Wednesday Wisdom: 6 ideas to grow your business
Submitted by Matthew Needham on 11 Comments
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Welcome to this weeks’ Wednesday Wisdom. This is where we share with you great content from around the web which will help you grow your business. This is the post that will help you sort the wheat from the chaff by sharing with you stuff you can action right now.
So, sit back, grab a coffee and get ready to grow your business, but most of all be prepared to take action.
Useful Resources
- First item up is an article by Paul Cooley who tells us about the recently added new feature to Four Square that offline business owners should be paying attention to. If you have a retail store, cafe or restaurant, you might want to think about this new feature to Four Square to generate increased revenues for your business.
- If you’re looking to increase sales and the value of your business then you want to be reading Dennis Sommer’s 5 Ways to Stimulate Sales Growth and Business Value
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- An intersting post from Allbusinesss.com on What Small Businesses Can Learn teaching college students
- Shama Kabani is the founder of The Marketing Zen Group. In this article she talks about giving customers what they wanted and scaling growth to meet demand.In this post on Entrepreneur.com she shares her secrets for growing your business organically.
- Sometimes to grow your business you have to walk away. Yael Gruer in his post on Copyblogger How to Build Your Business by Walking Away from the Sale explains the importance of getting your business to be a good fit for your customer. Taking the example of shoes, he explains the importance on matching the use the shoes will be put to with the customer.
- Finally Chris Ducker posted a discussion question on his site this week ‘ How Important Is Social Media When building a business‘. Skip straight down to the comments section, there’s some really useful stuff and interesting insights into how people are using social media to grow their businesses. Share your experiences too!
Friend of BRT and all round top guy, Ben Lumley is celebrating his ‘blog birthday’ this week. Please show him some support by visiting his site and saying hi.
If you have a bit longer (55mins and 22 seconds to be exact) check Ben’s recent lecture at Gylndwr University on Blogging your way to the top
So, that’s what we’ve found this week. What about you?
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Hi Matthew
You’ve introduced me to a few people whose blogs I have not yet visited. Will check them out and go say happy blog birthday to Ben also. Thanks for the roundup. I missed it on Twitter! Will RT so others can enjoy too.
Patricia Perth Australia
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Matthew, the best part of it all is that I don’t get yelled at when I’m reading business related blogs.
Boss will come in and be like – what are you doing – ohhh, just looking up ways to improve the company – oh, okay, lemme know if you find anything.
It’s Friday now, I guess I’ll take it eas..I mean, working hard – reading
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Hi Ben,
Good round-up as usual. I really need to come by on the weekends to work with your site when I have the time. I just thought I would stop by and see what was on tap and to say hello!
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Matthew Needham Reply:
November 22nd, 2010 at 10:04 pm
Hi Jefferey, thanks for stopping by…Unless of course you wanted Ben’s blog which is http://www.thebenlumley.com?!
Re part two, growing organically continues to get harder in relation to the web. The gem in this group was the Chris Drucker post but more importantly the comments, they are an absolute must read.
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Matthew Needham Reply:
November 22nd, 2010 at 10:02 pm
Hi Robin, thanks for stopping by. I agree Chris’ article generated some really great comments.
Hi Matthew:
Finally I made it to your blog. I apologies for my site not letting you in my blog. I figured out that server is not accepting Internet connection that well. It is slow at times and people are not able to get in.
Now servicing or buy another one is the battle going on, But I know my traffic started going down and I have to hurry up.
You got a beautiful blog post with contents here. Your five ways to awesome growth are cool and very effective.
I did get to read Ben’s blog today.
Have a enjoyable Sunday.
Fran A
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Matthew Needham Reply:
November 22nd, 2010 at 9:54 pm
Hi Fran, thanks for stopping by! I’ve had the same problem with my provider. Register for an account at Pingdom (it’s free) and you’ll get notifications whenever your server is down, which might help you.
I appreciate the comments and I’m glad you’ve found value in these posts. Glad you got to say hi to Ben!
Thanks again for visiting!
Matthew
Hi Matthew,
What I really like about these Wednesday Wisdom roundups is the wide variety of resources that you’ve filtered for us. Most of these links are new to me and are interesting to check out. There’s something for everyone!
Thanks,
Karen
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Matthew Needham Reply:
November 22nd, 2010 at 9:52 pm
Thanks karen, really appreciate the comments. Wednesday Wisdom is a great delight to write and it’s good to know that other people find the posts I ‘book mark’ useful. Have a great day!
Thanks for the great mention Matthew.
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