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TOMORROW — on Thursday, September 22 from 3 to 5 p.m. — BizzyWeb’s Dave Meyer will be giving a talk on “Fishing for Sales With Online Marketing” at the Startup Meetup for New Business Minnesota. We hope you can attend! As of this writing, 141 people are already registered. We’d love to see you there.
Finding customers can feel a lot like fishing: Sometimes the fish are biting and sales are coming in as fast as you can take them, and other times it seems like nothing you do is getting a nibble, much less landing your next big customer. Here’s how to use your website, social media and more to land more customers.
Social media has changed the way people interact with businesses on the web. A simple website with text from your brochure (that hasn’t been updated for months) is no longer enough. To get the best results, your site needs to be a central hub for everywhere your prospects and customers spend time online, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and more. The good news: it’s not tough to manage if you use the right tools and ask the right questions before you start.
WordPress 3.1 was rolled out Wednesday, and includes some handy improvements for users. Easier linking, a new site-wide admin bar for logged in admins and editors, and custom post formats are now available. BizzyWeb will be updating qualifying sites as soon as we’ve verified plugin and site design compatibility.
Special from the February issue of New Business Minnesota, Dave Meyer shares “how a few well-aimed rocks can put you on a level field with the big guys.” Here’s some handy tips and guidelines on how to build your brand, create a great website, ensure you can be found, participate in social media and “use the web as your slingshot” to get results.
Last month I had the honor of joining an elite panel of communicators from all over the world at the blue ribbon panel judging session for IABC’s Gold Quill awards. It was an incredible experience to decide the merits of the best-of-the-best communications programs in the world with a group of judges from 10 countries [...]
Bootstrapper » The Business Blogging Toolset: 100 Resources for Entrepreneur-Writers Great list of handy tools for business bloggers, or bloggers who are in business, or even bloggers wishing to make their business by blogging. The resources are broken into categories including Blogging Platforms (I suggest WordPress), Design and Content (including great links to WP templates, [...]
You should be able to tell where my mind has been recently. As a bootstrapper, you know that clients equal business. Without them, you’d just be another one-man (or woman) shop with an office trying not to go into debt. Fighting for and retaining clients against your competition can be a struggle, just like recruiting [...]
