I reviewed Joel's ebook on selecting a franchise. It offers many great ideas and tips to make the research and decision-making process smarter and safer.
Are you a rule follower or a rule maker? This is one of the questions Joel Libava, known as The Franchise King, and author of How to Carefully Select a Franchise
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How to Carefully Select a Franchise To Buy: A Review
Posted by q4sales under FranchisesFrom http://smallbiztrends.com 5013 days ago
Marketing Lessons from LeBron James Free Agency - MarketingProfessor.com
Posted by q4sales under MarketingFrom http://www.marketingprofessor.com 5014 days ago
I really like Travis' post here. One of the lessons I most appreciated was "Make Your Teammates Better." I view that as a pay-it-forward philosophy and one that I know the MarketingProfessor.com site lives by, too.
From the Post: Lessons are all around us, but sports marketing is particularly intriguing. With LeBron James' free agency, there are some marketing lessons. What say you Read More
From the Post: Lessons are all around us, but sports marketing is particularly intriguing. With LeBron James' free agency, there are some marketing lessons. What say you Read More
195 Social Media Measurement Tools & Technologies
Posted by q4sales under Online MarketingFrom http://bit.ly 5033 days ago
Made Hot by: BusinessBloggerPro on June 23, 2010 4:15 pm
What is this list? 195 (and growing) Tools and Solutions to help you measure and analyze your Social Media efforts.
Special thanks to Infusionsoft (Email Marketing 2.0 experts) for generously supporting our work to help other small and midsize businesses.
I normally don't post my own links, but this list has gotten so much attention I couldn't help sharing it. Read More
Special thanks to Infusionsoft (Email Marketing 2.0 experts) for generously supporting our work to help other small and midsize businesses.
I normally don't post my own links, but this list has gotten so much attention I couldn't help sharing it. Read More
National Small Business Person of the Year 2010 Announced
Posted by q4sales under Success StoriesFrom http://smallbiztrends.com 5055 days ago
Made Hot by: moopeem on May 27, 2010 5:30 am
Very inspiring examples for small biz owners to study. Cool.
The official agenda at National Small Business Week is now over. And the winners are ... Waymon Armstrong, of Engineering & Computer Simulations Inc. Read More
The official agenda at National Small Business Week is now over. And the winners are ... Waymon Armstrong, of Engineering & Computer Simulations Inc. Read More
The Accountant’s Office: You Can Outsource Just About Anything
Posted by q4sales under Success StoriesFrom http://smallbiztrends.com 5055 days ago
At the National Small Business Week festivities, I met Carolyn Brown, owner of The Accountant's Office. She was one of the SBA award winners -- named th
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11 Lessons I Learned Raising Venture Capital
Posted by q4sales under Raising CapitalFrom http://www.seniorhomes.com 5060 days ago
Made Hot by: MMarquit on May 27, 2010 4:49 pm
11 Lessons I Learned Raising Venture Capital
We recently just completed raising venture capital, (a Series A financing), in which we raised $1.1M. The round was led by MentorTech ventures, with participation from Amicus Capital and prominent Bay Area and Seattle angels. We started fundraising in earnest in August of 2009, so from start to finish it took us 8 months. Raising money was a lot harder and took a lot longer than we expected, but obviously with determination and a bit of luck it can be done Read More
We recently just completed raising venture capital, (a Series A financing), in which we raised $1.1M. The round was led by MentorTech ventures, with participation from Amicus Capital and prominent Bay Area and Seattle angels. We started fundraising in earnest in August of 2009, so from start to finish it took us 8 months. Raising money was a lot harder and took a lot longer than we expected, but obviously with determination and a bit of luck it can be done Read More
Essential Start Your Business Books from Tim Berry at Entrepreneur.com
Posted by q4sales under StartupsFrom http://upandrunning.entrepreneur.com 5060 days ago
Books: falling out of fashion, perhaps, but – business books, for sure – still so amazingly practical. What’s an hour of your time worth? How much time can a business book save? I posted here last week, in this context, about John Jantsch’s new book on referral marketing.
And today it’s Melinda Emerson’s Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months. I love the book, I’ve got mixed feelings about its title, and I particularly like its real-world common sense Read More
And today it’s Melinda Emerson’s Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months. I love the book, I’ve got mixed feelings about its title, and I particularly like its real-world common sense Read More
6 Ways To Use Video As A Small Business Owner
Posted by q4sales under Online MarketingFrom http://smallbiztrends.com 5060 days ago
Here’s a stat for you: YouTube is the second largest search engine on the Web with more than 2 billion views a day. That’s right, two billion. And contrary to popular belief, it’s not all just silly cat videos and adolescents injuring themselves. Your customers turn to YouTube’s search bar every day to look for how-to’s, product reviews, and other information about the companies and brands that interest them. And even when they don’t turn to YouTube, Google is using Universal Search elements to put the videos in traditional search. Video is everywhere and it’s what people want.
As a small business owner, you want to find ways to take advantage of that. And there are plenty of them. Here are six ways small business owners can use video to attract customers, increase their rankings, and differentiate their brand from all the others competing for the same eyes Read More
As a small business owner, you want to find ways to take advantage of that. And there are plenty of them. Here are six ways small business owners can use video to attract customers, increase their rankings, and differentiate their brand from all the others competing for the same eyes Read More
20 Reasons People Unfollow You On Twitter
Posted by q4sales under Online MarketingFrom http://smallbiztrends.com 5067 days ago
Lisa Barone gives 20 great reasons, but the comments in this post are terrific, too. Read through what other small biz owners say in reply. Good stuff.
From post: I tightened up my Twitter follow list yesterday. I like to do that every month to filter out the voices I’ve stopped listening to and to hopefully add in som Read More
From post: I tightened up my Twitter follow list yesterday. I like to do that every month to filter out the voices I’ve stopped listening to and to hopefully add in som Read More
High-Growth “Gazelle” Companies Account for 10 Percent of New Jobs
Posted by q4sales under ManagementFrom http://smallbiztrends.com 5070 days ago
A study from The Kauffman Foundation found that in any given year, the top-performing 1 percent of companies account for some 40 percent of jobs. Surprised? Learn why
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