Starting a small business is hard. And in today’s economy, getting the most for your money often equates to the creative distribution of your financial resources.
That’s why so many entrepreneurs and small businesses are inventing ways to bootstrap their operations. Luckily, there are a number of affordable tools and strategies that cost little but deliver big, which is ideal when your business is on a budget.
As a provider of business services and entrepreneur myself, here are five resources I’ve found that are currently working well for small businesses.
- Inventive marketing – Generate interest in your business through creativity. For example, try promoting a contest like The Royal Society of Chemists.
Starting a business is an exhilarating time. It can also be a very stressful and busy time. As a local business owner, you often end up wearing all of the hats (CEO, Accounting, HR, Marketing, etc.) in the beginning due to lack of funding early on.
As we start to see mergers and acquisitions activity ramp up, we shift focus to the value of technology due diligence.
When using social media tools like Twitter to promote your business, it’s important to use them strategically so that you’re not wasting your time.
Twitter has not only received quite a bit of press in the past year, but it has also become an important tool for many trying to market their business, product or personal brand. Of course, people and businesses alike are doing this with a varying degree of success and some have a much better handle on the whole social media for marketing thing than others. Here are a few tips to improve your Twitter experience if you’re floundering or if you’re not seeing the results that you had hoped.
If you want to improve performance, or likewise increase capacity or capability, you need to track the one thing that you’ll never get back: time.
