Writing a business plan is a vital first step to starting a small business. Your business plan will become, and remain, your roadmap to success for as long as you own the business.
Now that you’ve created a website, how can you continue building your professional online identity? Take the next step by setting up a business email address that matches your domain name, such as [email protected]. You’ll look more polished and credible – instantly – while sowing the seeds to grow brand awareness. And since Weebly offers email for your domain from Google Apps for Work, getting a business address couldn’t be easier or faster.
Your blog can serve many purposes. It’s a way to engage and inform returning and potential customers, or a great tool for promoting deals and company changes. If your first step for your marketing plan is to create a website, your second step should be to start a blog.
Whether you’re a large business or a sole proprietor, creating a website for your company is a vital advertising tool. You can build brand awareness or sell products and services directly with a great website. Your website also serves as an important resource for customers to find information about your business.
According to author Joe McCormack, we're all drowning. Awash in a sea of information and flooded by constant interruptions, the average consumer doesn't have the time or patience to try and wade through complex or confusing messages. And that's a big problem if you're a small business owner.
Podcasts are growing in popularity. According to the Pew Research Center, 17 percent of Americans listened to a podcast in January 2015, up from 9 percent at the same point in 2008. More than one-third have listened to at least one podcast in their lifetime. If you're building a digital business, podcasting can help you find and keep an audience.
So you’ve built your own website, perhaps your own online store, and your confidence is sky high, you’re feeling like a creative genius! Learning new technology, the art of dragging and dropping and the courageous step of pushing publish on your site takes time, patience and the ability to often times master a new skill. If you’ve made it across that finish line, congrats!
As a small business owner, Google’s algorithm updates over the last few years work in your favor. Google wants to make search more personalized, conversational, and most importantly, more local-focused. Both Google Maps listings and local directories have started moving up in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) for regional-based queries.
If you've started your own business, you've probably been there: wide awake at 3am, wondering if this is the best decision of your life or the worst. Have you prepared enough? Is your idea any good? Should you have stayed at your last job like a normal person?
Small business owners are constantly struggling to improve their website in order to grow their business. They are always trying new and complex ways to provide a better user-experience for their visitors, but often overlook a basic need that makes a tremendous difference: languages. This is understandable, since creating a proper multilingual website used to be quite expensive and time consuming, making it a challenge for small business owners.
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