Marketing You and Your Service

Here are some good thoughts and additional reading suggestions about marketing you and your service.

Your Success Is Our Success

Toni
TelecommutingPro

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Marketing Your Service-Based Small Business

If your small business is service-oriented, expertise is your product. It’s your value proposition and what sets you apart from your competitors. The better you market your expertise, the better you’ll grow your business.

Find Out More About Your Website Visitors

Microsoft Live Small Business Office has created new ways to generate reports to track trends of the visitors to your website and use that information to attract additional visitors.

This is powerful stuff, check it out.

Your Success Is Our Success

Toni
TelecommutingPro

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How to learn even more about your Web site visitors

Have you noticed that we revamped the Reports area in Office Live Small Business? If not, log into your account and click Reports when you get a chance. We’ve added new features that may help you attract more site visitors and turn them into customers. For instance, now you can follow day-to-day trends in your Web site traffic and see results of your keyword advertising campaigns at the same time. Those are great insights to have when you’re trying to make marketing decisions.

Data Security A Must For Small Businesses

Security should be a priority for a small business. I just went through a 'crash and burn' event with my computer. I had just purchased an external hard drive back-up system and programmed it to back-up every day. When my computer was finally fixed I downloaded all my informtion back into my computer and have not mssed a beat since. I shiver at the thought of loosing all my data. You should, too. Safe guarding that same data against someone else is necessary, too. Just because you run a small shop that serves a local market doesn't mean your data is unimportant to someone. Customer data, in particular, is always valuable.

Your Success Is Our Success

Toni

TelecommutingPro.com



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25 Percent Of Small Business Owners Are Out Of Their Minds



Backing up your data can be an inexpensive insurance that, even with a computer malfunction, your data is not lost and you can continue running it. Read about this a protecting your data.

4 Great Ways To Use Google to Grow Your Business

Google is more than a search engine. There are many products/services you can use to assist you in managing and promoting your business. Go to www.google.com and sign up for your own account. You will uncover many business tactics that are being used by the larger companies and are now available for you, the small business owner.

It does not matter what your work at home work option you are in or if you run a small business these features will benefit you.

Your Success Is Our Success.

Toni
TelecommutingPro provides access to other business resources.

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Which Google Products Should a Small Business Use?

No longer just a search engine, Google has grown rapidly in recent years into a company that now offers a variety of tools and services, many of which are aimed squarely at small business owners. Some of Google's most compelling services are free, making them even more tempting to small business owners on a tight budget.