Smart Marketing Resources for Small & Start Up Businesses
In December, I wrote a guest post titled, “Mobile Marketing Tips for Small Businesses.” In short, it was about simple ways to make your website mobile friendly in a mobile world. In this post, I thought I would do the reverse and review, as a blogger/business owner, a few of my favorite apps. I often [...]
“By the year 2014, mobile internet should take over desktop internet usage,” according to Tag Microsoft. With the world going mobile, not only do you have to worry about how your site renders on Internet browsers, you also need to ensure your site renders properly on mobile browsers. With so many new cell phones hitting [...]
If you haven’t heard the news, this just in: mobile is huge. In fact by 2015, the research firm IDC predicts that the number of U.S. mobile internet users will surpass their wired counterparts by 2015. What this means is simple…within a few years, mobile devices in the U.S. will become the preferred method to [...]
Considering we’re in the middle of tablet fever with everyone from Samsung to Barnes & Noble trying to cash in, it’s hard to imagine that the iPad’s original release was generally met with the question, ”But what the hell are we supposed to do with this?” Much as Apple predicted, entrepreneurs and independent software innovation [...]
Are you a small business owner overwhelmed by the thought of broadening your web presence? Facebook pages, official websites, twitter accounts, blogs… yikes. Let’s say you are one of those social media/tech savvy businesses who have been early adopters of all the latest online platforms and marketing tools available to you, do you have a [...]
Recently, I witnessed innovative technology and business acumen being put to use in a rather peculiar environment: the Brooklyn Flea Market. Browsing the hundreds of vendor tents filled with antique furniture, handcrafted art and jewelry, and other unique treasures, I kept noticing signs signifying a handful of vendor’s acceptance of credit cards. I thought this [...]
By receiving a patent on the slogan, “There’s an app for that” in 2010, Apple all but cemented the enormous potential for the mobile market. Imagine having to explain to your kids that in the 1990’s, all cell phones did was make phone calls? Weird. The transformation from mobile phones only being able to make [...]
