We’ve addressed the importance of load times for search engine optimization, most recently at “SEO: Google to Make Mobile Speed a Ranking Factor,” from fellow contributor Jill Kocher. Certainly page speed is critical, especially for mobile search visitors. But beyond SEO, page speed is important for conversion rates and overall engagement. A Think with Google […]
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Every year at this time, it’s bound to happen. People congregate around cubicles and break rooms during business hours to fill out brackets for the men’s NCAA Tournament — an annual ritual known as March Madness. Grown men and women, responsible and productive employees even, will use company time to take part in office pools,
Every week, Small Business Trends publishes a list of great business networking events. They’re everywhere and it’s likely there is one near your small business — even if it’s not on our list. So this week, we want to know when was the last time you attended one of these events? Do you go all
There are 1,440 minutes in a day. Do you have any idea how many of your minutes are spent actually contributing to your income? More importantly, do you have any idea how many of those minutes are contributing to the impact you make in the world? Many entrepreneurs believe they have to hustle around the
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Everyone has a formula for doing a business “right.” You know that when you start your business, there’s a right way to build your list, fund your ideas, post on your blog, and do any number of things. In fact, there are so many things that you’re supposed to do — and do right — that
Many businesses out there spend the last few months of the year planning their content strategy for the year ahead. They have color-coded spreadsheets completed, goals in the place, and the optimism that the next 12 months are going to be the best yet. So, let me ask you a potentially awkward question: Are you on track
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For most sales organizations, we are going into the third month of the quarter. The knee jerk reaction for many SVPs and VPs of Sales is to schedule an unprecedented amount of internal forecast calls to track movement in deals with a March 31 deadline quickly approaching. The pressure is on! I get it. A
So I was looking over my last few posts (as I’d realized I haven’t blogged in a while), and I was surprised to find that in the last three months, I’d only blogged four times. Just once a month, if you ignore the first of these four posts which was an update post, versus a
It’s tax season, and that means small business owners everywhere are starting to worry about how and when they’ll file their year-end returns. Tax season is a stressful time for everyone, but especially for small business owners, who often have more complex financials to work with than individuals — but considering there are close to
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