Business Blogs: Trends, tips, and real-life anecdotes from industry experts.

Have you noticed the growing wave of promotions (contests and sweepstakes) that are all over the internet these days?
Start looking around and you’ll see tons of TV ads that drive people to an online promotion. You’ll also see all sorts of banner ads on sites throughout the Internet trying to get you to click through.
Heck! [...]

Here are tips 1-5 for this week:
#5 Be consistent with your sending frequency. Pick a schedule, whether it is weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly and as often as you can stick to that schedule. This way, your customers will come to expect and anticipate your company’s communications.
#4 Timing is key with Business to Business Communication — [...]

The Brothers Sloan point out that Starbucks created a new market ($4 coffee) where before there was none. (Read their post.) Seth Godin has a great observation about picking a market for your startup company: bigger may be harder than smaller, even though large markets would seem to provide large opportunities. Read Seth’s post.
Hey guys: [...]

Read an article today from a well respected authority suggesting "hot businesses to start today"…. One of those "hot" ideas….."start a coffee shop". A what?!?! You’ve got to be kidding! With Starbucks and 10 other major brands on every corner in every community, how can that be a hot business idea?
Starbucks has taken a hit [...]

One of the simplest, most costly mistakes you can make with your eBay business is choosing the wrong price to list your item at. eBay’s fee structure will charge you an insertion fee to list your item for a duration of time (3 to 10 days) based on the starting bid or fixed price of [...]

Maybe it’s political correctness run amok. Maybe it’s a desire to avoid accountability. Whatever the cause, the business world is full of weasel words: evasions, exceptions, and buts. Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like it is getting harder to find people or companies who will say what they mean in a clear, straightforward, [...]

As most of you know, we travel a great deal for our business endeavors with StartupNation. There’s no denying it, air travel is just undeniably stressful at times.
However, we recently traveled on one of those “no frills” airlines and found to our surprise that the experience was less stressful than it tends to be with [...]