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Small Business Success Tip Includes TheBrain


The Five Essentials to Business Success can be found via Google with a few clicks. The essentials are simple and can be evaluated quickly. A visual mind map such as TheBrain empowers you to brainstorm visually on your computer. 

Once you have the explicit knowledge of the five essentials to business success and put them in the “important quadrant” as referred to in the book by Stephen Covey “7 Habits of Highly Effective People”, remember these four words: “It is not enough”.

Topics: Business Success Tools Business Success Free Software

Who Are Entrepreneurs Infographic

Who are entrepreneurs?  A picture is worth a thousand words.  This infographic is not only helpful for understanding the entrepreneur, it is a great example of how an outstanding resource at DailyInfographic.com offers valuable content which will be linked to, shared and book marked.

Topics: Definition Entrepreneur

One Atom Thick Graphene Discovery Changes the Future of Business

Graphene, the strongest and thinnest known material in existence, is 100 times stronger than steel.  Its discovery six years ago won University of Manchester professors Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Topics: Technology News Prediction

Blogging for Business Success Graphic

The graphic below shares simple thoughts about blogging for business success.  A pdf is available here or by clicking on the graphic.

Topics: Business Blogging Inbound Marketing Landing Pages

Shorter

Shorter might mean: 

Topics: Leadership Entrepreneur

I Like Randy | Starting a Business

Randy writes on About.com.

Topics: Business Planning

In the way

There are four types of people.

Topics: Leadership

Build Your Own App for Android or iPhone, No Experience Needed

Building your own app is an option for those who want lower the financial risk.  Small Businesses can go head to head with big businesses by making their own app for a Google Android or for an iPhone.  Without knowing your business plan I can only show you the videoa to demonstrate how to make the mobile apps.

Topics: Free Software apps Mobile Marketing

Overcome Business Barriers: Listen to the April Linchpin Session

Take yourself away from business (or from the TV) for a moment.  Listen to this audio by Seth Godin. As usual, he offers a different way to think about business success.  If you are unemployed, it will make you pause to consider what is the reality of your current situation and your potential success.  If your business is worse off than in prior years, you may be inspired to rethink your strategy.

Topics: Business Success Podcast

How do I find links to my site?

Here are resources to help you find links to your site.  No links to your website reduces the chance of being found.  Experts agree that links to a site has a direct impact on SEO.  Each link to your website is another door leading to your website.  Those businesses with more links have more authority in the eyes of search engines.  Each link is a "vote" saying:  "Your website is a place to be."

Topics: Link Building SEO Inbound Marketing

Remove Business Risk: Malware | Anti-Spyware | Backup

Business Computer goes down.  Cost will be $2000.  This is calculated from your time and effort to fix it (three days), new software, computer repair bill (after you can't fix it), loss of data, loss of customers, and loss of awareness.  I bet you can't go six months before a major computer bug will zap your business, leaving you with a wish for an unattainable success.

Topics: Business Software Free Software

How fast is your website? Load Speed Matters

How fast is your website?  How fast does it load?  Regardless of what Google Blog or other search engines say about speed affecting seo and page rank, there will be no business success if people leave because of a slow page load.  The Internet speeds for mobile are notched up dramatically as you will now see advertisements for 4G speed.  If the website for your business is slow to load?  It will become a dinosaur and be passed by.

As a business owner...

  • You don't want to be a programmer nor do you want to spend the hours necessary to keep up with the technical jargon.  

  • What you need to know is how fast your website load times are relative to your competitors.  Also consider what your customers say is acceptable.  Your website may be too slow simply because your customers say so.  To have a tool to measure success will help you speak to the person(s) who are responsible for website design or graphics.

Here are three easy tools to analyze page load speed for your business website.

Pingdom - The Full Page Test loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes).  It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser.

The load time of all objects is shown visually with time bars.

You can view the list of objects either in load order or as a hierarchy.  The hierarchy view allows you to see which objects are linked to, for example a CSS file.

Every test also shows general statistics about the loaded page such as the total number of objects, total load time, and size including all objects.

Topics: SEO Internet Marketing Website Design