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5 Small Business Mistakes to Avoid
Friday, June 24th, 2011
We all know that mistakes are used to occur in running small business and in other works, its something we can’t predict that it will never happen. But, it can be avoided by being alerted in the way we perform our works, how serious we want to improve about it, learn from the previous mistakes and avoid to repeat.
While running small business there are certain things in which mistakes tend to occur, like building an asset for your business, dealing with your customers, sometimes out of touch with your business operations, etc. To avoid such situations, you can go through 5 identified mistakes with tips below which will give you an immense understanding and a clear idea to handle your small business prosperously.
No clarity with business definition
It is always better to have a clarity in what your aims as a business administrator and purposes of your business are. You can start with making a list of what you exactly want and expect, studying the interaction with your monthly visitors, tracking your sales to making partnerships, checking the comments given upon your business by your visitors and surveying on which route to make your new sales channels robust. Doing all these will help you in getting the clarity of your business definition.
Improper definition of target market
Sometimes, you get products in excess numbers that it often turned out to be lost for your business due to the idea that you want to sell so much to your customers. This is a wrong step and can be avoided once you learn the strategies of how much your target in marketing for certain periods are required. According to that, you can start putting your sales effort. Further, joining an online group or building a partnership that are related to your targeted marketing will boost your business profits.
No value in your products or service
Customers always feel happy and build trust if the products they bought proved to be of value and worth buying. So, it is wise to provide products or services like your pricing, your packaging and delivery that have a good quality. It will not only give them satisfaction but also build a good image of your business.
Poor in making commitment
Lack of commitment is one of the criteria that caused you lost your customers and partners and making your business fail. It is highly recommendable to keep the words you promised to your customers and partners and deliver it on time. Though, sometimes it proves to be in vain, it is always better to remain consistent with your efforts and never lose hope because the services you provided with hard work and commitment will not go unnoticed. There will be a reward in the end.
Absence of legal approach
Not using a lawyer in your business matters regarding about making a deal with your customers or partners will make your business look unprofessional. Since, every business sale requires contract, prior information of legal involvement should be highlighted to avoid the misuse of your business functions and other facilities. This will enhance the professional way of work, regulation and business transactions in fair manner.
By learning these 5 mistakes and remaining cognizant with the entire functions of your business, you will be able to control and run your small business smoothly. Therefore, learning from your mistakes and being alerted for not repeating are the best steps to climb up the success ladder with strong foundation.
Author Bio : This post is shared by Rachit Arora. He works as an E-Marketing Executive for Invoicera, an Online invoicing and time tracking software.
Gravatar Profiles Go Public, Privacy Concerns Arise
Sunday, June 6th, 2010
The Blogosphere just became much more of a personal place with the announcement of public profiles for everyone on the Gravatar Blog.
With the change, many of the avatars (small images that represent the authors) on blogs and websites will link to a public profile, complete with a biography, contact details and personal links.
The Gravatar service acts as a “centralized identity point.” Rather than uploading avatars and filling in biographies on multiple websites, individuals only need to fill out information in one location (Gravatar.com) and websites will have access to that information. (more…)
InfoLinks In-text Advertising Network Comes to Google Blogger
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Article first published as New In-text Advertising Network Comes to Google Blogger on Technorati.
With in-text advertisements, bloggers can hyperlink keywords as advertisements and earn PPC (pay per click) dollars every time a hyperlink is clicked. Services like InfoLinks, Kontera and Vibrant provide the ad network and tools to install the advertisements on a blog.
InfoLinks recently released a new widget, which will allow Google Blogger blogs to earn revenue with in-text ads through the InfoLinks network. Similar widget and plugins have been released for sites that run on Joomla and WordPress platforms.
Before you go and implement in-text contextual advertising on your blog, consider some of the ups and downs.
The advent of in-text advertising is comparable to the advent of in-show and in-movie advertising in television and movies. Differing from traditional forms of advertising like commercials, product placements within the media itself can sometimes give consumers powerful subliminal inclinations to buy a product or service.
Top 7 New Features in WordPress 3.0
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
The heavily anticipated WordPress 3.0 launch is just around the corner with the WP development team releasing the second beta on May 6th. I’ve personally taken the beta for a spin and have found most of the updates minor but notable nonetheless, especially to hardcore WordPress fans like myself. The admin control panel is virtually the same (nearly identical compared to past transitions) and much of the fundamental inner-working remain the same. Changes and added functionalities include but are not limited to:
Controversial Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Takes to Twitter to Counter Critics
Saturday, May 1st, 2010
I’ve already mentioned that blogs can be used as powerful tools to decry a social issue or start a Bolivarian revolution. This week Hugo Chavez, controversial socialist president of Venezuela, took to the blogosphere with a Twitter account called chavezcandanga. “Candanga” roughly translates to “devil.”
With only two tweets so far, he doesn’t have as many followers as Ashton Kutcher but he’s off to a good start. According to the AP, Chavez plans to use the Twitter to counter his online critics.
New study suggest blog post quantity trumps quality for online popularity
Monday, April 19th, 2010
Still believe all that hogwash about quality over quantity? According to a study presented at the British Psychological Society’s Annual Conference last Wednesday, bloggers who post frequently are much more “attractive” than infrequent posters, regardless of post quality.
Twitter to implement sponsored tweets
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
At this year’s Chirp, the official Twitter developer conference, COO Dick Costolo announced plans to implement Twitter’s “monetization engine” which will allow twitterers to pay to promote their tweets. This from CNET News:
The company insists that “promoted tweets” aren’t ads, but tweets, which in a sense is just Silicon Valley futurist-speak. But in a sense, they’re right: In choosing to promote a tweet in search, a company selects keywords and then chooses the existing tweets from its account that it wants to promote. Users can reply to them, retweet them, and add them as favorites. There will be real-time analytics attached. Businesses, more or less, are paying to push their tweets further into the Twitter universe than they would be otherwise.
[Gawker - Valleywag] Google CEO ‘disses’ blogging
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
![Google CEO Eric Schmidt [Gawker Valleywag] Google CEO disses blogging](http://www.blogtap.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Google-CEO-Eric-Schmidt.jpg "Google CEO Eric Schmidt")
Google CEO Eric Schmidt made some comments to the American Society of News Editors that may have raised eyebrows in the blogging community (via Valleywag via Nieman Lab):
There is an art to what you do. And if you’re ever confused as to the value of newspaper editors, look at the blog world. That’s all you need to see.
Gawker blogger Ryan Tate points out that Schmidt “runs the biggest single blog network in the world, which makes it all the more bizarre that the Google CEO was insulting bloggers at a newspaper conference.”
Yes, newspaper editors need to take a very close look at the blogging world. According to Technorati, full time bloggers who advertised on their site made an average of $122,222 in the year 2009. Meanwhile The New York Times, strapped for cash, is mortgaging its headquarter building.
Wp-config.php security leak – hundreds of blogs hacked
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
**Important update below
Dark Reading has reported that hundreds of WordPress blogs have been hacked over the past week do to improperly chmod-ed wp-config.php files. The vulnerabilities were a result of owner hosting provider negligence and not faulty WordPress software.
All of the blogs affected were hosted by Network Solutions. The attacker used a type of scanner that extracts information from wp-config.php that have read and write privileges open for group and public, according to Sucuri Security Labs which has been working with Network Solutions.
Yahoo to release a new style guide for web writing
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
If it’s one thing serious bloggers need, it’s an objective style book like what print publications have in The Associated Press Stylebook or The Chicago Manual of Style.
Is website one word or two? Is internet capitalized? Is it re-tweet or retweet?
Matt Mullenweg announces VaultPress beta for WordPress
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
WordPress is already known for its reliable backup features. By default, every time a post is revised on a WordPress blog, the WordPress engine creates a backup just for that revision. Users can export a backup of all their posts and user settings into an XML file that can be easily imported through the admin control panel.
VaultPress by Automattic (WordPress’ parent company) promises something even more. The service, currently in beta stages, will automatically update WordPress blogs with vital security updates (as opposed to manual updates) and create restore points for all settings and customizations.
“The vision of VaultPress is to ensure that blogs and sites under its care are always completely secure, regardless of what happens,” Mullenweg wrote at the official VaultPress blog. “Today, this means every bit of content will be safe, from plugins and themes to the smallest comment or post revision, with WordPress-aware, real-time, multi-cloud backups. This is some of the most advanced technology I’ve seen interact with WordPress.”
Create a blog to decry a social issue or start a Bolivarian Revolution
Friday, March 26th, 2010
An elementary school teacher who forgot her lunch one day was forced to eat what the kids eat in the cafeteria. Yuck!
What ensued was a day by day blogging crusade of every food served in the cafeteria in 2010 to raise awareness for inadequate nutrition in school lunches. In a matter of months “Mrs. Q” (the alias for the undercover eater) managed to attract an audience of over 3,000 followers to her “Fed Up With Lunch” Google Blogger blog and got her story heard on ABC’s Good Morning America.
Now that says something about the power of wee little blogs to raise awareness for social issues.
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