Small Business Blogging

I read an article today titled Starting A Small Business Blog by Doug Platts. In this article he points out some strategies to ensure your blog helps your business move forward as you are starting out. His post ties in nicely with my earlier posts Why Blog and Ask Your Customers.
One of the action steps [...]

Ask Your Customers

I ran across an interesting blog article on Duct Tape Marketing today that ties in really well to enhance a point I was trying to make in my post ‘Why Blog” earlier this week.  The article is called ‘What Would You Google If?”  I encourage you to read it and give some thought to asking your customers [...]

Network, Network, Network

Small businesses in Halifax NS should be networking all the time. Networking helps you continue to expand your circle of contacts and improves the chances that people will refer people in their circle of influence to you. Its all about building relationships. Getting to know people. Letting others know you are interested in them and [...]

Why Blog?

A good question don’t you think? There are now so many blogs online that the world is filled with information overload. People are utilizing blogs to share their thoughts on everything you can possibly imagine. But, from a small business standpoint, why blog? If you run a small business or non-profit organization in Halifax, Nova [...]

The WOW Card

The business card. A simple piece of paper with some ink. Right? Well, the business card has a rather interesting history. According to Wikipedia, the first version of business cards appeared as the “Visiting Card” in 15th century China. Then the emergence of “Trade Cards” came about in 17th century England. These cards were used [...]