What are the Top Priorities an Entrepreneur Needs to Succeed?

Business owners juggle many balls. Choosing a business idea. Getting the funding you need to make your dream a reality. Branding. Production. Time management. Staff. Marketing … and everything else.It can be hard to keep all those balls in the air. There are too many of them and, after a while, something’s gotta give. You’re going to start dropping some of those balls.How can you focus your energies to have the most productive impact for your your business?The...

09/06/2017By Entrepreneurship, Online BusinessRead more...

Why More U.S. Businesses Are Succeeding Now Than Ever Before

Last week we spoke about the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)’s annual report on the state of entrepreneurship the world over. In the report, GEM highlights the unusually high rate of entrepreneurship in the U.S. The United States consistently exhibits among the highest entrepreneurship rates in developed economies. At 14% of the U.S. population of working age, entrepreneurship rose in 2014 to the highest level in the 16 years GEM has assessed this activity. This level represents approximately 24 million Americans starting...

02/06/2017By Digital Coaching, Entrepreneurship, Online Business, Search Engine OptimizationRead more...

Entrepreneurs in the United States: A Dying Breed? … Or Alive and Well?

Every time we turn around, it seems like one more mom and pop store has been swallowed up by a mega corporation. Some say that this spells the beginning of the end - the death of entrepreneurship in the US.But the numbers tell a different story.

A Remarkable Recovery

2008 - 2009 spelled a dark time in the world economy. Heralding the biggest financial downturn the world has faced since the early 1920s, this period has been given the euphemistic label "The...

26/05/2017By Entrepreneurship, Online Business, , Read more...

Content Marketing Tools

The only way content marketing and online marketing REALLY work is if they are fuelled by LOTS of great content. But it's easy to run out of things to say. Especially if writing isn't actually your day job (and even then, it can be a challenge!).The beauty of the internet is that it brings with a range of FREE, useful tools that make writing about what you do so much easier. These tools save you time so that you can...

19/05/2017By Content MarketingRead more...

How to make a good website that gets traffic and converts

"Good" can be a subjective term: everyone has their own idea of what constitutes a good website, for instance, based on their tastes, preferences, needs, and personal experience. But a good website can be measured objectively in terms of delivery: does the website rank in Google searches?This is a useful benchmark, and it's what we use to define our websites as good - or in need of work.Often, what makes a website rank well in a Google search seems...

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Information Revolution

First, we had words. Language. We spoke.And we forgot.And so we made tools, and carved our words indelibly into the rock around us.We wanted to remember.But rocks are hard to carry.And so, we invented paper. And that was good enough for all of mankind for a good, llooonng time.Until one day, Johan Gutenberg decided he'd had enough of all the carpal tunel, and he gave us the printing press. This revolution changed the world in every conceiveable way, allowing us...

05/05/2017By Content Marketing, Digital Coaching, Online Business, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media, , Read more...

Content is king

Copywriting is more science than art. While talent always helps, the fact is that the basic steps for creating great content - content that gets you found - are easy to learn.Let's take a look at some of the foundations of great content:Remember that your words should never get in the way of what you're trying to communicate. As writers we're often tempted to show off our giant vocabulary and cleverness with the great words we choose.This is a bad...

28/04/2017By Content Marketing, , , Read more...

Gather your tribe – Facebook

Each digital channel has it's own set of rules. Different techniques work on the different channels. And if you know which approach works best for each one, you can tailor your efforts to make the most of the opportunities they all represent.Remember: the more content you have out there, and the more links you share back to your website, the better your chances for success.

Facebook: Your Tribe of Raving Fans

As far as Facebook is concerned, this is the place people...

11/04/2017By Social Media, , , Read more...

Who you are: the power of a great brand

First impressions count.Everyone knows that. From earliest childhood, parents, teachers, psychologists - and pretty much everyone else - repeats the message over and over.Making a good first impression can make all the difference. And it's not as hard as it may seem at first.The first secret to a great brand is a great business name. This can be tricky. Most people choose their business names for an infinite range of very personal reasons.But personal is not always professional. And choosing...

07/04/2017By Brand Identity, , , Read more...

Anatomy of an search engine optimized solution

A website that doesn't get you found is worth nothing. It doesn't matter how pretty it looks. It doesn't matter how much you spent on it. It doesn't matter what your photography cost, or how great your e-commerce portal is. If you are not optimized for effective SEO or search engine optimized shame.All of that is wasted if no one very finds you.And without a site optimized for search, no one will.

Search engine optimization seems complicated at first....

31/03/2017By Digital Coaching, Search Engine Optimization, , , , Read more...