BUSINESS BUILDING TIPS

Feature your business in Natalie Gouche’s 2012 Holiday Gift Guide

As you know I LOVE supporting small business owners and I encourage everyone to do the same when it comes to shopping. For the last few years I have done a gift guide for most every major holiday including Mother’s Day, Father’s day, Valentine’s Day and of course Christmas. Click HERE to see a sample …

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Get More Traffic To Your Vending Booth Using Twitter Search

Think Twitter is a waste of time? Having a dead booth at a vending event, sitting in the back and waiting for customers to walk up to you is a waste of time! Here is a quick video on how to maximize your vending opportunities by using Twitter’s search feature as well as #hashtags. What …

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Horror Stories: Groupons & Deep Discount Deals Hurting Small Business?

I think we can all agree that discounts are an important part of any business, but when do these so called deals hurt small businesses? BEWARE and think about these things: #1 Limit the amount of coupons a customer can redeem #2 Plan for a busy day and make sure you have enough staff to …

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How to close business on Twitter (without picking up the phone)

Twitter can be scary to some and a waste of time to most people but the strategy I am going to show you below has worked for me time and time again. Sometimes it works immediately; sometimes days, weeks or even months after but it works! And it works perfectly while I’m sitting on my couch without …

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Can Social Media Scores Get You a Job or a client?

With the rise of LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, the most competitive jobseekers are developing a whole new set of networking skills. Of course, branding yourself as a passionate, but balanced professional can be tough. Who should you be following on Twitter? In which LinkedIn debate should you post an intelligent question? How “real” should you …

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The Truth About Holiday Email Marketing

It’s that time of year again! You should be thinking about your holiday marketing strategies. Every year, marketers expect to make big sales around the holidays and every year, they base their marketing tactics on the last year’s consumer behavior. To help you out this year, take a look at the reports of how consumers …

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To post or not to post? What you need to know about your reputation.

There are 900 million social media users plugged into Facebook alone, and nearly 500 million of them log into the social network every single day. In fact, in just one day on Facebook, 250 million photos are uploaded, and 532 million statuses are updated. And that doesn’t even count the millions of tweets sent, tumblrs …

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