Business To Business Marketing: Attracting Business Customers Online

As a business to business marketer, many of the tactics that work in B2C marketing simply won’t cut it. Further more, the conversion event is less likely to happen there and then – especially if you’re selling services or angling towards a complex sale. This means that B2B marketers will often have to think about things differently. In this article we explore business to business marketing tactics that get results.

White Papers & Editorial

Business Ideas That You Can Start From Your Bedroom

Starting a business isn’t cheap, and that’s what many people look for ways that they can limit costs in getting started. That way, they will be able to use their earnings to finance more capital-intensive expenses and investments. That’s why a work from home business is often the best way to get off the ground. However, not all business models are suitable for the work at home entrepreneur. In this article we explore business ideas that’ll work from home, but that also have the potential to scale.

Freelancing

Business Ethics: Managing Your Relationship With Competitors

As a business, your competitors are just that: competitors. However, the way you treat your competitors may affect how your customers and the media perceive your business, your ethics, and your friendliness. For those reasons, and more, it’s important that you carefully consider how you act with your competitors. In this article we provide guidance on how you can have a good relationship with competing businesses while limiting the impact this will have on your business success. When customers see you have strong ethics in how you deal with your competitors, they will know for sure that you’ll treat them right.

Congratulate Their Success

Starting A Blogging Business That Matters

Blogging businesses haven’t been around too long. However, already there have been a few exits. One of the first internet companies on the blogging scene – Weblogs Inc – sold to AOL for around $30M. And, there have also been several other exits in and around the same price level. Some blogs and blog networks that have yet to have a liquidity event, or even raise cash to help pin-point a valuation, will likely be worth more than this number.

What entrepreneurs shouldn’t forget is that blogging is just a style of writing, and that a blog is just a type of website. Therefore, you should look at any company that monetizes editorial through advertising as a similar business. However, a blogging business has many advantages over a traditional media business or even a traditional internet media business:

Franchising: Questions You Should Ask A Franchisor

If you’re starting a business, you may have considered purchasing a franchise rather than starting a company from scratch. This is particularly common in certain sectors, and has many solid advantages over starting a business on your own. However, before you commit anything, it’s important that you ask the franchisor the right questions to get to grips with exactly what you’re going to be buying.

Business Advantages To Being Small & How To Leverage Them

As a small business, you have many disadvantages over bigger players. You have less money to play around with, perhaps less in-house skills, and you won’t have as much power when it comes to negotiation either. Although there are certainly disadvantages to being a small business, there are also benefits too. In this article we take a look at what factors may be working in your favour, and how you can leverage them as a small business owner.

Know Your Customers

7 Characteristics Of Business Models Perfect For Franchising

When rapid business growth is on the menu, you might be considering franchising as a way to sky-rocket infrastructural development and revenue acceleration. For many this is a good choice, however for others it just isn’t going to work. In this article we explore traits that make your business model suitable for franchising, and therefore allow you to put more thought into whether it’s right for your business.

Local Presence

Start An Affiliate Marketing Business In Five Easy Steps

An affiliate marketing business is easy to start from the comfort of your own home. With an affiliate marketing business, you simply encourage buyers to purchase something from retailers’ websites. And, if they follow your link, you get a percentage of the sale.  Services companies will pay you for lead generation too.  This article explores how to start a work from home affiliate marketing business in five easy steps.

Online Business Marketing Strategies That Get Results

As a business owner, you’ve likely heard there are loads of opportunities for businesses to do well through advertising on the internet. However, for many business owners, this can be a hard thing to get your head around. In the extremely competitive internet business world, it’s simply not enough to have a website. You have to know how to market it, and how to successfully turn visitors into paying customers. In this article we cover many of the most popular strategies used by internet marketers.

Start An Online Media Business Working From Home

Starting a media business doesn’t sound like something that would be easy. Most people think you’d need a sales team, editors and designers.  But, thanks to advancements in technology, you can kick-start you media business while working from home – all you’ll need is a computer and an internet connection.

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