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Read MoreHow to find financing for your business
Whenever I’m at a party, entrepreneurs seem to find me. Once they find out I work for Register.com, they start telling me about their business idea. The next thing I know, they want my advice on where they can find the money they need to start their company.
Read More5 Social Media Tools for Your Business
Which social-media sites are best for your business? It depends on your company size, your industry, and your social-media goals. It also depends on what type of social networking you enjoy and will persist in doing.
Major social-media sites can be a great place to find customers due to their large user bases, but it takes [...]
7 Reasons to Add Video to Your Marketing Strategy
With everything small business owners have on their plate, it’s probably difficult to imagine finding the time to produce and post videos on your Web site. But there are some compelling reasons to do it:
It’s cheap. You can do it yourself with a cheap digital video camera or even a cellphone that has a video [...]
Read More8 Easy Ways to Track Your Online Reputation
Positive word-of-mouth is an Internet business owner’s best friend… but negative word-of-mouth can become their worst enemy practically overnight.
If you’re not keeping track of what your customers and competitors are saying about you and your product or service, you risk turning a blind eye to complaints or concerns that could put a big dent in [...]
Go Mobile for Less
Business doesn’t pause every time you leave your desk. Your customers count on you to be responsive to email around the clock, but you can’t stay chained to your desk all day.
To stay competitive you need to be plugged into email at all times, but that gets difficult and expensive. Laptops are bulky and you [...]
5 Tips for Using Twitter to Grow Your Business
Many small business owners don’t see how Twitter can help them market their business. But many major retailers have already gotten the hang of the Internet’s fastest-growing and most talked-about social media site and are using it to their advantage.
Read MoreBlogging and social media – What’s Legal
Think the Internet is a fun free-for-all where you can say whatever you want? Think again. The world of blogs and social-media sites may feel like the Wild West, but it has rules, and breaking them can hit you right in the cash register.
Read More10 Design Tips for Your Web Site
There’s nothing like a cluttered, clunky Web site to drive away prospective customers. How can you make your site an enticing place? Here are my tips for improving 10 key aspects of your Web site.
Navigation – Put some real thought into site layout, so customers can navigate it easily. Make sure all important sections are [...]
Read MoreHow to Grow Your Business in a Downturn
Patrick Sullivan and his business partner didn’t pick a great time to start their digital-music royalty tracking service – it was late 2007 when they founded New York City-based Rightsflow. But that hasn’t stopped the company from growing. At the end of 2009, Rightsflow had grown tenfold during the year and Sullivan expected revenue to quadruple in 2010.
Read MoreTips for Customer Retention
If your Web site is up and it’s helping you find customers and make sales, then you’re ready for the next step: Make sure those customers stay with you and return to buy more.
Read MoreSocial Media – A Beginner’s Guide
Social media can be boggling. There are hundreds of social-media platforms online, and it’s easy to spend dozens of hours visiting them, creating and updating profiles and leaving comments. But will that really help your business? If done right, social media can be a productive tool for keeping existing customers happy and finding new ones. Below, we outline how busy small-business owners can use social media effectively and efficiently.
Read MoreSEO Made Easy
The process of search engine optimization (SEO) isn’t terribly complicated. However, getting improved search engine rankings for your site takes time and an understanding of how search engines work. Register.com’s SEO expert, Don Deveau explains that they keys to success are increasing the content on your site and increasing the number of links into your site from other sites. In this article, Don shares specific steps you can take to improve your site’s rankings.
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