If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Do you find that there is more work to get done than you or your staff has the hours in the day to accomplish? Small business productivity tips probably won’t eliminate that feeling. However, they can increase your productivity so that you don’t keep slipping further behind. You will still need to prioritize what you have to do with the minor gains these tips provide. (Read More …) Read More →
When I posted the following slideshow on Yahoo! Contributor Network’s Associated Content, I forgot that there really are five types of content. Ironically, the fifth type is “Slideshows.” (Read More …) Read More →
Not all blogs and websites are created equal in Google’s opinion. The same is true of Yahoo! and Bing. Google, in particular, makes a very big issue repeatedly about improving the user experience. Do your posts and your actions serve to enhance the user’s experience on the web or merely seek to improve search engine ranking? So what does Google consider content for search engine ranking? This collage combines the four types of content on one background with a title for John Aberle's blog post, “What Does Google Consider Content for Search Engine Ranking?” Before you get to that answer,... (Read More ...)
What I’ve noticed with small-business clients is that no matter how well-educated they are, they rarely understand how to do product pricing correctly. One of the things they generally miss is applying a percentage of their overhead to their quotes and product prices. Why is understanding overhead critical to business survival? Because if you fail to allocate overhead to your quotes and product prices, you will be underpricing your true cost of doing business. (Read More ...) Read More →
If you intend to succeed in business today, you need to know how to make a profit. If you already know, you can appreciate that making a profit is easy only to those who’ve never had to do it. Admittedly, there are exceptions, such as happened in the years 1995–2000. That period came to be called the dot-com bubble – after the bubble burst. Interestingly, a big reason for the crash of many technology stocks at the end of this period was companies taking advantage the euphoria involving new Internet businesses that enabled startups to go public without a profit, or, in some cases, without... (Read More ...)
For 2011 to be better, you must change something in the way you’re doing things. People quote Albert Einstein as saying that the definition of insanity is “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” This definitely applies to running a small business in the current economy if you want it to thrive. If you want to know how to make 2011 a better year, ask yourself, what you are going to do differently in the year ahead to take control of your business, what changes will you make to be more profitable and happier at the end of the year?” (Read... (Read More ...)
