I am a big believer in continuing education, whether you take classes at a local college, attend conferences/lectures/trade shows, read books and blogs or subscribe to newsletters and magazines. You need to learn to earn….
More on Website Success and Return on Investment
We built a website a few years ago for a firm that sells an online service. “How many of these do you want to sell?” I asked. “50,000” was our customer’s reply. I explained that with a conversion rate of anywhere from less than 1% to, possibly 3-5% that he was going to have to generate significant traffic to his site to meet his goals.
He decided to focus primarily on cold calling!
“Good luck with that.”
Online Productivity Tools for the Small Business
The Open Forum has a great post today on online productivity tools for small business: creating ToDo lists, note taking, information & news gathering and document sharing. I would also like to recommend Basecamp.