Follow this guide to calculate how much to pay yourself.
You’re the business owner and you set the budget, so the size of your paycheck is entirely up to you. But while the freedom of setting your own salary sounds great in theory, in practice most business owners find it a tough call. Should you pay yourself what you need to cover expenses? What your business can afford? The salary you...
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One of the first steps in starting your own online business is making a website. This website is your place of business and must be treated as such. Your potential customers will visit your site and decide within seconds if they will stay or go. Turning these quick browsers into buyers is one of the major obstacles in building your new business.
Below are ten things you can do to help...
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First Impressions
First impressions are everything. Lets say two individuals are applying for the same position. One is dressed in business casual. The other in an unkempt dirty outfit. Both applicants are equally qualified. The one in the business outfit takes the job all because of presentation. The same applies with your web page. Just as the interviewer had probably instantly picked...
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Everyone who has even been a part of the business world will accept that fact that running a business is not at all any easy task. It gets more difficult for a newbie or for someone who is not properly educated about the tricks and techniques of initiating and running a business successfully. Investing in business is risky but at the same time it if works out, it is a lucrative income. This is...
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While millions of people share the dream of working from home, very few understand its difficulties. From online distractions to technical malfunctions, online entrepreneurs and freelancers face thousands of potential setbacks, each one threatening a decline in income or a pause in cash flow. We’re all familiar with this problem.
Yet the problem doesn’t affect every designer and...
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The pros and cons of an online tool that focuses on managing the sales pipeline.
The economic downturn has prompted many business owners to look for more efficient ways to stay connected to customers. While most customer-relationship management (CRM) software can be too complex and costly for small businesses, a relatively new entrant on the market has the potential to be a Swiss Army knife for...
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For a company to successfully tap into a new market it requires a bit of research and localised content, meaning different websites for different countries.
In order for website to reach its full potential in a foreign market a few steps are necessary: navigation strategy, color of the website, the right tools for the right website, suitable images, professional translation of the website,...
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Today, we’ll continue on our previous topic on when it’s time to rebuild the existing website.
Website Performance Testing
A simple way to test the site performance is to use Firebug web development tool and its integrated plugin YSlow. YSlow analyses the web page and suggest the possible improvement based on the general. The page will...
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GigaOm Net:Work Conference: Enterprises that cater to the needs of mobile workers can expect greater productivity.
The mobile revolution has caused so much agitation in the workplace that the old rules are breaking down.
At the GigaOm Net:Work Conference in San Francisco on Thursday, Evan Kaplan, President and CEO of iPass, an enterprise mobile services provider, proposed a new set of rules, an...
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The world is changing every day presenting us new and fresh ideas, approaches and tools to use. There are a lot of great features that found their places on the modern websites. Have you implemented them on your website already? Or you don’t need any of those? You like your website the way it is but somehow it doesn’t give you any revenue.
It’s important to know the right moment for...
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