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RIM uses a new marketing campaign to avoid another 2011

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RIM places its future on super hero cartoons 2011 is a year Research in Motion (RIM) would like to forget. It was the year of their failed Playbook launch with mediocre sales, RIM’s enterprise server crashed twice leaving BlackBerry users out of touch with the world and causing havoc to businesses

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Using Pinterest to Market Your business

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The Buzz About Using Pinterest 2012 has brought about a new buzz of how Pinterest can be used for marketing a business. Pinterest  is an online pinboard that can be used to organize and share things you and the friends of your community love. Pinterest’s users are 54%

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French Fries and Launching Your Business

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My French Fry and Launching My Business  When you start any new business there are forces that can pull you in many directions.  The pull  to  start  things right away: business cards, website, Twitter name  or company logo design. But it is the stuff that you have to

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Your Vision Statement & Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHag)

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How Big is Your Vision Statement and BHAG? Author Jim Collins coined Big Hair Audacious Goal  or BHAG (bee-hag) to indicate a meaningful, organizational changing goal that gives direction and strategic advantage for years to come.  We all know that goals are vital for everyone, but is

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How to develop an effective website content strategy for your business

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Website Content Strategy  Checklist Here are a few things to consider when developing a  website content  strategy for your business to help convert lookers into buyers: Define your Goals: What exactly do you want to achieve with your website’s content: members, sales, or just pure information to

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The Best Recipe for Marketing to Your Perfect Customer

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Perfect Customer Marketing Tactics Having the right mix of ingredients  is the key to marketing to your perfect customer. So how do you go about marketing to your perfect customer? In order to market to your perfect customers, you have to get to know them. In order

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How much is my business worth?

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Resources to help measure your business worth when buying or investing into a business Business Development Bank of  Canada What’s Your Business Worth Business Development Canada (BDC) uses four methods to determining the value of a business: Asset-based approach Business comparison Company’s past earnings Doing it yourself BDC suggests

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All you need to know to survive the Dragon’s Den to grow your business

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Are You a Will be Dragon’s in the Dragon’s Den? Reality TV shows such as The Dragon’s Den and Shark Tank let aspiring entrepreneurs (aka will be dragons)  pitch their business to a panel of business moguls.  These will be dragons are seeking venture capital and mentors

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Leveraging your business connections

The classic thought to grow a business  is through business connections. It is not what you know, it is who you know. If you make a few powerful friends and nurture these connections  your business will prosper. Having larger number of acquaintances—who might be called “not-so-close friends too

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Creating website content that drives traffic to your business

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In developing a content strategy for your business’s website  that drives traffic here are a few things to consider: Define your Goals: What exactly to do you want to achieve with your website’s content: members, sales, or just pure information to the members of you community. If

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