If you are interested in expending your circle of business connections, talk to like-minded people, help and be helped in solving professional problems, LinkedIn is a site which will allow you do all that for free.
Startups that could affect your Marketing Strategy
TechCrunch, a company that started as a blog in 2005 and has evolved to be one of the biggest and more innovative companies, holds a yearly conference where they choose 25 new startups from over 1000 applications to present their ideas to the conference and through it to the world.
So You Want to Start a Business Blog….
75% of the respondents said they consider blogs ‘useful’ and 31% said it is ‘critical’ to their business.
Small Businesses and their Banks
Big banks have lost the human relationships with their clients. It may be high time to leave those big ones and go with the smaller local banks,
Social Brand Visibility: Friendfeed
What’s more, Friend feed is also a real-time feed aggregator that consolidates updates from social media and social networking websites, social bookmarking websites, blogs and micro-blogging.
Google Places – a New Kind of Search
Google has launched, last September, a new service called Goggle Places, an improvement on Goggle’s Business Center.
According to Google, local search amount to 20% of all searches being done.
Networking and Schmoozing Do’s and Don’ts
A big part of networking is schmoozing – making new connections and keeping the ones you have. Unfortunately, not all of us are born natural schmoozers. For some the idea of schmoozing in a convention or a gathering is enough to send chills down their spines. What can we do to be better communicators?
Why Free is so profitable!
In the end it’s all about time and resource management, if you can show a business owner value in your service for free, then they know they will find value in the paid product and services you can offer as well.
Social Brand Visibility: Identi.ca
Twitter is close, and more popular, but identi.ca is robust, more reliable, and simply an ALTERNATIVE and a CHOICE.
How to Market Your Business like the Big Boys
The bottom line – when you are about to launch a new product, plan the launch months before the actual date.