Video used to be the domain of only the largest companies with the biggest marketing budgets. But the explosion of online video sharing sites has given companies of all sizes the opportunity to create and disseminate videos.
H2O New Media, a social media company in the Middle East, will launch its new retail and discounting portal www.promosme.com.
While spending extra money on information archival may seem like a frivolous expense, especially for a well-oiled small business, there are two things to consider when debating the possible costs associated with data backup.
As an entrepreneur, you want to be on the lookout for the newest trends that help keep you lean and profitable. One thing you may want to consider is implementing an online network as an integral part of your business.
First it was a web browser. Then it became an operating system. But look a step further, and it鈥檚 not hard to see how Google鈥檚 Chrome could potentially become the springboard for an entirely new generation of entrepreneurs.
The news is slowly sinking in that Twitter can help small businesses succeed beyond answering customers' questions, networking and providing education. Within a fairly short period of time, Twitter could permanently change how small businesses operate to include hyper-local marketing, advertising, financial information, customer service, data mining, product and service alerts and micropayments.
Confronted with a dumbfounding 90 percent drop-off in revenue at his high-end, custom bicycle business in San Antonio, Texas, Kevin Saunders could easily have closed his shop and resumed a career in finance or aircraft component design.
Three and a half years ago, Matt Flannery was in East Africa when he had a realization. 鈥淚 had always thought Africa was bleak and oppressed,鈥� he says.
Let鈥檚 face it: Your regular customers are on autopilot. When a purchase is repeated enough times, it becomes habit. However, market shifts can disrupt even the most powerful habits, and the current financial meltdown is the single biggest market disruption we鈥檝e ever lived through.
At the risk of dating myself, I'm going to admit that while I was working on my bachelor's degree, this new invention called the PC hit the market. I was truly wowed! I thought to myself, "No more typing, re-typing and typing once again. And Wite-Out? Who needs Wite-Out?" Of course, the prices of those early computers were staggeringly high for a college student but, as the saying goes, where there's a will, there's a way. I worked and worked, and had my computer the next year.