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February 13, 2017
4 Brilliantly Innovative Ideas to Increase Online Sales
Whether you are a small home-based business or an e-Commerce giant, your aim is to increase online sales. Why? This is because sales are the lifeblood of a business. How will you earn profits when you have no sales? The problem is that there is tough competition in the market, which means that you have […]
Bad Reviews for Yelp
Yelp Receives Bad Reviews for 2017 Guidance Shares of Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP) were down 13.1% in afternoon trading on Friday and are slightly down in early morning trading today. Why the 1-Star review for the local business review specialist? They released strong fourth-quarter 2016 results but followed with disappointing guidance. Yelp co-founder and CEO, […]
February 10, 2017
Why Spammers Never Prosper
Spammers Never Prosper Why: Do you like spam? No. So why would you send spam? Don’t. How: Now that we have armed you with the amazing tool, LinkedIn, think of it as the world’s first hammer—the worst thing you can do is believe that everything is a nail. As you have seen, most of this […]
How Data Breach Affected the Tech World in 2016
Some of the largest data breaches in history were recorded in 2015 in the form of cyber-crimes. These occurrences saw major corporations enhance their fight against identity theft and hackers in 2016. However, 2016 came up with some breaches that no one could ever imagine. This article focuses on how data breach affected the tech […]
3 Entrepreneurial Lessons Learned from the Rise of Amazon
In the year 1994, the American entrepreneur, Jeff Bezos, started Amazon as a small online bookstore. Over the last 20 years, Bezos and his team grew Amazon from the bookstore inception to one of the largest ecommerce businesses in the world generating $136 billion in revenue last year alone. Amazon has become a template for […]
Selling Stuff Over Social Media: 5 Ideas to Drive in Massive Sales
Sales funnel over social media is truly fickle as it requires constant innovation and unprecedented marketing acumen. Be it refurbishing the existing sales hierarchy or encouraging a greater number of visitors to turn into customers, selling stuff over social media isn’t as straightforward as it seems— courtesy the cut-throat competition. In this post, we will […]
February 9, 2017
How To: Posting-It-Forward
Why: Posting-It-Forward will make you and others feel better. People will want to help you. How: You have heard the expression pay it forward: performing good deeds without expecting something in return. LinkedIn makes it easy to praise someone digitally. Make a daily habit of spending a minimum of three minutes to do any of […]
10 Facebook Marketing Epiphanies for 2017
Facebook marketing will undergo a metamorphosis in 2017 and we can’t stop talking about our expectations. Seeing the revolutionary trends in 2016, we are more than hopeful about Facebook as the newest marketing fab. While social media marketing is going to get its share of elixirs, social commerce will surely shoot up in stature— with […]
iPhone 8 Rumors
New iPhone 8 May Not Have a Home Button First you take away our headphone jacks, and now you take away our home button? According to a report by Fast Company, the new 10th anniversary iPhone is going to have a massive overhaul on its design, removing not only the home button, but all physical […]
Your Website Might be Canadian, Even if You Don’t Know It
If you run an online retail store, you probably just assume that your website is run on a US-based platform. In many cases, you might be right. But not if you run on Shopify. As a Canadian, I am always proud of home-grown success stories. But even most Canadians, not being involved in online business, […]
