Archive for Best Business Practices – Page 2

Day 30: It’s Not Over Until It’s Over

Woohoo, day 30 of the 30 Day Ultimate Blog Challengeand I am proud to say that I missed only one posting.  So here is what I learned from 30 days of blogging.  Inspiration is everywhere.  Since I knew I would have to produce articles daily I began to really pay attention to what was trending, [...]

What is your backup plan?

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.  As long as the power stays on I am good to go, but what happens if the snow if too much and I do lose power? As an entrepreneur working from a home office, I am it.  As they say, stuff happens and having a plan [...]

How to Loose a Sales, Rant

We are in the middle of another remodel and surprisingly this one is going quite well.  Since all tasks at hand are taking not as long and coming in under budget we decided to tackle the windows now instead of later.  Which brings me to my rant. I called three companies to have them come [...]

Round-up Friday: From Social Media to Borrowering eBooks

This weeks round-up really is a mishmash of topics that I found interesting. We all know by now that social media is a great piece to our marketing puzzle and according to Hubspot ” 41% of B2B companies and 62% of B2C companies that use Facebook have acquired a customer because of it. In addition, [...]

Business Building: Understanding SEO Basics

I am by no means an SEO expert however in designing websites and running my business I make it a point to stay on top of the process as a whole.  Here are a few terms that I found helpful in my SEO understanding. Search Engine Optimization:  This is the process of increasing quality web [...]

Giving Back, Is it really for me?

I am a true believer in when you give of yourself you get it back tenfold so my recent conversation with a few colleagues shocked me a little.  They felt that you should not give away your services or even cut your rate, under no circumstances.   Hmm, so I listened with an open ear to [...]