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WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Support Your Local Merchants (Episode 19)

There are several ways consumers can support their local merchants during these trying times, and on this morning's WJR Business Beat, Jeff highlights two standout programs. This week, Yelp announced a partnership with GoFundMe to provide...

byStartupNation

March 26, 2020

3 Bite-Sized Goals You Can Set (and Achieve) in January

If there’s one thing entrepreneurs love doing, it’s setting goals for their small business. This list is often long and detailed at the start of the year. After all, a new year means new business!...

byMyCorporation

January 2, 2020

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...

byAlisa Neymark

July 1, 2019

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,...

byDean Mathews

May 25, 2019

4 Ways to Boost Your Startup’s Marketing Strategy with User-Generated Content

User-generated content, or UGC, can be anything from pictures and videos to blog posts, reviews and testimonials, created and shared for free by an online audience. Aside from being a great way to gather free content,...

byTabby Farrar

May 10, 2018

Entrepreneurs, is Your Product Fit For the Market?

As an entrepreneur, you may think that some of your ideas are pure gold. In these scenarios, it's easy to jump the gun and start planning your product's name, marketing campaigns, various features, etc. But...

byJustin E. Crawford

February 26, 2018

5 Tips for Getting Your Startup’s New Website Noticed

For centuries, philosophers have wondered whether or not a tree that falls in a forest makes a sound if no one is around to hear it. Entrepreneurs ponder a similar question when it comes to...

byDeborah Sweeney

February 15, 2018

Reputation Management: 3 Tips for Establishing Credibility as a Startup

As a startup, you’re probably still gaining momentum in your industry and may not have the visibility your larger competitors have. They’ve been around longer, so it makes sense that they have a larger social...

byLarry Alton

May 7, 2017

6 Simple Ways to Find Your Target Consumers Online

You’ve taken the first big step and started a business. You know that a website and a social media presence are essential in order for your consumers to find you online, but did you know that...

byDanielle Hall

April 13, 2017

5 Startups Headed for Success (and How You Can Learn from Them)

Smart entrepreneurs know it’s not the business model itself that creates success, it’s the mind and strategy behind it. It’s the long vision, the sleepless nights, the endless pots of coffee and that insatiable drive...

byLarry Alton

March 29, 2017

9 Big Marketing Ideas for Small Business

Small business owners are always on the lookout for that one big marketing idea that will catapult their business into the stratosphere. What I've found, however, is that it isn't just one marketing idea but...

byWendy Kenney

March 25, 2012

Will Smart Phones be the New Driver of Local Commerce?

Over the last year or so, location-based services that integrate tightly with mobile phones have been one of main themes watched by the venture world, and for good reason. As we continue moving forward in...

byCorey Kossack

September 3, 2010