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5 Sales and Marketing Tips to Start Off the New Year

The New Year is a time of renewal, a time to refocus, re-energize and rediscover the things we love about entrepreneurship – and most importantly, it’s a great time for your business to hit the...

byGregg Schwartz

January 4, 2019

How to Make Your Holiday Content Marketing Stand Out

For many businesses, Q4 is the biggest sales season of the year. You may bring in more business in the final weeks of the year than you do at any other time. Even if you...

bySusan Guillory

December 6, 2018

Ask These 4 Questions Before Turning Your E-Commerce Store Into a Physical Storefront

What do Amazon, Warby Parker and Rent the Runway all have in common? Each company began as a tremendously successful e-commerce store, that has since expanded to brick-and-mortar storefronts. Amazon has a physical bookstore in...

byMyCorporation

November 26, 2018

6 Ways to Use Word-of-Mouth Marketing to Promote Your Brand

Word-of-mouth marketing is an effective sales tactic. Yet, cultivating enthusiastic brand ambassadors is a nuanced art. Six accomplished entrepreneurs and members of The Oracles share their top strategies for creating ambassadors who are so excited about your...

byThe Oracles

November 24, 2018

How You Can Be a Neighborhood Champion on Small Business Saturday

Are you ready to #ShopSmall? This year, Small Business Saturday falls on November 24, 2018. While the holiday may be sandwiched between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Small Business Saturday has consistently packed a powerful...

byDeborah Sweeney

November 19, 2018

Why Working Sales on the Side Helps You Be a Better Entrepreneur

When I started my internship in 2000 at one of the country’s biggest investment banks, I was excited to have the company’s name on my résumé. The woman who hired me (for no pay, by...

byMike Monroe

November 19, 2018

Can E-Commerce and Brick-and-Mortar Stores Co-Exist?

Will the ever-growing popularity of online shopping cause brick-and-mortar businesses to die a slow death? Forbes, Huffington Post, Quora and essentially every digital business hub has taken a stab at predicting what will happen to...

byJustin E. Crawford

November 16, 2018

How This Restaurant Keeps Customers Talking with Word-of-Mouth Marketing

The following is excerpted from "Talk Triggers: The Complete Guide to Creating Customers with Word of Mouth" by Jay Baer and Daniel Lemin with permission of Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division...

byJay Baer and Daniel Lemin

October 16, 2018

5 Ways Startups Can Achieve More Results with Less

Business as usual is dead. The pace of change in the digital age has opened up new opportunities, allowing startups to disrupt industries and challenge the giants of the corporate world. You might not...

byGreg Miles

October 11, 2018

Competitive Research and Subject Matter Media Analysis

You have an important announcement going out. Maybe you are launching a new product, you’ve hired a top-tier executive, raised a round of funding or landed a brand-name client. You want to shout this news...

byMichael Volpatt

October 9, 2018

4 Ways to Make Your Startup Appeal to Modern Buyers

It's no secret that buyers have evolved with the digital age. With information at their fingertips and a need for speed, modern consumers are demanding more from businesses than ever before. While many companies are...

byJake Braly

October 1, 2018

7 Form Conversion Killers (and How to Avoid Them)

More than 80 percent of abandoning visitors never return to a website. So, what’s killing those conversions? Smart marketers (or marketing ninjas, as we like to call them) will thwart conversion killers before they strike,...

byChris Byers

September 29, 2018

How to Target Niche Audiences to Supercharge Your Startup’s Sales

Wondering how to build a sustainable sales operation? Join Andy Mackensen, SnackNation co-founder and CMO, as he shares an inside scoop into his inspirational business story in this segment of Leveling Up, an entrepreneur interview show...

byEric Siu

September 27, 2018

Everything You Need to Know to Make Your Content Marketing Shine

We’re past the era when businesses of all sizes had to be convinced of the value of content marketing. That era wasn’t long ago; even just five years ago, a much greater percentage of small...

bySusan Guillory

September 26, 2018

StartupNation Originals: You Are a Badass at Making Money

In “You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth,” #1 New York Times best-selling author, success coach and motivational speaker, Jen Sincero, offers expert tips for unlocking your earning potential. In...

byStartupNation

September 5, 2018

President of AppSumo Shares Killer Growth Strategies to Attract a Surge of New Customers

Is your startup floundering and not seeing the growth you need? Are you ready to learn the tried and true business strategies from experts who have built multi-million dollar teams? Chief Sumo, Noah Kagan, handed AppSumo...

byEric Siu

September 4, 2018

Mixed Signals: 3 Reasons Why Your Business is Losing Leads

Leads are the fuel that all startups need. Without them, your sales team will be without a job in no time, and profits will slow down to a trickle. With advances in technology, getting new...

byParker Davis

August 26, 2018

How SEO Engages Your Customers Throughout the Conversion Funnel

Many of you are likely familiar with the basic benefit of SEO: Your website’s pages rank higher in search engine results for target keywords. The more people exposed to your site through search results, the...

byGrayson Kemper

August 3, 2018

7 Reasons Your Small Business Needs a Podcast

Always on the hunt for ways to grow his financial and insurance advisory firm, Ken Greene recently turned to a less conventional form of small business marketing: he started a podcast. With just under 20...

byNav

July 20, 2018

4 Common Traits of an Online Business That Scales

Any entrepreneurial individual loves the idea of starting a business. In particular, a business that allows him or her to sit back and pursue their life’s endeavors while the money flows in. With the increasing...

byDaniel Boterhoven

July 12, 2018