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Tag: Small Business or Entrepreneur

  • Five Ways To Amp Up Your Facebook Presence

    There are close to 800,000,000 individuals and businesses on Facebook. Are you? Does your business have a Facebook presence and are you making the best use of your presence on there? If, for some reason you haven’t jumped into the Facebook fray, you’re missing out because chances are your competition is making their business presence…

  • Use your customers as your ‘brand ambassadors’

    To make money in your business you need to convert leads and bring in sales. That’s the bottom line, right? Well, how do you get those leads and convert them into sales? Branding is one of the best ways. You should tap into current satisfied clients to help spread the word about your brand. Developing…

  • What is Social Media ROI and How Do You Measure It?

    How do you measure your return on investment (ROI) with your social media efforts? It’s not as simple as analyzing the Facebook weekly reports, the number of  Twitter followers your company has or the number of connections you’ve made on LinkedIn. ROI means many things to many entrepreneurs who are looking for ways to determine…

  • ‘Tis the season for employee bonuses

    You’re a member of Tradesource and know there are ways you can reward your employees through the use of your barter dollars. Here are a few ways in which you can use the trade dollars you’ve accumulated all year as a way to reward your employees for their loyalty and great work throughout the year.…

  • Last minute Tradesource Holiday Barter Tradeshow checklist

    By now, we hope you’ve ordered your stickers for the Tradesource Holiday Barter Show. Not only is it a great place to get your Christmas gift shopping, employee bonus and incentive items purchased, it is a great way to meet and greet potential new clients for the following year. When you’re at the Tradesource Holiday…

  • Tradesource Holiday Event Makes Gift Giving A Breeze

    The holidays are drawing near and with budgets still being stretched to the limit for many people, it’s not always easy to plan for the gifts you need to purchase for friends, family and colleagues. Shoppers are looking to buy local and patronize local merchants and work with Tradesource partners, and for the local economy…

  • What is Twitter Doing For Your Business?

    Chances are you’re signed up for Twitter and you use it occasionally but you wonder if it’s truly doing anything to help you and your business. Is there just too much noise on Twitter to make a difference? Are the masses really reading your tweets? For the longest time I really didn’t get the point of Twitter. I…

  • Tradesource Member Profile: Nancy D. Breiman, Arbonne Consultant

    Nancy D. Breiman, a Tradesource member for almost one year, is an independent Consultant with Arbonne. She has been involved with Arbonne since 2006 when she became a loyal and by her own words, an avid user, of their “fantastic Re9 Anti-aging skin products.” She realized the how wonderful the products were and began to…

  • Propel your business influence: Write a book

    What’s the quickest way to set yourself apart from the competition? How can you easily propel your status from simply business owner to expert? Write a book. If you notice business owners who operate a business similar to yours surpassing you in speaking engagements and sheer number of clients, it could be because they’ve written…

  • How to effectively use trade to grow your business

    Did you know that if you use trade effectively that you can propel your business to even higher levels of success? If you effectively manage your trade transactions you’ll find you can draw in more customers, make more sales, use your trade dollars to purchase goods and services for your business and free up cash…