Our friend Shashi Bellamkonda is back with another guest post. This time it’s a discussion question. What to do when someone calls you a Guru or Expert? When someone calls you a guru or an expert, it usually means that you are a good learner and have developed some useful knowledge that can be imparted…
Our friend Shashi Bellamkonda is back with another guest post of a small business story. “Did you really find me on the Internet?” Small Business owner to me By Shashi Bellamkonda A few weekends ago on a Saturday morning, I went out to my car to begin my weekend errands and saw that I had…
[Another guest post by our great friend Denise McGill ] By Denise McGill To say the least, small business owners must be savvy in many areas of business. It often means you are the decision maker, bookkeeper, salesperson, office administrator and marketing manager. However…with having to wear so many hats, how does one person keep…
(Mark Hayward is back with another guest post on marketing for small business, drawn from his own experience. You can follow him on Twitter @mark_hayward) If you are like me, when you purchased or opened your business, you really did not have a clue about how to market yourself online. Perhaps, you still don’t. Certainly,…
Our friend Shashi Bellamkonda is back with another guest post of small business stories. In 1998 I worked behind a counter at a popular restaurant where take out was busy in the evenings. Now in those days the process was: Call the restaurant and ask for a menu to be faxed to you I would…
[You can download the ebook of this series in our Subscribers’ Vault. ] By Denise McGill This is the last article in a series of four to help small and rural businesses write sales-generating web content, product descriptions, sales letters and more. In last week’s article, Write with a Clear Message, I discussed writing your…
[Guest author Shashi Bellamkonda has a small business profile to share. It may be from downtown Chicago, but I think we can find some good ideas in it. – Becky ] I was at SOBCon in Chicago and had a problem. I had been traveling for a week and did not get a chance to…
[You can download the ebook of this series in our Subscribers’ Vault.] By Denise McGillThis is the 3rd article in a series of four to help small and rural businesses write sales-generating web content, product descriptions, sales letters and more. In last week’s article, Write to “Benefit” Your Customer, we touched on creating catalog and…
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