Simply being on social media and earning lots of followers isn’t enough to drive people to your eCommerce business. According to research conducted by Compass, the average conversion rates from social media to purchases are quite meager – to be precise, stores that have a presence with 5,000 or more followers have, on average, the […]
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Creating great experiences for customers should be a top goal for every business. If you can offer an amazing experience, you can create repeat customers, increase sales and more effectively market your business in a number of different ways. Here are some tips from members of the online small business community for creating great customer
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Small Business Trends recently spoke with three business owners who grew up in military households to find out the most important lessons they learned to have help them during their business journeys. Lessons on Teamwork From the Military Build Strong Teams Your small business is only as good as the team you have surrounding you.
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While everyone wants to venture into an entrepreneurial career, only a brave brand endure the growing pains and get to reap its much-praised benefits. In fact, that’s the one thing a multi-billion corporation and a small retail shop have in common— the challenge that comes with expanding a business. Keeping up with the ever-changing demands
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Each year, CMI founder Joe Pulizzi covers the essential roles you need on your content marketing team. It’s one of those posts that is consistently well received because it hits a nerve: Whom do you need on your team to make content marketing work in your organization? I had the pleasure of thinking through this
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Your company is growing fast, you know you should be developing your future leaders but you don’t have a $5 million development budget to send your star employees on that fancy leadership course. Leadership development experts Morgan McCall and David Day found that 70 percent of development comes from challenging experiences like turning around a business,
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The Internet has only been around for about 30 years, and in this short period of time, it has completely changed countless industries and created many opportunities to make money. Every day, billions of dollars exchange hands over the Internet, and if you know how, you can get a piece of the action. There are
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Social media has undoubtedly changed the way a lot of small businesses communicate with customers. And those social media channels are constantly changing with new features. So if you’re looking for new ways to utilize social media and other business tools and methods, check out these tips from members of the online small business community.
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There’s a tale of two small businesses. They’re the same type of business with one big difference. One is growing and another is stagnant and making more work for itself than it’s worth. The reason for that big difference: automation. That’s the gist of the new Small and Medium Business Trends Report from Salesforce. Salesforce
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Thinking of opening a small business in a new city? Maybe you want to expand your business to a new, rapidly growing city. US Cities With the Fastest Economic Growth, and the Slowest Well, Frisco in Texas is the city with the fastest local economic growth in the U.S., according to an in-depth study of
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