SEO: Strategic Primer for a No.1 Rated Blog
For a popular blog, you must understand the process — important basics in search engine optimization (SEO). If you’ve been blogging for awhile, you know success doesn’t keep come automatically. SEO is arduous work. You must have a strategic blogging goal. Is it to promote your business or e-commerce? A consultancy? Is it an [...]
[Read more...]Insights for Restaurant Owners: Keeping Good Employees, Profits
If you, as a restaurant owner, have trouble keeping talented employees, consider insights from a report on a Sacramento, California TV station. It will also help you stay in business. The headline, “Servers Say Groupon Leads to Smaller Tips,” on Jan. 25, 2012 is enlightening. The KXTL-TV report cites numerous comments on YCombinator. It seems [...]
[Read more...]Will State Lawmakers Heed New SBA Data, Small Business Concerns?
Jan. 26, 2012 There’s more evidence that small business plays a pivotal role in creating jobs in Washington and other states, according to the Office of Advocacy in the Small Business Administration (SBA). The Office of Advocacy released small business data for each of the 50 states. SBA believes the new data is “an [...]
[Read more...]CES: Best Business Strategies to Get Tech Funding
Jan. 24, 2012 If you have a tech startup looking for funds, you already know the competition is intense. But there are strategies that will help you to get funded. Investors revealed their preferences for funding technology firms at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. On her blog, the chair of [...]
[Read more...]RIM Provides 9 Lessons in Best Turnaround Strategies
Jan. 23, 2012 RIM, Research in Motion, needs more than just advertising and marketing strategies. Companies – from big to small – can learn business turnaround lessons from RIM’s predicament. RIM has failed to respond to marketplace changes. Despite installing a new CEO, Thorsten Heins, and hiring a vaunted crisis management firm, Sitrick and [...]
[Read more...]9 Dos and Don’ts for Best Decision-making
Here are nine tips – dos and don’ts for best decision-making. They’re applicable whether you have difficulty making the best decisions, engage in self doubt after making one, or are gun shy because some of your decisions have failed you. To err is human. Businesspeople have been known to make unproductive decisions even after [...]
[Read more...]Nervous About Your New Boss? Here’s How to Deal with It
Whether you just got a new job or whether your company just assigned a new boss for you, it might seem hard to deal with it. But deal with it you must. Learn to develop poise and to manage your boss. First, recognize two things: 1. Fear is common. 2. Throughout your career and personal life, [...]
[Read more...]Instead of Solving Budget Crisis, Wash. Politicians Threaten Integrity of Election Day
Updated Jan. 16, 2012 Washington state has a $1.5 billion deficit, and ample justification for implementing government and budgeting reforms. But nearly two dozen lawmakers have something more important to do. They’re gaming the voter registration system in a disingenuous effort to win elections. That’s right. They’re not addressing the concerns of most businesspeople [...]
[Read more...]Understanding the Marriage of Technology and Human Behavior
Jan. 12, 2012 Whether you’re selling products, services or both – your marketing/sales future depends on whether you’re up-to-date on technology. That’s because it’s so intertwined with human behavior. An interesting article in Ad Age is a timely reminder. It’s entitled, “CMOs Explain Why They’re Flocking to Vegas for CES.” The article explains why [...]
[Read more...]Washington: A Balanced Budget Is No Longer Enough
Updated Jan. 11, 2012 A Seattle Times headline is perplexing. True, the headline –“Lawmakers open session, try to close $1B gap” – is a fairly accurate assessment of Washington state’s budget. Not to be laboriously repetitive, but the headline is worrisome. Once again the Legislature faces a budget crisis. “The economy is the focal [...]
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