Posted by Michael Hartzell on Fri, Jul 16, 2010
The 21st century offers a flexible office rental space at Meadow Creek Professional Center for any location including: Sammamish, Issaquah, Bellevue and the world. No longer are you limited to having a space where all of your staff are in core office. You can hire an executive in Sammamish, WA and have them work in an office near their residence and they can work virtually in a professional business center which provides everything including the kitchen sink.
In fact, if you are expanding your business to an area where you do not yet have a presence, using Meadow Creek Professional Center for a virtual office provides the services such as mail, telephone, meeting rooms, business offices, and much more.
Maybe it is time to rethink how you have the team all committed to commuting 90 minutes to a central location only to communicate by email, text, file sharing and phone when each could improve efficiencies and devote more of the day to production by utilizing a more flexible office space for your small business.
While you can contact Anna and learn more about how to create a leaner and more efficient business in the heart of the Pacific Northwest Washington, you can also make your own professional video such as the one above in about 20 minutes.
How? Animoto.
Share your photos, send a message, tell a story. Animoto is one tool I rely on heavily. There is a free version available. The video I made above which offers a link at the end along with other features is the Pro version.
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Posted by Michael Hartzell on Fri, Jul 02, 2010
How simple can a blog for your business be? How about an introduction to make a point and then an invitation to boost traffic for free? See the paragraph and link below from thefind.com
Boost Your Traffic for Free on TheFind.com
Take Advantage of the #2 Shopping Engine with 23 Million Visits per Month! Join TheFind's FREE Merchant Program and increase your retail store's visibility. It takes just a few minutes, while you get great benefits like: comprehensive product feeds, total control over the information on your store, display of your logo & coupons, high conversion rates, and access to an expanding audience.
Register with TheFind's Merchant Program
If you click the link above it takes you to a landing page.
Is the landing page you see enough for you to sign up for free?
If you are a retail merchant and want to showcase your products, why would you not?
There is no doubt of the goal with the landing page. They are not giving details nor asking you to get married for life. There is no fine print.
This is what to watch for:
Act Quickly.
For a limited time, the UpFront Merchant program (a $299 value) is FREE when you register your store in TheFind's new Merchant Center. Get started being an UpFront Merchant today.
Should you participate? How long is "limited"?
By all appearances "The Find" is a search engine specifically for products. The more products in their engine, the better service they provide. To offer better search results will mean more happy visitors.
As of this moment, the most popular recent searches are shown on the front page:
Now you will understand the power of having a blog. If you read the blog at
http://merchantblog.thefind.com/, you will have a better understanding of who and what they are. A blog helps to fill in the gaps.
I have neither tried this discovery nor do I have clients with experience. It is something for the review shelf. www.thefind.com has high traffic and the current Alexa rank is 1,379. Obviously there is a good chance that your competition is aware and listing their products.
I am interested in your experience with this. Please share. www.thefind.com appears to be a resource as an example for a great landing page for your business and as a resource to list your retail products online. Test, test, test is always the answer to the question. Time to test.
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Posted by Michael Hartzell on Fri, May 21, 2010
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Building a team in business can be daunting. How would you like to start slow and not How brave are you with YOUR service? Are you so confident that you give a guarantee? The virtual Gutu, Jen Rai says yes to a free trial and guarantee.
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