How to Scale a Business
So you’ve made the decision to grow your business – congratulations! Now get ready for the next challenge: how to scale your business for growth. Even if you manage to sell like crazy, you’ll soon have another problem: you have to be able to deliver to all those new customers. Scalability is about capacity and capability. Does your business have the capacity to grow? Will your business systems, infrastructure and team be able to accommodate growth? If growth causes your company to stumble because of confusion, orders falling through the cracks, insufficient staff, miscommunication, not enough manufacturing or delivery capacity –you’re going to have unhappy customers. The...
Getting the Best Results from Email Marketing
What best practices should small business owners follow when it comes to email marketing? SendGrid’s second annual Global Email Benchmark Report offers some insights. The report analyzed data from nearly 50 billion emails from over 100,000 different senders in 25 industries to help companies assess the effectiveness of their email marketing strategies. Here’s what they found: Send rates are down. The average email send rate declined from 9.8 sends per month last year to 8.1. Open rates are up. During the same time period, open rates increased from 27.3 percent to 30.6 percent. Click rates are essentially the same. Click rates dropped slightly, from 2.8 percent to 2.5...
Top 12 Customer Service Quotes 4 of 12
Top 12 Customer Service Quotes 4 of 12 Quote 04: Your customer doesn’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. • Office In America Co. Bring possibilities to your business. We are your business service provider in corporate address, office space, co-working space, personal assistant, mail handling, conference room, meeting space, phone number, fax number and more. Are you trying to bring success to your business? Visit us to learn more at OfficeInAmerica.com Resource: Icraftopia...
Is Your Business Ready to Go International?
Is Your Business Ready to Go International? Think big corporations lead the way in exporting products around the world? You might be surprised to learn that 97 percent of US exporters are small businesses, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Our new infographic, Small Business, Big Trade, highlights the importance of exporting for the success of many small companies. Although fewer than one percent of America’s 30 million companies export, small businesses are gaining revenue share among them. In 2002, only 27 percent of revenue from US exports went to small businesses. Just 12 years later, that rate had risen to 33 percent in 2014, the Census Bureau...
SEO 101: Seven Tips for Increasing Your Search Rankings
SEO 101: Seven Tips for Increasing Your Search Rankings If you’re a small business owner, you’ve almost certainly heard the words “search engine optimization” before. It’s no longer enough to have a website where potential and returning customers can find your location and hours, or even order from you directly—you need to make sure your site is doing the best it can to reach the top of the search rankings. This is SEO 101. Whether your business is competing with other local businesses in the same industry or looking to grab a national or even global market, appearing in the first page of search results is crucial:...
Business Entrepreneurs Networking
Business Entrepreneurs Networking Event went great. In every meeting, there are new entrepreneurs who come to network with other business owners. In some occasions, it is not what you know, but it is who you know. Be sure to socialize with other entrepreneurs after the meetings to help each other succeed and grow. During our events , we have a special guest covering a special topic. Our Speaker was Shane Hennesey from Rising Tides, who talked about the energy you put out determines the energy you’ll get back. Where attention goes, energy flows. So let’s get conscious about where you are putting your energy. The lenses you view life through...
Top 12 Customer Service Quotes 3 of 12
Top 12 Customer Service Quotes 3 of 12 Quote 03: Customers don’t expect you to be perfect. They expect you to fix things when they go wrong. • Office In America Co. Bring possibilities to your business. We are your business service provider in corporate address, office space, co-working space, personal assistant, mail handling, conference room, meeting space, phone number, fax number and more. Are you trying to bring success to your business? Visit us to learn more at OfficeInAmerica.com Resource: Icraftopia...
Take Your Business Global to Increase Sales and Profit
Take Your Business Global to Increase Sales and Profit The SBA Houston District Office will be participating at the International Pipeline, Oil and Gas Safety Conference March 14-16. This conference seeks to address process safety issues in the upstream, midstream and downstream sub-sectors of the industry; with special focus on well control safety, process safety, pipeline safety, hazardous transportation safety and new regulatory impact. To help improve public safety/health and environmental impact in the various communities where the industry operates- with emerging technologies, leak detection and prevention technologies, emission reduction technologies, compliance audit, best practices to reduce risks and hazards, and improve the overall operational safety is...
Working Remotely Is Bad for Your Productivity: Here’s Why
Working Remotely Is Bad for Your Productivity: Here’s Why It’s no secret that technology has made it easy to work from anywhere at any time during the day. The freedom it can provide an employee is nothing short of, well, sexy. Maybe not the whole working in pajamas thing, but you get my meaning. Look at it this way: As an employer, it’s like you’re giving your employees the freedom to be their own bosses. But kids, pets, and that drawer that needs straightening can all be distractions for almost anyone working from home, which isn’t ideal for business leaders preaching productivity. In fact, people who telecommute roughly two...
Top 12 Customer Service Quotes 2 of 12
Top 12 Customer Service Quotes 2 of 12 Quote 02: Your best customers leave quite an impression. Do the same and they won’t leave. • Office In America Co. Bring possibilities to your business. We are your business service provider in corporate address, office space, co-working space, personal assistant, mail handling, conference room, meeting space, phone number, fax number and more. Are you trying to bring success to your business? Visit us to learn more at OfficeInAmerica.com Resource: Icraftopia...