Archive | small business
09
Jun

WordPress Sites Rock

Search Engines love wordpress website. Must be the way they are structured and the way you can popularise them. What you can do with WordPress Sites:- Can be a normal site Can have a blog Can set up RSS feeds to popularise your site Can have plugin to create tags for your content. (These act [...]

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09
Jun

Small Business websites

As a small business myself I know how important it is to have a website that is targeted at your customers. How many of you small business owners know Where your traffic is coming from How they are searching for you ? (keyphrase or keyword) Who is refering the visitor Which search engine sent you [...]

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28
Oct

Small business sales down

This was the headline in a news portal today “Small businesses accentuate the negative ” Wellington small business confidence has turned on its head since February, with pessimism doubling and optimism nearly halving. The global credit crunch and the markets & banks facing tough times is trickling all the way down even to this little [...]

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24
Oct

When business is down

Reading the news has become a chore for me these days. Who wants to read the doom & gloom? It is everywhere – markets down, dollar falling, foreclosures. Yes it is hard. But for those of us who keep looking for opportunities, It is always there. We just have to use a bit of imagination [...]

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15
Oct

Plan for holiday sales

Have you planned for your holiday sales activity? It is not tool late still. If you are a small retail business, you probably make most of your profit in the last quarter. Have you got your advertising in place? Have you allocated your expense for local paper ads, brochure mail box drops, radio spots etc? [...]

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10
Oct

Things to do when business is down

As a small business it is tough to ride the current recession and market turmoil. As people lose homes and jobs consumer spending will go down. And as a small business you will feel the pinch. Some tips to ride the downturn. Postpone any expansion for the next few months. Wait and see how quick [...]

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09
Oct

Economic downturn

I am sure you have seen it on TV read in the newspaper. It is everywhere. The doom and gloom – the credit crunch the housing market collapsing etc. I am sure you know all these things are cyclical. Yes it is bad this time round due to the greed of those in Wall Street. [...]

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