Jul 15
Starting an online business is great fun, but if you have done it yourself, I’m sure you know that you know how quickly you start wanting to achieve even more. So what’s the next step once you have established your fledgling business?
Well one option is to take it international. It’s not an option that suits every business, but if you have a good product that you think would be well received overseas, there is no reason why you can’t take it international and grow your profits further. Here’s how.
Currencies etc
The first step is to make your web site international. That means things like prices, changing currencies and shipping amounts. It is pos
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Jul 15
We have been hearing about the baby boomers for decades and we will hear about their impact for decades to come. I remember studying them in high school and college, so I’m guessing that it was on all Generation X and Y curricula. They are still the largest group of babies born in the U.S. at one time and their decisions have and continue to affect business, retirement and your small business bottom line—if you know how to get and keep their attention.
Baby Boomers, Retirement and Education
Anita Campbell, in an article on American Express OPEN Forum titled, “When Big Companies Go Back To School, Will Small Businesses Benefit?“, broaches the idea of replacing the baby boomer in the manufacturing and engineering fields. “In manu
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Tags: Baby Boomers, Boomers
Jul 14
Im fascinated by data Steve King of Small Business Labs published a couple of weeks ago in Comparing Small Business Owners and High-Growth Entrepreneurs. This makes perfect sense to me: I would expect the general small business owners which makes me think of restaurants, car washes, hardware stores, dry cleaners, etc. to be significantly different, as a group, from high-growth entrepreneurs.
To do this we analyzed small business owner survey data from the Small Business Success Index , produced by the University of Maryland and Network Solutions. We compared this data with the results from a 2009 study of the motivations and backgrounds of high-growth entrepreneurs An Anatomy of an Entrepreneur.
If you guessed that the high-growth entrepreneurs tend to be more educated, you were right.
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Tags: Business Owners, Owners, Small Business, Small Business Owners
Jul 14
Our view: Buy
Share price: 279.3p (-2.8p)
The B&Q-owner Kingfisher enjoyed a sharp rise in profits in its first quarter, boosted by warm weather in its major markets, a later Easter and a glut of bank holidays in the UK.
However, the company, which has 860 stores in eight countries including France, Turkey and Poland, warned that it expects this year to be a “tough” one for retailers, especially in the UK, which accounts for nearly half of group profits.
For the quarter to the end of April, Kingfisher powered ahead, with retail profits higher by 19.1 per cent to 174m, on group sales up 3.3 per cent to 2.73bn.
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Tags: Buy, Makes Buy
Jul 12
If you’re looking for the future of small business marketing, look no further. Here are the top stories from the cutting edge with ideas ready for your next marketing campaign on the small business front lines. Got a tip, technique or strategy of your own you’d like to share? Leave a comment below and add to our list of marketing tips from small business leaders just like you.
Marketing Trends
The power of the simple text. Whether marketing for a “cause” or for your brand or business, don’t underestimate the power of the simple text message. With other marketing technologies exploding out there, Joe Waters observes, it remains the one kind of communications almost everyone in every demographic knows how to use. Have you con
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Tags: Cutting Edge, Marketing
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