Starting and running a small business is a constant learning process. Every day brings new challenges and other circumstances that you need to become familiar with and learn how to handle.

The start-up period of a business is usually when the most questions arise.
As a new entrepreneur, you are constantly looking for guidance and insight
from other small business owners. However, the questions don’t stop when your business becomes established. As mentioned above, running a business is a never-ending learning curve.

We developed this page of our website as yet another way to help you with
various aspects of running your business. We are now proud to offer our Business Building eBooks.

These ebooks provide you with tips and procedures that you can use to learn new ways to make your business successful. We will continue to build this library with subjects that we have had to deal with and which other new entrepreneurs have asked for assistance with.

** NEW *** How to Set-Up & Start Your First Blog

Blog – it’s the latest buzz word on the Internet. It seems everyone is getting a blog to help display their businesses and/or share their ideas. However, it can be quite confusing … how to set one up; who to use to host it; etc. etc. In this ebook we hope to alleviate the some of the anxieties that you may be encountering when thinking… “should I have a blog and how the heck do I get one?”

We will cover the following, in easy to understand verbiage, to help you:

• Definition & Origin of the Blog,
• Why You Should Have a Blog,
• Types of Blogs,
• Blog Software & Services,
• Anatomy of a Typical Blog,
• Other Blog Terminology,
• Making a Blog Search Engine Friendly,
• Promoting Your Blog,
• RSS – What is it & How to Use it, and
• Blog Submission Sites & Other Blog Links

Easy to Understand and Implement Search Engine Optimization Techniques

Optimizing your website is one of the best things you can do to help increase your sites placement in the search engines. When designing your website, you should design for your target market. However, you need to optimize it for the search engines. This ebook covers the various techniques that are currently being used by designers and website owners to help climb in search engines standings. I have tried to explain them in easy to understand terms so the whole process will not seem so overwhelming.

Tips for Responding to Request for Proposals (RFPs) 

One of the most daunting and stressful tasks professionals in the service
industry face is how to correctly respond to Requests for Proposals
(RFP) or Requests for Quotations (RFQ) in such a way that there will
be a chance that you will actually get the contract. In this ebook
we take you through the steps of writing your proposal, from compiling
your information to refining it to what to do after you have sent it.

25 Cost Effective Marketing Strategies (Plus 10 Tips to Make Them
Successful) 

Marketing allows every business owner to increase their exposure and thus, increase their potential target market and with many marketing strategies being able to be done on the Internet, that market is more vast than anyone could have imagined 20 years ago.

In this ebook we look at marketing ideas that have been helpful to many
small business owners while not breaking their budgets as well as some
tips for making your next marketing campaign successful.

Step-by-Step: Hiring a Web Designer

Now that we have determined that you need a website for your business (or for personal reasons), it is time to find a web designer. I can hear you moaning… “how do I find a web designer?”. Well, that’s why we wrote this booklet. We know that it can be rather intimidating to find and evaluate a designer, especially if you are not overly familiar with the ins and outs of the Internet. This ebook will guide you through the steps to finding and contracting a web designer.

Tips for a Successful Trade Show

Small business owners, especially those who have never exhibited in a trade show before, can find preparing for a it to be a very scary and frustrating time. What do you take, how do you present it, how can you make the experience profitable in the long run, and tons of other questions? This ebook will provide you with tips and suggestions to help before, during and after the trade show.

Tips for Successful Networking

Networking is one of the easiest and most cost effective ways to build relationships with others that can help to grow your business. There are various forms of networking, both online and off, which can help to increase your visibility and thus increase your chances of gaining new clients.
This ebook will provide you with tips and suggestions to help make your networking experiences a great success!

Every one of us has had one of those days when we feel like tossing (to put it nicely) our computers out the window. From slow programs to a complete freeze-up, we each have had issues with our computers that can be preventable by being cautious and performing a little computer maintenance. Most of these issues are usually not all that dangerous but they need to be dealt with in order to keep our computers running smoothly and avoid problems escalating.

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