business growth

Top 10 ways to increase fans and interactivity on your Facebook page

With over 900 million users globally, Facebook is clearly the social media platform of choice!  Along with this phenomenal growth in users over the last 2-3 years, Facebook now offer a multitude of tools and apps that enable users to build highly customised business pages.  We are now seeing many businesses taking full advantage of these features to achieve growth through Facebook and its fast becoming one of the most popular marketing tools for small businesses.

To help you use Facebook more strategically to engage with your target audience, here are our Top 10 Ways to Increase Your Fans and Build Interaction on your Facebook Business Page. Continue reading

Twitter for Business: Basics, Terms, Etiquette & Success Tips

If you’re new to Twitter and are wondering how to get involved, here are some of our top Twitter tips to help you explore Twitter more deeply for your business. We’ve also included some tips to help you expand your Twitter network and grow your Twitter following.

Every day, businesses are using Twitter to expand their brand and interact with customers and other people in the business community.

Twitter connects you to people and businesses sharing the latest stories, trends and ideas around topics that YOU find interesting. The power of Twitter lies in its simplicity – it’s easy to sign up, it’s accessible from anywhere and it’s quick and easy to use. It is a ‘real-time’ way of communicating with people online.

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Master your Marketing, Money & Lifestyle so that You SHINE and Your Business SUCCEEDS!

I’m really excited to let you know about something completely new, very exciting and for only a limited few. Something that I deeply believe will make a huge difference to those few…

And here it is …

Introducing my new exclusive coaching program ~ Business Mastery 2012.

I’ve created this program because I absolutely LOVE coaching and strategising with entrepreneurial business owners. And I’ve come to realise that I can be of most service by working very closely and intensively with a small group of awesome clients.

So that’s what I’ve created ~ a super exciting small group program that offers EVERYTHING I wish I could have had access to back when I was itching to grow my business but had not yet learnt what I now know. Continue reading

Crowdsourcing 101: Why crowdsourcing is good for small business

Have you heard the term crowdsourcing and are wondering what it’s all about?

Are you a bit put off by the term and feel as though it’s too ‘jargony’ or just for the ‘tech-heads’ and social media fanatics? Well, let’s just clear that up – it’s not!

Crowdsourcing is simply a mash of the words ‘crowd’ and ‘outsourcing’.  Jeff Howe, who first wrote about crowdsourcing for Wired Magazine back in 2006, explains it as “the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated employee and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call’.  So the basic idea is that you can easily access a community of people to complete business related tasks that would normally be performed by someone within the business, or outsourced.

Crowdsourcing is fast becoming a very important business idea.  Many small business owners are already reaping the rewards of this innovative use of technology – they’ve discovered it’s a clever way to reduce costs and still achieve high quality results.  Continue reading

Five lessons in Business Growth

As mentioned in my last article ‘To Grow or not to Grow?’, over the past 5 years I have loved what I do and I continue to love what I do. It does not feel like work to me because I have amazing clients, I work with fabulous people and well I just love the transformation I can help my clients create with their website, online and email marketing.

Where my business was 5 years ago is a totally different place to where it is now. In fact, the vision I held back then for what was possible was a fraction of what I now envision as being possible for myself, my clients and my business.

The main reason for the change in vision and thinking has been due to the influence of other people in my life. The mentors in my life. Both personal and business. I am in gratitute to the awesome mentors who have contributed to my own growth and today I share the five success lessons that have contributed to the growth of my own business over the past few years.

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