Friday, March 7, 2008

User Friendly Buzz Marketing

Buzz marketing is an unique technique to market a product or website by creating a buzz. Buzz meaning conversation about a particular website. Snapbomb is the buzz in blog marketing. Bloggers continuously search for new sources, and/or tools to use their blogging expertise to earn dollars while blogging. Snapbomb is a website designed for bloggers and advertisers. Snapbomb brings two separate communities together, and utilizing one communities need to satisfy the need of the other.

The topic of blog marketing is a popular subject on the net, snapbomb have created a marketplace exchange for professionals to exchange skills for advertising. The website is well organized, and developed for internet users of all skill levels. It isn't complex or confusing. When visiting http://www.snapbomb.com you will feel comfortable, and enjoy your time on the site. Most websites lose their vistors due to the massive use of sound or pop-up boxes, snapbomb designed a site with the vistor in mind causing the individual to return to site over, and over again.

Monday, March 3, 2008

Management's Dirty Dozen

Every single day, enthusiastic entrepreneurs start about 2,000 new small businesses. Three years from now, about 1,600 of those new businesses will have failed.


Being in the business of helping others break into the retail business, we've had a ringside seat to witness competitors battle it out retail arena, and we've identified the 12 differences that separate the champs from the chumps.


In this article, we reveal those differences and use our observations, experience, and expertise to steer you clear of the most common pitfalls and ensure that your business becomes part of the elite group of successful startups.



Poor management



People launch their own businesses for a variety of reasons. Some think it will be fun and easy. Others aren't happy with their current lifestyle and seek to better themselves financially. Still more look at their boss and think, "If he can do it, then I sure can!"



But the truth is that 80% of new businesses fail within the first three years. The number one reason small businesses fail is, by far, poor management.



Recognizing the essentials of good management



Good management boils down to developing a solid business plan and then effectively executing your plan or adjusting it to meet the needs of the current situation. Effectively managing a business, big or small, requires the following...

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