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4 Topics All Entrepreneurs Should Study for Business Success
Whether you’re a new entrepreneur keen to launch your first home-based business, or someone who has been operating a venture for a while, it’s important to hone your skills in multiple areas if you want to give your organization the best chance of success. After all, most business owners have to juggle a lot of tasks and be a “jack of [...]
BikeMinds.com Makes Finding the Best in Motorcycle Gear Easier
Motorcycle tech startup BikeMinds has launched an online ratings and reviews system geared to inspire and help riders in the customization of their bikes. The new vendor ratings system provides the riding community with an outlet for advice and feedback regarding the motorcycle products and services they care about. If the successes of [...]
How to Overcome 5 Common Barriers to Building a Successful Business Online
Copyright: nyul / 123RF Stock Photo Based on results of May 2016 Alignable- GoDaddy U.S. Small Business Survey By Alignable’s Dan Slagen and GoDaddy’s Andrea Rowland Copyright 2016 Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC. All rights reserved. To better understand the challenges small business owners face with regards to doing business online, we [...]
TheShops.TV – Making Waves in the Online Shopping World
The era of streaming is here to stay, as consumers expect to be able to watch what they want when they want it, and continue to say goodbye to cable and satellite in favor of sites like Netflix and Hulu. Commerce is poised for a similar makeover, and theshops.tv is leading the way. Launched by a group of seasoned executives from Silicon [...]
Nearly 1 in 3 Small Businesses Don’t Have Websites
As many large retailers struggle with competition from e-commerce, in the small business sector even having a website is not yet a foregone conclusion, according to the May 2016 SurePayroll Small Business Scorecard®. Nearly 1 in 3 (28%) of small business owners reported not having a company website for their business. For those that do [...]
How Small Businesses Benefit from Working with a Vendor Partner
During the early days of most small businesses, technology is relatively easy to manage. In fact, many small home businesses actually begin with consumer computers, printers, and basic networking equipment. However, as your business grows, it will become increasingly clear that the laptop you bought at the office supply store a few years [...]
Help on the Home Front: Meet Debra Cohen
The Blueprints After the purchase of their first home, Cohen and her husband soon discovered how difficult it was to find reliable home improvement contractors. Working a 40-hour week left little time to search for names of trustworthy painters, plumbers and carpenters. It occurred to Cohen that if she was having difficulty, other new [...]
What Retailers and Brands Can Learn from Amazon about E-Commerce
We often hear of retailers struggling with “competing in the Amazon-era,” the current e-commerce market that includes the web-based giant. At DealsPlus, we work with thousands of online retailers big and small, including Amazon. We see and hear about this often. Amazon is without question a formidable competitor (or has the potential to [...]
Preparing for Summer: How to Make Some Extra Money Online
New infographic shows that we struggle to make our wages last all month, with 34% of people running out of money completely before the month is out. We could all do with that little bit of extra wiggle room in our finances couldn’t we? We can’t all become ‘dotcom’ billionaires, but there are so many nifty and not-too-time-consuming ways [...]
Handling a Divorce While Managing Your Home Business
There are so many issues that can transpire in a marriage. But what is the solution for this? Should every problem conclude in ugly divorce? If you check out the website divorce debbie you will realize that so many celebrity couples may opt for divorce for petty reasons. If you are working from home and earning [...]