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All Four Seasons
Running a seasonal business presents a particular set of challenges-and opportunities

By Max Berry

Running a seasonal business may seem like an entrepreneur's dream: Work hard for part of the year and earn enough for the whole of it. But running a seasonal business, just like any other kind, is a yearlong endeavor-one that requires meticulous time management and an extra degree of financial savvy. Here are ten ways to get the most out of your sea...

By Max Berry

A faltering economy may not seem like the ideal environment for attracting new customers. But, even when consumer confidence is low, there is plenty a small business owner can do to instill faith in his existing customers and court the attention of those looking for a business to believe in. The secret, as always, comes down to the golden rule: Be good to them and they'll be good to you.

Back To Basics
"If it's not essential to yo...

Broadening your network of business contacts and seeking out additional referral partners is an excellent way to let your friends build your business for you. Just make sure you return the favor

By Max Berry

You can never have too many people in your corner. That goes double for a small business owner. Without the resources for a massive advertising campaign, an entrepreneur needs to rely on a little help from his friends to spread the w...

by ZekeLL

Video marketing is a fairly new term. It means producing videos and posting them to several video sharing websites to boost your website traffic and get your name out there.

5 Reasons Why Video Marketing Is Great

1. Google is showing more and more videos in the search results.
2. Producing a video is very inexpensive and posting it is free.
3. Most video sharing services such as YouTube have several tools to help peop...
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The meaning of the adjective radical is "not bound by traditional ways or beliefs." Here are the "must dos" of a seasoned business unit's radical salesperson and marketer.

By Profit_Repair

No stone goes unturned in your search for new leads and clients; no sales idea is too silly or stupid to try; you sell to everyone, every day, no matter what their size; you sell more than you market; you utilize yield management techniques; you just do not leave collate...

Using promotional emails and newsletters to market your small business

By Chris Freeburn

Few technologies have yielded as much benefit to small business owners as the Internet. Beyond the obvious benefits of e-commerce and professionally designed websites that can make a small business look like a big player in its industry, the Internet permits small businesses an unprecedented opportunity to use email to sidestep expensive marketing campaigns and stay in touch...

How to hold on to your customers and their critical revenue

By Chris Freeburn

Attracting customers is one of the hardest tasks a small business owner faces. Keeping them can be just as tough. Unlike large businesses, which can sometimes sustain a high turnover in customers, small business owners often don't have the luxury of large marketing and sales budgets to continue to acquire new customers. "Businesses succeed or fail based on their ability to bring peopl...

The customer is always right, right? Wrong.
By Reed Richardson

Ordinarily, a statement like this might seem like heresy in the business world, considering all the time and effort spent pursuing and landing customers in the first place. But to Larry Selden, business professor emeritus at Columbia University, this is exactly the kind of radical approach more businesses should be adopting.

"This doesn't fit the way most managers run and measure-and thus think...