Small Business Ideas | SMO, The New Small Business SEO

Small Business Ideas

Prediction: SMO (Social Media Optimization) will become the new small business SEO.  Google's decision to include paid product search results will force entire industries to adapt by migrating to Social Media Marketing.  Read More...

Small Business Ideas | How to Calculate your Marketing Budget

Small Business Ideas

As a general rule, small businesses with revenues less than $5 million should allocate 7-8 percent of their revenues to marketing. This budget should be split between:

1) Brand Development: website, blogs, sales collateral, etc.

2) Promoting Your Business:  campaigns, advertising, events, etc.

Read more...

Bootstrap | Miami Shared Office Space

Miami entrepreneurs, can you help us with your feedback regarding shared office space? http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RVQHNDS

Thanks!!!

 

Small Business Ideas | SEO Tidbits - Did you know...

Small Business Ideas

Small Business owners who do their own digital marketing need to consider what their end user would like and ultimately what search engines would find natural and rankable.  Read more...

Small Business Ideas | Best Performing VC Funds Are Smaller Than $500 Million!

Small Business Ideas

Smaller Funds...The Future of VC Funding.  Sequoia announced their next fundraising round will be split into a series of fund vehicles rather than one large fund.   Read More...

Small Business Ideas | How to Unlock $7.5 Billion of New Investment in StartUps

Small Business Ideas

Exempting capital gains taxes on investments in startups held for five years or more would unlock $7.5 billion of new investment in startups!  Read More...

Bootstrap | StartUps Must Plan for Slow Customer Payments

Business Bootstrap

Entrepreneurs who said their biggest challenge was customers paying late or not making payments jumped from 2 percent in 2008 to 14 percent in 2010.  Read more...