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#smbiz Chat Recap Website Conversions

Following is the recap from the August 18 Web conversions #smbiz Twitter chat. @karmacom and @tcpeter were the special guest experts:
@smbiz Q1 What are some myths about what it takes to make money online for a Web site? #smbiz

@karmacom Q1Myth #1 is that u need tons of traffic, U don’t – u need qualified, targeted [...]

#smbiz Chat Working With Print Reporters

Working with a reporter or writer can be an intimidating experience for any entrepreneur or small business professional. There are a lot of misconceptions involved, and obtaining media coverage for a small business can come with many misunderstandings of the media’s role in pursuing a story. It’s important to have access to information and resources [...]

12 Tips To Be A Strong Entrepreneur

We all want the American Dream – to take a hobby or a personal interest and make money from it. all successful entrepreneurs will tell you it’s a wonderful feeling, but not without hard work. Read the following 12 tips carefully as they can go a long way towards helping you achieve ultimate entrepreneurial satisfaction.
1) [...]

Small Business Can Learn From Michael Vick

Michael Vick, the famed NFL quarterback who served a prison term for his role in dog fighting has not only been reinstated by the National Football League but also given a second chance by signing a contract with the Philadelphia Eagles (whether or not you believe Michael Vick deserves a second chance is not the [...]

Marketing Provides Novocaine For Dentists

When you went to your last dental visit did you sit in the chair and wonder what kind of marketing the doctor was doing to drive business? I bet you didn’t. And neither did many of the dentists.
A severe recession will change all that and many dentists are now stepping up their marketing efforts to [...]

10 Ways To Run A Budget-Friendly Business

There may be some signs pointing to an economic rebound but that doesn’t mean small businesses and entrepreneurs shouldn’t shop for great deals for their business or marketing needs. I’ve put together some great deals below on everything from Mac computers for less than $1000, to all kinds of printing, supplies and promotional items that [...]

Weber Shandwick essays

Here are some new essays on international PR from my colleagues at WS you may be interested in.
Weber Shandwick 33&1/3 RPM Issue 2
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Entrepreneurial Spirit In America

The Wall Street Journal’s Boss Nation ran an excellent column recently pouring over Census data and how it relates to businesses and workers here in America. I had a feeling we were heading towards an Entrepreneurial Nation but boy, we are steamrolling in that direction. The current economic free fall (well, hopefully at least the [...]

Using Twitter To Mitigate PR Crisis

A stitch in time saves nine.
Have you ever heard this saying before? Basically it means if something goes wrong, it’s better to provide a solution the first time it breaks. If you ignore the problem it will only grow bigger, and ultimately when you’re forced to provide a solution it will be a lot more [...]

Marketing To Women

As a small business owner or entrepreneur, do you take gender into consideration when developing design and/or content for any of your online or offline marketing, including the design and content of your Web site or blog? This question can also be applied to any social media marketing efforts in place within your company (you’ll [...]

The ROI of PR for Small Business

A wonderful colleague of UnderstandingMarketing.com, John Jantsch from Duct Tape Marketing, recently blogged about the Return On Investment (ROI) of social networking for small business. In his blog post, and as to be expected, he mentions that virtually every small business owner and entrepreneur asks about measuring the success of a social networking or social [...]

MacSpeech Dictate Speech Recognition Review

A show of hands: How many of you are really pressed for time these days? How many of you have lots of thoughts and ideas for a blog post, marketing materials or a press release but just don’t have time to get it done? Finally, how many of you really like cool stuff?
You’re not alone. [...]

Small Business Internships

Most small businesses are always in need of extra help for lots of tasks around the company. Entrepreneurs have a tendency to run their business with a “do it yourself” mentality, which is great for cost-cutting but also bad for productivity reasons. If you’re the head of the company, it can be difficult to “let [...]

Marketwire Review – Press Release Distribution

PR agencies, large companies and small businesses all have the need to announce news through a press release, still a great way to gain media exposure and PR. Once those releases have been written, it’s often a wise idea to distribute the press release over a newswire (which makes your news available to thousands of [...]

Making Customer Loyalty Profitable

Customer loyalty for a small business is as much about brand perception as it is about brand behavior. Your loyalty efforts can go a long way towards bringing people back into your store, but you can’t expect their return alone to bring profits. For that you need to continue driving value, service and incentive, sometimes [...]

Some thoughts on PR as it is right now

Barely a day goes by without newspaper headlines – ironically – in the UK and overseas about papers downsizing or even closing. The threat to journalists’ jobs, editorial quality and to the service papers provide to their communities is rightly front of mind.
But for those in the PR consultancy sector there is another issue to [...]