How to make prospective clients fall in love with your business!

May 22nd, 2013 by Jim Connolly

If you want to massively improve the way you and your prospective clients feel about your business, you will find the following technique really useful.
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Failing to Document Your Processes Puts Your Business At Risk

May 14th, 2013 by Denise OBerry

Do you have anything written down in your business or is it all in your (or your employees) head?

That’s a dangerous way to run a business. And it’s exhausting too.
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Wanted – Tips on Networking Please

April 30th, 2013 by Sally Ormond

I’ve spend years writing oodles of blog posts about the skills of a copywriter, marketer and social media user and how they can be used to help boost your business success. But if there’s one aspect of running a business I don’t enjoy, it’s networking.
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5 Financial Planning Tips for Your Small Business

April 15th, 2013 by Rich Brooks

It’s that time of year again: tax season. Lately people have been asking me—me—for financial planning tips.

Me, the guy with the five-dollar latte in his hand.

So, I did what any smart entrepreneur would do: I outsourced to people smarter than me.

I asked five financial planning whizzes for their best tip, then I asked my wife, Cybele, who runs the books here at flyte and at home, to add some additional vetted resources for your researching pleasure.

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Twitter Vine – How to Use it For Business

April 10th, 2013 by Sally Ormond

What is Vine?

It’s a way of capturing and sharing short looping videos. When we say short, we mean short, in fact 6 seconds of short. Adding them to your tweets gives you a whole new dimension through which you can engage with your audience.
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Social Media Listening Is Sound Business Practice

April 3rd, 2013 by Frank Reed

How many times have you had something, whether it was in your personal or professional life, go wrong because of poor communication? If you are honest, there are likely more than you would like to admit. Having those kinds of experiences doesn’t mean there is anything wrong with you. In fact, it’s just more evidence of just how human you and the people you communicate with are. You see although we are given two ears and one mouth rarely are they used in the right proportion. The results are often something you have to clean up but could have been completely avoided had you, or the other person, slowed down just long enough to really listen.
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Social Business: Before you publish, press pause and think

March 27th, 2013 by Jim Connolly

I want you to think about the following for a moment:
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Why Boosting Audience Retention With Video Will Do Wonders For Your Business

March 20th, 2013 by Bill Hartzer

Why Audience Retention?
Retaining an audience is perhaps the most crucial act any website can do to achieve their goals and conversions. If audiences are bouncing from your site there is very little chance they’ll come back again. This is where video comes in, not just to make websites “stickier”, but to retain those visitors in both the short and long term.
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Beyond Social Scoring – The Situational Factor of Influence

March 13th, 2013 by Danny Brown

If you thought influence marketing was a hot topic at the moment for marketers and brands, it’s only just beginning to really take shape.
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Your Small Business Network Is Very Important

March 6th, 2013 by Denise OBerry

Have you let your small business network die?

That’s a huge mistake.
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