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Small Business Branding Advice For Entrepreneurs

Branding is ultra important for any small business owner, entrepreneur or even a solopreneur. Some even consider small business branding as the soul of your company since it offers the emotional attachment between a customer and company.

Tweet N’ Greet

We will be doing an online Tweet N’ Greet for #smbiz chat. Instead of having experts answer questions and discuss small business issues, this week we are going to be doing some real social networking.
Wouldn’t it be great to do business networking online. [...]

Advice On Mobile Marketing For Small Business

Have you ever thought about doing mobile marketing for your small business, or are you an entrepreneur already doing some form of mobile marketing? Be sure to check out the #smbiz Twitter chat for small business on Tuesday, Feb. 2 from 8-9 pm ET, where we’ll discuss mobile marketing for small business and entrepreneurs.
We’ll have [...]

Advice On Running A Franchise As A Small Business

Is your small business a franchise, or are you interested in running a franchise? If so then you don’t want to miss the #smbiz Twitter chat on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010, from 8-9 pm ET. Join the first #smbiz chat of the new year for a special session focused on running a franchise. Joel Libava, [...]

Small Business Branding Tips For Solopreneurs

As we enter 2010 many solopreneurs are facing an incredible amount of opportunity to grow personal businesses they’ve started or are about to start. Like entrepreneurs and even small business owners, solopreneurs are businesses that were started by people looking to be their own boss. The only difference is that solopreneurs are one-person shops, sometimes [...]

Small Business Tips On Motivating Employees

One headache constantly facing small business owners is the ability to motivate employees and get the most out of them. Often times many entrepreneurs feel the need to have a degree in psychology in knowing which buttons to push in order to balance the fine line between being a cheerleader and pushing the envelope – [...]

Dozens Of Work At Home Tips For Entrepreneurs

Following is a chat recap of the #smbiz small business Twitter chat on the topic of working from home. If you work at home or if you’re thinking of working from home, make sure you read this to get some great advice.
@smbiz Q1 If ur going to work from home, what are things to take [...]

Online Marketing Tips For Small Business During Holidays

Holiday shopping is in full swing as we inch closer to the seasonal holidays of late December. If you’re a small business owner or an entrepreneur with a Web site, how are your online marketing strategies doing so far? Or are you still confused about what to do and feeling the pressure since you’ve already [...]

How To Find Success Working From Home

Are you thinking of working from home or are you already working from home as your own small business? If you fall into this category then you’ll want to log in to the #smbiz Twitter chat with Michele Mattias and John Reddish as our special guests. They’ll be offering tips and answering questions for people [...]

Email Subject Lines That Avoid Spam Filter

Following is the recap for the #smbiz Twitter chat on email subject lines and how to avoid the spam filter. Special guest was Tamela Rich (@tamelarich).
@smbiz Tonight’s #smbiz special guest expert is @tamelarich. She will give great tips to help emails and subject lines stay out of spam box
smbiz @Tamelarich is a business ghostwriter of [...]

Tips For Making Cold Calls

Here is a chat recap from the #smbiz Twitter chat on how to make a successful cold call, an important tool for all small businesses.
@smbiz Tonight’s #smbiz cold calling expert guests please welcome @jillkonrath @jim_klein @alenmajer
@smbiz Each of tonight’s #smbiz guests have written blogs and books on cold calling. We’ll let them talk about their [...]

How To Start A Small Business Loyalty Program

Does your small business have a loyalty program or a rewards program? In short, these types of programs “reward” customers for being “loyal” to you by coming back and shopping repeatedly. As a company, you’re committed to keeping them happy and providing an incentive for them to come back and shop again and again.
In it’s [...]

Facebook For Business #smbiz Chat

Are you using Facebook for your business? Are you having success getting customers and keeping existing ones because of the popular social media site? It’s easy (or at least easier) to see how a small business or entrepreneur could benefit from using LinkedIn or even Twitter. But many feel Facebook is more difficult in a [...]

#smbiz Women Small Business Month

October is National Women in Small Business Month, and #smbiz is excited to be a part of the month-long celebration. From 8-9 pm ET on Tuesday, October 13, join the #smbiz chat crowd on Twitter, along with a host of leading women entrepreneurs and business owners as we talk about all the wonderful things female [...]

How To Get SEO Help From Misspelled Words

Everyone is bad at spelling at some point, especially when we’re in a hurry. Look at it this way, how many times have you gone to Google, typed something in, and then realized that you didn’t spell your keyword correctly? If you’re a perfect speller on the computer every single time, go ahead right now [...]

#smbiz Chat Recap – Personal Branding On Social Media

Here is the recap from the #smbiz Twitter chat on spreading your personal brand across social media networks. Special guest for this chat was Neal Schaffer (@nealschaffer):
@smbiz Tonight’s #smbiz is w special guest @nealschaffer discuss spreading ur personal brand across social media networks
@smbiz Welcome back to #smbiz @nealschaffer ! Can’t wait to have a great [...]

#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 Recap – Website Traffic

Following is the #smbiz Twitter chat recap on the topic of driving more traffic to your small business Web site. Special guests for the chat were @jkjaffe and @30lines.
@smbiz Q1 What are some myths about what it takes to get good traffic to your small business Web site? #smbiz
@jkjaffe Q1 that you can do it [...]

#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 [...]