May 18, 2012

Online Marketing Strategies for Holiday Growth

As the holiday season fast approaches, now is the time to ramp up on all holiday promotions and work towards ensuring that all strategies result in a successful holiday season. MarketLive in its report Poised for Holiday Success offers three customer centric strategies to ensure a successful holiday season and achieve continued growth.

Spanx: Success in Innovating Existing Products

Many successful businesses made it, not by creating a unique product that never existed before. Spanx succeeded by reworking the panty hose to fit the needs of women.

Don’t Waste a Challenging Economy

When times are tough, the phones aren’t ringing and the low-hanging fruit has already been plucked. That leads many to pull back and reduce their work intensity for fear that their efforts would end up being applied in vain. That’s the wrong response to a challenging market. In times like these, smart professionals develop new products, become more innovative, embrace creativity and market themselves harder than ever

Using Virtual IT Support for Your Small Business

One business resource that is both inevitable and important is the IT support. Irrespective of the nature of your business, IT support enables the right processes for smooth functioning of your business.

Is Your Small Business Reaching Its “Tipping Point”?

Tipping point marks the sudden explosion of your business. It’s the threshold of prosperity and growth and flags the coming of greater exponential business growth for you. Here are the key indicators of this business blaster and ways to make the most of it.

12 Steps to Social Media Success

Social media has emerged as an important way to connect and communicate with your customers, industry peers and other stakeholders. Here are 12 steps to social media success.

Due Maternity: Using Social Tools to Generate Qualified Traffic

For most women, pregnancy is an exciting, momentous and joyous occasion. Many feel that it is a discovery meant to be shared with families and friends, while at the same time curious and apprehensive about pregnancy.Knowing the typical behaviors of pregnant women, Due Maternity created a microsite in November 2008 called LookWhosPreggo.com.

What Inspires Successful Entrepreneurs?

What inspires successful entrepreneurs? What words of wisdom guide their actions and thinking? Paul Thornton in his new book “Leadership – Off the Wall” looks at the quotes leaders and successful entrepreneurs post on their office walls and keep on their desks.