In these cold winter days we often find that refocusing on accomplishing your business goals can be a great way to keep your brain churning even when all you might want to do is cozy up by the fire.
This week is all about giving you real practical guides to exactly how to improve and grow your business. For those of our readers who are in an eternally tropical climate, these articles can help keep your business ventures from getting frozen in progress.
Build Your Blog
It doesn’t matter what kind of business you have or what kind of entrepreneur you are, it’s been proven over and over again that a blog will strengthen you brand, improve your search engine rankings, drive traffic, and increase conversions. So what are you waiting for? Huffington Post offers these 9 Tips for Making Your Blog Better in 2015.
Get Ready to Optimize!
Optimizing your website may sound like a vague and ominous task, but it doesn’t have to be if you are prepared. Just like anything else you do as an entrepreneur, proper optimization requires a little research, a little hard work, and a little help from someone who has more know-how. Check out this Geektime piece with a comprehensive 4-Step Conversion Optimization Plan.
Watch and Learn
The popular TV series Shark Tank has opened a window onto the art of pitching your business to potential investors. In addition to learning from other entrepreneurs’ successes and failures, here are the top 5 things you can learn from watching Shark Tank from Inc.
- Spend a lot of time on your presentation
- Have more than one presentation prepared depending on your audience
- Set realistic financial goals
- Be able to sum up your business in 10 words or less
- Be able to prove that your business is practical
The Best Way to Bootstrap
Running a business with little capital is no easy task, but it is doable if you approach it the right way. There’s no shortage of stories of someone who made it big despite starting very very small, so with a few words of wisdom Entrepreneur offers 6 bootstrapping tips from those who found success.
What are some practical or functional changes that you learned which made a big difference for your business? Tell us in the comments!
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