Tag: Small Business

The Blue Ocean Strategy is a business theory and a book by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne that challenges companies to break out of the "red ocean" of fierce competition and create their own "blue ocean" of uncontested market space. Here's a breakdown of what this strategy entails and whether it's something your small business should consider.

As a small business owner, maximizing return on investment (ROI) is essential to the long-term success of your business. One strategy that can help achieve this goal is forming strategic alliances with other businesses. Strategic alliances are mutually beneficial partnerships between two or more businesses that work together to achieve common goals.

Starting a small business is always going to be a tough venture. No matter what industry you want to enter, there are at least a hundred other companies doing something similar to yours. The market is already saturated with ads and marketing campaigns, but you still need to find a way to cut through all the noise. Guerrilla marketing is an excellent way to implement a marketing strategy that is a fraction of the cost of a regular strategy. Below, we discuss what guerrilla marketing is, the components of a successful guerrilla marketing campaign, and the types of guerrilla marketing that work the best.

They are an affectionate bunch - by accident. It's not how they intended to be and it certainly is not politically correct to hug your colleagues particularly in this era of 'harassment' claims, but someone had to do it, and they did it right.

Wouldn’t it be nice to live in a world of endless PTO, stunning vacation destinations, and perfect work-life balance? Unfortunately for most small business or startups, this is the stuff of dreams. They are often more focused on “surviving” than “thriving”.

When the focus is on “surviving”, the more creative aspects of a business such as content marketing can be stifled. Keeping up with emerging technologies and societal trends and consistently meeting the customer’s ever-changing needs is exhausting. To make it a little easier, we broke it down for you.

Are you tired of posting blogs on your business’s website and not receiving hits? Sick of sending newsletters and not getting high open rates? It is stressful to put your heart and soul into something you write and have no one read it. There is one thing you should always think about before writing - everything you write must be written with a purpose.

I once heard the analogy that starting a business is like solving a Rubik’s cube and it knocked me off my feet with its accuracy. As the words rolled off the strangers tongue in front of me, I was immediately thrown back to a time where I was working in an overcrowded office/house alongside twelve other dedicated twenty-year-old somethings trying to build nothing into something incredible.

One of the biggest myths small businesses owners believe to be true is that press releases are only successful for large businesses. You do not have to have to have a full public relations department or be a huge corporation to attract media attention. Whether your small business is interested in building brand awareness, online presence, or SEO, a press release is a cost-effective way to inform people about your company news.