Strategy
10 Steps to a New Business
Have you dreamed of owning your own business, but don’t know where to start? Have you started planning for your new business, but keep wondering if you’ve forgotten anything important? Check out the basic steps below to be sure you’re on the right track. Evaluate and Develop Your Business Concept 1. Do you feel passionate…
Read MoreYouTube Rewind 2010 – The Top 10 List in Links
Here’s the top watched YouTube video mashup from this year. There is no doubt about the power of video in social media… and it’s fun, too. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFnXm6cjGwU&w=640&h=390] Could your video go viral? Viral videos are what many business people dream of when beginning their Inbound Marketing strategy, sometimes with unrealistic expectations. Ensuring that a video…
Read MoreFirst Steps to Successful Marketing on Facebook
Today, there are more than 500 million active users, 50% of these users log in daily. Every average user has 130 friends. People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook. With those kinds of statistics Facebook is a natural for B2C businesses trying to build a loyal following: businesses like restaurants, hotels, sporting…
Read MoreScrooge Strikes e-Commerce Small Business
Is Network TV the Scrooge? This Christmas season, it seems like every network TV news personality is reporting that online sales are booming. On Cyber-Monday, Becky Worley of Good Morning America said that online sales are up significantly this year. Technically, that’s true. That is, if you are Amazon, Walmart or Best Buy. e-Commerce: Not for…
Read MoreWhere are you going? …with your Inbound Marketing efforts
Inbound Marketing refers to attracting customers to your lodging property through a variety of social media and content distribution and interacting with readers, rather than the older means of buying attention through disruptive advertising and other devices. Simply put, Inbound Marketing employs a ‘pull’ strategy, rather than the ‘push’ strategy employed by traditional marketing techniques. With the sophistication…
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