How to Find a Small Business-Friendly Bank

by Erin McKellar

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The bank you choose for your business is an important decision. The wrong decision can mean crazy fees, big hassles accessing your money, and frustration. The right decision can mean more money in your bank account and a seamless and positive experience.

Here’s how to find a small business-friendly bank.

Step #1 Identify your needs before you go bank hunting. Do you need a credit card or lending services from your small business bank? Do you need online banking? Do you need 24/7 account access. Do you need to be able to accept wire transfers or electronic banking? Not all banks have lending authority nor do they all provide online banking. If you’re going to be borrowing money or applying for an SBA loan, make sure your bank is comfortable working with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) loan system. [click to continue…]

How to Attract Younger Customers

by Elliott Kosmicki

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It’s no secret that getting younger customers is critical. It’s important, because you could potentially have a client for life if you handle the relationship correctly.

So how do you attract them? Here are five tips to make it happen:

#1) Know where young consumers hang out

One of the obvious places they go to is social media sites. The biggest age group using the popular social networking sites is the eighteen to twenty-four bracket. YouTube, Twitter, and MySpace are all examples of social sites that offer a huge amount of profit opportunity. [click to continue…]

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Get Your Business on Google Places

Google says that one out of five searches on Google are related to location. For that reason they created Google Local which has since been transformed into Google Places. If you’re familiar with Google’s Local Business Center, then you’re also familiar with Google Places. Google changed the name of their local business center to offer [...]

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Choosing an Affiliate Product to Promote

How do you determine the best affiliate product to promote? First you want to choose your niche, which will help you decide which products to promote. Consider going with a topic that has a variety of affiliate products being offered. That way, if one of them doesn’t sell well, you can choose another one and [...]

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7 Tips to Avoid Distraction and Prevent Interruption

Oh how easy it is to be distracted when you’re working from home. True, you don’t have your coworkers talking about last night’s Dancing with the Stars or showing you photos of their children. However, you do have other distractions, like last night’s Dancing with the Stars and your very own children. How do you [...]

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Developing Resilience in Your Business

Why is resilience critical for business? It’s because every company, large or small, goes through struggles at times. It is so easy to get caught up in all the “instant success stories” about people who’ve made a million dollars overnight. When that doesn’t happen for you, it’s tempting to get frustrated and quit. Here’s a [...]

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How To Get Customers to Take Action

There’s a general cycle to internet business, a series of phases. The first phase is generally to drive traffic, increase awareness and build your subscriber or opt-in list. The second phase is to motivate subscribers to become customers. This is generally accomplished by offering entry level products like low cost reports and ebooks. However, once [...]

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2 Tips for Motivating Yourself in Business

When it comes to business, being motivated is key. Without it, your business will never become successful. Lack of incentive is one of the biggest reasons that 95% of start-up businesses fail. If you are really willing to go after something, you will stop at nothing to get it. However, most people give up long [...]

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Making Money Using Tutorials

Why are tutorials so important for making sales? Because most great marketers agree that educating your customer while also selling to them is very effective. How do you educate them? By offering free “how to” advice related to the product you are selling. Even though you aren’t giving away your most valuable information, you are [...]

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Chaos: Getting Productivity Back in Your Business

A lot of businesses fail for the simple reason that they have no clear direction. If you go to work and don’t have a plan for what you want to achieve, chaos is inevitable. This is how you end up simply answering hundreds emails or phone calls during an eight hour day, and not getting [...]

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