tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387213682011-10-12T03:13:15.503-06:00The Buzz4Business blog for small-to-medium-size business owners in the Southwest Minneapolis Metro area is a forum for exchanging knowledge, information and ideas. Whether your business is home-based, SO-HO, family owned and operated… a small franchise, B2C or B2B… you'll be able to discuss issues and ideas that are important to you and your business. This site, by local business for local business, is not a means to directly promote your business, services or products.DogMomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12005520544828743742noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38721368.post-18490835669315668142007-05-10T09:22:00.000-06:002007-05-10T09:33:23.042-06:00

This is an online seminar series produced by people at www.marketingprofs.com that I thought the audience for this blog might find interesting (or potentially benefit from). Cost is $99. the seminar is Friday, May 18 at 2:00 p.m. Central time.Click this link for more "general" information about MarketingProfs seminars: Learn more about how MarketingProfs seminars work...Here are details about

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According to Google Analytics, Buzz4Business gets anywhere from one to eight visitors a day. And, you view about one and a half posts before leaving.If you're not familiar already, and you have a Web site or blog of your own, you can sign up for a free Google Analytics account. It will track the traffic on your site for you and provides a tremendous amount of information, literally at your

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If you are anything like me, you absolutely despise getting menu after menu of computerized voice mail when you call a company’s help line, information line, etc. It drives me absolutely bonkers. If I wanted to talk to a machine, I would have gone online to see if I could solve my problem or find the answer.Ok. In reality, it doesn’t bother me enough to go to the extremes that Paul M. English has

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Just this week, the U.S. Small Business Administration and the U.S. Postal Service launched a new program called Delivering Success. Delivering Success is a series of video interviews with successful entrepreneurs who share the lessons they’ve learned about owning a small business. There are a number of videos posted on the web site. You can just watch the video for the topic that interests you.

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Q: I have a limited budget for print advertising. I heard that big ads get better response than smaller ads. Is it better to spend it on one big, colorful ad or to do smaller ads?A: Really, it depends on your objective for print advertising. Here are three scenarios...1. You're just starting your business and knew that you would have to advertise to let people know you're open for business. Is it

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I love the Internet. The way that something can be found or said about virtually (literally) any topic. While debating a topic for this blog... wondering what might be of interest to the yet unknown readers in the small-business universe I'm trying to connect with...Everybody I know seems to be in a financial crunch right now. Work life or home life; it makes no real difference when you're a

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A new annual report has been released about coupon distribution and redemption in the U.S. for 2006. CMS, a provider of logistics services for promotions, reports that more than 286 billion coupons were distributed last year, representing a value of more than $331 billion to consumers. Of these, just over 2.6 billion coupons were redeemed by 142 million consumers.The report states further that

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Lately, a number of the newsletters I regularly get have been focusing on handling complaints and dissatisfied customers. Is it really possible to change a dissatisfied customer's mind and increase their loyalty to your business, product or service?It depends, say the experts.It's in our nature to talk to our loyal customers and treat them as special. Because, after all, they are special and we

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At some point, virtually every small business owner needs to hire someone... a vendor, an employee, an accountant... when I think back on my 25-year career (35 years if you count jobs before graduating from college), I've been interviewed a lot more times than I've interviewed someone. From what I've read, this is pretty typical.It's not surprising, then, that we all feel a little bit of anxiety

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I just returned from a national conference for the newspaper industry. It was a mind-expanding experience to see and hear what my "colleagues" are doing across the country. The sessions were insightful and ran the gamut from big "Rah, Rah" sessions to discussion about the details of putting out a newspaper every day... or, in our case at Southwest, every week.It's not the kind of thing I would

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