue

Approaching the venture capital community with the hopes of getting funding can be daunting. However, understanding where you are in the cycle can help prepare you for what to say – and more importantly, what

VC’s want to hear to feel confident in their investment.

Click Here for a few take-aways that entrepreneurs should focus on when engaging with VCs throughout the early…

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Whether you’ve been in business 5 days or 5 years, this program is for you. By the time you leave this event you will have a complete action plan ready for immediate application and success!

Spend the morning of October 1 with Bob Burg and you’ll learn how to quickly and easily build a prospecting and referral “Machine” to continuously create more sales than you ever dreamed possible! If you’ve ever asked

yourself the question, “Who do I talk to next, now that my…

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Back in March President Obama signed the Hire Act into law. If you hire anyone between February 3 and December 31, 2010 that is "unemployed" (there is a very loose definition you MUST know!) you may not have to pay the employer Social Security match through the rest of the year for that person AND if you keep that hire for 52 weeks you may qualify for another tax credit of up to $1,000 next year. We have been working hard to educate our small business clients and the accounting community but…

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Starting your own business can be as exciting as it is nerve-wracking.

Your road to future success starts with your first customer. Landing

your first customer will require a mix of old school face-to-face

networking and plenty of time behind the computer building your brand

online. If you're ready to make the leap to entrepreneurship check out this guide

on finding your first customer that will prepare you for that first sale and

future sales.…



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You've got a killer website that potential clients are visiting. But how do you turn those visitors into paying customers?

Whether you offer a product or service, online customers can be fickle.

According to Forrester Research of Cambridge, Mass., 88% of online

shoppers that begin a transaction don't complete it, a term known as

"shopping cart abandonment."

And consider this: Researchers say consumers searching for goods or services online will visit an…

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The following post is taken from the blog of Written Impact and written by Gina Bericchia.



This week Lori Crock and I attended several networking events around Columbus, both together and separately. Some were labeled “networking”

and other events we attended had networking built-in and natural.

Because we both love to learn, we usually… Continue