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How to Make the Most of Your Holiday Email Marketing
The holidays are one of the most important times of year for small businesses, startups and e-commerce business to increase sales and boost revenue. One smart way to capitalize on this expected increase in consumer spending is to polish your holiday email marketing practices. According to Deloitte's U.S. holiday economic forecast, holiday retail sales are expected...
WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Online Purchasing is Here to Stay (Episode 107)
On this morning's WJR Business Beat, Jeff discusses a continuing trend in online purchasing. A recent study from GoDaddy shows that in states that have begun reopening their brick-and-mortar stores, the majority of consumers are still choosing to make their purchases online rather than in-store. Tune in to the WJR Business Beat, below, to hear...
GoDaddy’s State of Entrepreneurship Study Shows Millennials are Leading the Pack in 2020
It's inspiring to reflect on how the state of business has evolved over the years. There has been a generational shift in how people are approaching their career paths. For many, working for one company until retirement is becoming less popular as more and more people are choosing to become their own boss. At GoDaddy,...
3 Reasons Why it’s a Great Time to Be an Entrepreneur
There’s one constant for small business owners and entrepreneurs: the continuing need to adapt in the face of changing technological and societal landscapes. This need to evolve and move quickly can be challenging, but positively, we’ve found that entrepreneurs are optimistic about these new opportunities and confident in their ability to grow their businesses. It’s...
How to Hack Your Startup’s Sales with Social Proof
With the proliferation of online recommendation platforms like Yelp, Google Reviews, and TripAdvisor, word-of-mouth has grown into a ubiquitous influencing factor within online purchasing behavior. According to a recent Nielsen study, 92 percent of consumers using Yelp will make a purchase after visiting the platform and 25 percent of those visitors will make a purchase...
5 Quick and Actionable Marketing Ideas For Your Startup
Here, we will talk about five actionable, real world ideas you can use to kickstart your startup’s marketing campaign. Implementing the following steps is rather easy; while the hard part is the follow through. However, if you are persistent, you will see results quickly. Branding your business Branding is the first and most important place...
Top 6 Reasons Why Entrepreneurs Should Back Up Their Data
You’ve invested countless hours and sweat equity getting your business idea online. You’ve established your online presence through the creation of a website (e.g. yourawesomeidea.com), and you’ve established professionalism and credibility attaching your email to that domain (e.g. [email protected]). Things are going great! You’re growing, acquiring customers and brokering relationships. But have you paused to...
The Mechanics of Building a Successful Blog (With Over 2 Million Readers) on the Side
My decision to start blogging on the side of my day job, building relationships with influencers in my industry is what propelled me into a six-figure freelance business working with clients like LinkedIn, Zendesk, Google, Intuit and more. On top of that, my blog has also helped me generate thousands of dollars in passive income each...
How to Choose the Right Website Builder
If you own a business, you may need a website. Sure, you can have a social media account (or several), but a website is home base. It’s where you showcase your products and services, host your content, gather leads and really establish credibility. That said, one of the biggest problems that new business owners face is...
The Ultimate Checklist to Building an Optimized WordPress Website
Building a website is an exciting process. Besides choosing your designs and building your content, it’s important to lay out some fundamental tools. With more than a quarter of all sites on the web built on WordPress, there’s a reason so many choose this platform. WordPress is an easier, more effective and efficient way to...
Startup Cheat Sheet for Branding, Domain Selection and Logo Design
Brands that have grown decade after decade weren’t the epitome of perfection when they began. Think of Google when it launched the search engine; it was not the powerhouse it presently is. But Google had a clear vision about its product and laid the foundation in the very beginning. I started two ventures in 2016, and...