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New Series: Different Ways To Grow Business

With the New Year starting today, I decided to start a new month-long series to help business owners find different ways to grow their businesses. During this month, I will share different tips that will help you to not only grow your business but also manage its growth.

Some of the topics that I plan on covering this month are:

Cross marketing
Social media
Business management
Virtual support teams
Blogging

As I share these tips, I want to encourage you to respond with a comment about how they have helped you with your business or share additional information of how you currently are using the chosen topic. I’m looking forward to hearing of great things for everyone.

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Business Smarts: Can Going Green Be Profitable

As business look for ways to “Go Green”, many may wonder if it is profitable. To help a business stay profitable, the business owner must find ways of sustainability in their business. This can be done by assessing business processes, tools and equipment to see if you can find ways to “Go Green”.

Areas that can be affect when you are going green in your business are….

Utilities such as electricity usuage when turning off equipment that’s not in use
“Green” equipment such as printers that use ink in a more economical way
Recycling products that you have used and buying recycled products
If you work outside the home, try to incorporate ways were you can work from home 1 – 2 time per week

Although these may seem like small steps that you can take, the all make a difference. I would love to hear of ways that you… Continue reading →

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Preparing for Summer Business Fun

Now that winter has passed us by and Spring just said goodbye, Summertime is upon us an I want to know what type of fun are you planning for you business. What I mean by this is how do you plan to liven up your business and draw in new consumers to purchase your services or products.

butterfly2 My business Summer fun will incorporate the following:

Going Green with tools and equipment that I use
Researching to find outsourcing contractors to help support the growth of my business
Revamping business processes to streamline them

This is just a short list of regarding the things that I plan on doing. I’m so excited about having fun in the sun with my business. What are some of the things that you plan on doing to revamp your business? Please feel free to share.

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Blellow.com – a New Business Tool

Recently, I’ve been sharing about a new business tool on Twitter called Blellow.com which is a business social media website where you can connect, collaborate and communicate with other business people. Listen as the CEO, Mandi Leman shares about Blellow and how it can be very beneficial for business people.

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Make Your “Big Idea” into a Business

Do you have a “Big Idea” business plan that you want to use to start a business? In 2009, have you decided that you want to start your own business? Then just take your idea and do it. Don’t wait any longer1

The way the economy is changing, you never know when a “Corporate America” job could end. So take you fear and get past it. Take your “Big Idea” and go with it. Below is a simple list of things to keep in mind when you are creating you “Big Idea” together.

Determine the need for a prototype
Own the process of developing the prototype
Show prototype
Build prototype
Sale prototype

Check out this video.

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Is Bartering for You?

With the major economic changes happening, which are causing businesses to stretch their money, have you considered bartering as a way to do business? Personally, I have been burnt many time when bartering with others and have decided that I would come up with a checklist to determine if I should consider bartering services with another business owner. See the list below:

Does the service being offered to you in the barter have the same value as your service?
Is the other business owner willing to sign a barter agreement?
Does the other business owner have references?
Will the barter help you bring in new customers?

These are a few questions that you should consider when deciding whether bartering is for you or not. The video below goes into more detail. Please watch it and provide your feedback about barter.

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Are you changing with Time?

While watching the Today Show, I listened to a segment about how time change in the US may have an affect on the rate of heart-attacks. Studies have been done that seem to show that when time changes, that sleep patterns are affected. Which in turn my affect your heart. Wow!

As a business owner, I work many hours and sometimes I don’t get enough sleep. After watching the video below, I decided I would try out the theory that more sleep helps you feel better. So I’m changing my sleep pattern with the time change to see how my days are affected.

Watch the video below and let me know what you think. Do you think you should change your sleep pattern when time changes?

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Is your business unique? Ways to standout!

Have you asked yourself, “Is my business unique?” lately? If you can’t readily say yes then maybe it’s time for you to review your business and make it standout and be unique.

What are some ways that you can make it standout? Glad you asked. Below is a short list of ways that you can make it standout:

Develop a niche market where you can create a competitive edge
Personalize your services so that you offer uniqueness
Make your services easy to buy and add freebies to sweeten the deal
Identify how you will solve the problems that your idea client may have

What are some ways that you use to standout? Watch the video below to see how MSNBC Business Answers shares how “Differentiating Your Product” can be done.

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Twitter Goes Mainstream – Article in WSJ.com

I was alerted this morning to the fact that Twitter was featured in an article by http://WallStreetJournal.com by Twitter @BloggersBlog. It’s great to see that many more media sources are finally realizing the power of Twitter.

Find out more: Twitter Goes Mainstream – WSJ.com.

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Using Virtual Assistants (VA) to Grow Your Business

As a business owner and entrepreneur, I realized that I couldn’t grow my business successfully if I didn’t have a solid support team. So I purposefully sought out Virtual Assistants (VAs) that I felt would not only be beneficial to my business but I would also be able to help them grow their business.

Recently, I was featured in an editorial column on Entrepreneur.com by Patti Simone regarding “Virtual Help for Real Entrepreneurs” about this very topic. The purpose of this article was to share how entrepreneurs were using VAs to grow their business.

If you are an entrepreneur and have yet to start working with a VA then I would highly suggest that you hire one. For more details about hiring a VA, please check out my post on this website entitled, “Business Makeover: Hiring a Virtual Assistant (VA)“.

I would love to hear about… Continue reading →

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