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New Study Reveals How Online Reviews Impact Small Business Revenue
We’re roughly 10 years into the golden era of online review sites, and small business owners often stress about their “star rating” and spend lots of time fretting about a bad review online. But how much impact do online reviews actually have on a local business? To find out, Womply conducted a landmark study that uncovers the financial impact of online reviews on small business revenue. Womply’s data science team conducted an in-depth analysis of transactions and…
WordPress 5.1 is due out this week, that tale of the missing back-up
Make good back-ups of your WordPress website before you run the update. WordPress version 5.1 is due out this week.
Small Business Search Optimization A Case By The Numbers
Your website content must solve a searcher’s problem in as few words as possible. Creativity in content creation and presentation is a must! Per Internet Live Stats, Google processes over 40,000 search queries every second on average, which translates to over 3.5 billion searches per day and 1.2 trillion searches per year worldwide. Why is this important? If your business is counting on new customers finding you via a Google search, then you must create…
Four Tips for encouraging website visitor conversion
This article is about things you can do to encourage people to take your desired call to action.
Three tips for having fun in your business
This should go without saying, but so many of my business owner friends fail in this critical area. It is your business, HAVE FUN!
Five tips to starting your own business when over 50 years old
As a 50 year old man, my employment opportunity is lower than the fresh out of college graduate. We cost more, have more family obligations, and very often struggle with health issues. While we have more experience and can do thinking jobs generally faster and more accurately than the typical 25 year old, most businesses worry more about throughput than accuracy. For us older folk who might have experienced a job R.I.F. (reduction in force),…
Promotional Pens Use Tip 43
How to use promotional pens to promote your business. One of our customers, a bank, buys tens of thousands of pens every year and every teller and bank representative is instructed to give them out during every human interface…but that is not the tip. This particular bank takes it one step further! Every bank representative is is given a large supply of pens to carry with them. When they go to a restaurant and are…