If you have a small business, chances are that you need to add a map in your website, to make easier for your customers to locate you. In this post, I'm going to introduce you an easy solution: GoogleMapsWidget. It's what you need to build the perfect map with a thumbnail and lightbox in minutes! No nonsense. Just install it and get it done. How Google Maps … [Read more...]
End Your Customers Search For A Fantastic Vendor?
The success of any business is its customers. They are the cogs in the machine that give you a revenue, that supply ith a profit margin, that pay your employees wages and your company’s overheads. It doesn’t matter whether you sell wooden toys or a consultancy service; the customer is the pivotal part of everything you do. That is why you need to ensure you are doing … [Read more...]
Using SlideModel to Launch and Run Your Business
In today’s competitive business landscape, you must give yourself all the tools necessary to meet your customer’s needs as well as your financial goals. This means having a clear picture of your business model, revenue streams, projections, and a hundred other data points. Planning and data presentation tools like SlideModel can help you to not only plan your business, but … [Read more...]
Now and Later: 3 Ways to Shape Company Culture Over Time
In what was arguably David Foster Wallace’s most famous speech, he told a story of two young fish who encounter an older fish as they’re swimming along one day. The older fish asks them how the water is. Puzzled, one of the younger fish asks the other what water is. The takeaway? “The immediate point of the fish story is that the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities … [Read more...]
4 Reasons Why Cyber Insurance Is Good for Small Business
The headlines might carry news of cyberattacks against large companies, such as Target and Home Depot, but the greater reality is that small businesses are as likely, if not more likely to experience a cyberattack. By one estimate, the number of cyberattacks experienced by small- to mid-size businesses (SMBs) increased by more than 40 percent from 2015 to 2016. This rate of … [Read more...]
How to Calculate Your Profit Margin
Simply put, profit is the amount of money you make on a sale after you subtract the cost of acquiring or producing the product. For example, let’s say you sell an item for $200 and it cost you $180 to get it. Your profit is $20. In this case, you’ll have a 10 percent margin on that sale. You sold it for $200, you made $20; 10 percent of 200 is 20. However, this figure … [Read more...]
Retirement and Making Money After Work
I recently retired and was trying to find ways of keeping myself busy without annoying the wife! Usually I spend most of my day outside with the cars - I’ve always been a bit of an enthusiast; going to races and rallies and I have had my share of vintage motors. People always ask how and what I’ve done to when restoring my cars and I enjoy sharing the process! My son … [Read more...]
Does Video Actually Make a Difference?
You sit down to make a call to someone in another country – perhaps a member of a team in a different sales department in your company’s headquarters in another region – and you wonder whether you two really have to sacrifice bandwidth and connectivity for video. Why not just make a simple call, and communicate over high-definition audio without the use of imagery? It might … [Read more...]
Time Is Not to Be Wasted in Business
In the world of business there are few golden rules to adhere to: you must stay ahead of the market, the customer is always right and time cannot be wasted. The latter, as you've probably already guessed, is the topic up for discussion here — so let’s not waste any time and get straight into it! Image source Time really does equal money in business, so wasted time … [Read more...]
An Extra Income… What Are My Options?
We could always do with a little more money, couldn’t we? A constant flurry of rising costs means we are all tightening our purse strings that little bit more with every passing year, and with the tightening comes more worry. Ever since the crash in 2008, the impact has been seen around the western world, and some of us are still feeling those repercussions. People are … [Read more...]