With the rapid down fall of world economy and dot-com companies in recent years many brick-and-mortar companies and new start-ups ask themselves: To Be Online or Not to Be Online?
Ethics Foundations for Business
With all the recent headlines about company misconduct and ethics violations has come a significant, and long overdue, increase in the consideration of ethics among businesses. As a result of the recent bad press about lawsuits against companies’ “behaving badly”, there has been a rapid, almost frantic scramble among many large corporations to set themselves apart from the “wrong-doers” in the business world. Companies have quickly penned ethics codes, instituted ethics compliance monitoring programs, or have had high-level corporate officers visibly touting their company’s “new and improved” ethics focus in the hope of regaining consumer confidence in a devastated economy. And with good reason: consumers are increasingly wary of all business interactions, to the detriment of all, even the most upright of enterprises.
How to Fast Track Your Business to Success
We all want overnight success, yet I often see sites languishing with low traffic, low sales and low profits for years.
The Increasing Power of Publicity and How it Can Benefit Your Business.
The call came into my office and the voice on the other end was very energetic, almost giddy: “I have finalized my marketing budget and need your help launching an advertising campaign for my new product,” he breathed. “Congratulations,” I replied, “but before we implement an ad campaign, I want to make sure you have explored potential PUBLICITY opportunities that could generate some cost-efficient media exposure first.” Then, silence. “I never thought about that,” he sighed. “Frankly, I don’t know much about it.”
Ideas V a framework for e-business Success
At its core, e-business is a simple proposition. Businesses interact with customers through various channels such as retail stores, phone, print, television, instant messaging and ATMs. Leveraging interactive channels like the Web can drive down costs, expand markets and create new revenue opportunities. For businesses that have mastered the interactive channel, there is plenty of good news.
Technology & Your Business: A Beneficial Relationship
As a home-based business owner, you probably don’t have a high-priced IT manager on staff to fill you in on which technologies could help boost your efficiency and success. You may also lack the confidence to incorporate new technology into your home office, particularly if that technology is unfamiliar.
Business Report Writing Tips
Let’s assume that you have to write a document for work or study. Your instructions consist of the title that you are to use and nothing else. Could you — with only the title as a guide — write a suitable document?
Have You Fallen Victim to These Home Business Myths?
In the quest for a home based business, many people have been “burned” by dubious opportunities and have thus developed an intense skepticism that can hinder, rather than help, their goal of working from home.
Blogging for Business
There’s something going on out there called Blogging and if you haven’t looked at it as a potential marketing tool for your business, now’s the time. Blogging is the practice of writing personalized, heartfelt (to varying degrees) content and publishing it on the Internet for the world to read.
Online Activists’ Lessons For Online Business
Over a 48-hour period, the online political activist site MoveOn.org, ran a groundbreaking online Democratic primary that netted 317,647 votes — far more than actual turnout in many states’ actual Presidential primaries.