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Trademark Expo Set For May in Virginia

admin — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:07:24 +0000

Deadline for Trademark Expo Applications Extended to February 15, 2009

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (a division of the U.S. Department of Commerce) will hold its annual Trademark Expo this May 8-9 at the agency’s headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. The 2008 Expo attracted 7,000 people and received wide media coverage. This year’s two day event will focus again on educating the public about the value and important role trademarks play in our society and the global marketplace. It will feature themed displays, company booths, costumed characters interactive exhibits and trademark related seminars for attendees. An intensified effort will be made this year to attract school children to the event.

for details visit http://www.uspto.gov/

Think International Trade

admin — Tue, 22 May 2012 06:08:59 +0000

From the Journal of Commerce online comes this story about small business optimism going forward. Those involved in some form of export tend to be even more confident in an economic recovery. Keep in mind that the Small Business Development Center is teaming up again with Enterprise Florida, the U.S. Commercial Service and the Clay County Chamber to present an International Trade Certificate Program in Clay County starting February 26. Get more information here.

Trade boosts optimism of small business: UPS survey

A large majority of small-business owners remain optimistic about their company’s financial future despite the current economic crisis, according to two UPS surveys, particularly among those companies that engage in international trade.

In the first UPS Business Monitor United States, conducted between September and October, 2008, 91 percent of small-business owners or managers said they expected their company to be in the same or better financial shape in a year than it was at that time. In a follow-up survey in mid-December, 86 percent of small-businesses owners responded positively to the same question.Respondents did not project a speedy economic recovery.

In the first survey, 47 percent said they believed that the U.S. economy would begin to improve in 2010 or later. In the December survey, that number climbed to 67 percent. Small-business owners who engaged in international trade were more likely to project optimism. In the first survey, 56 percent of such small-business owners said they expected their company to be in a better economic position in one year, compared with 41 percent of companies that did not trade. In the second survey, 62 percent of small-businesses owners who traded internationally expressed optimism compared to 39 percent of non-traders.However, 73 percent of respondents in the survey do not engage in international trade, nor plan to do so. Unfamiliarity with global markets, language barriers and apprehension about preparing customs and other documents were among the main reasons why they aren’t trading across borders.

Drop Shipping Beginner Intermediate Advanced

admin — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:07:16 +0000

Writen by Gary Granai

Drop shipping is neither a sport nor a game. It is a business. And in business, customers neither want to deal with beginners nor intermediates.

Customers want advanced service, advanced communications and advanced reliability. Simply stated they want to deal with someone in the advanced class.

When you start your drop shipping business it is like jumping into the middle of the ocean. If you are a beginner, you will simply drown. If you are intermediate enough to stay on the surface, your competitors will try to put you under. And you will be torn apart from below by the sharks out there that prey on the newcomer. It is not the time to start learning how to survive. You must be advanced before you jump into drop shipping.

More than 95% of the drop shipping businesses fail within the first year. There are many reasons. But generally it can be said that they did not have enough experience to understand how tough business really is.

Business is a constant war. You will be fighting competition for your market share. You will be fight competition for search engine position. You will be fighting to survive every day and it will never stop.

You will have to be set up to survive the fight. You have to start your drop shipping business in the advanced mode.

How do you jump from business level beginner to business level advanced? You do a business plan!

A properly written business plan is more than a writing exercise that you put in a soon forgotten book.

First it is a beginners training manual. In writing your business plan, you are forced to think through the details of what you must do to compete in the market.

For example, it will make you think about what is your unique selling proposition. Remember that tens of thousands of other drop shippers like you may be advertising the same products as you. You have to create yourself some unique position in the market to outsell them..

Second it is a test procedure that takes you from beginner’s status to intermediate status. If you work up a proper financial analysis, you will actually confirm what your costs will be and what you will get for the money that you pay.

Also test to see if the drop shipper really delivers. Order something and check what happens. Just consider the disaster if set up your entire business around a drop shipper and find that the supplier is unreliable.

Third it is a procedure manual that you will follow when you run your business. It should contain your tutorials, source materials and the miscellany you found important when doing your research. It is your reference book. It is your planning and work procedure manual.

As soon as you start to work your plan, you are in the intermediate mode. That means as soon as you start spending money. Every spend should be in accordance with your plan.

You have to be planned to keep control of your budget. You will run into a lot of sharks just looking to separate you from your money with promises of everything that you really know is not possible but will likely buy if you are not working your plan. If you are not careful you will be soon over budget and wasting money that you could better use on something else.

It is in this mode that you get your web site finished and on line under your company name. And it is in this mode that you start testing it on friends.

When you think that it is ready, it is time for the final exam. Have several friends, family and anyone else that you can find make test orders from your site. Have them make comments on your site.

This is a real time test run of your business. You will find where the holes are. Go back, rework your plan and test it again. Test until your helpers and you are satisfied. You will not believe how trying this experience is. Endure it. It can mean the difference between success and failure.

Once you think that there is nothing more to be gained in testing, you are advanced enough to go live. You should now be prepared to make a good first impression on your visitors and start making sales. Yes, you will make changes, but you will have a chance to survive.

Think advanced, start advanced and be advanced.

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True Web Searching Tools For Business Quotturfquot

admin — Mon, 21 May 2012 06:07:13 +0000

Writen by Claude Jollet

Searching for specific business related information on the Web, using specialized high precision searching tools, can “Turn Up Real Finds” (TURF)! But, where do you find the business specific tools you need? How can you tell if you are getting the most that can be expected from the Web? Here is how I solved the problem.

An Expanding Universe Of Information

There are more than 56 million Web sites out there, and the number is growing every day. This means billions of Web pages and trillions of words. The WWW is fast becoming a universe.

Now, every Web surfer will search the Web for something, often many times per day. Some will spend hours searching and often end up not quite finding what they were looking for.

In spite of the increasing power of the search engines, the keyword expressions we use (one to three words, on average) only manage to scratch the surface of what is available out there on the Web. The amount of information we get back is often overwhelming, and only vaguely relevant. When we try to refine our search … we often find that we have drifted away from our goal. This situation is annoying, when not downright frustrating.

Information Is Vital To Business

You cannot run a business, any size of business, with search tools and methods that give such uncertain results.

From brainstorming ideas, to identifying the competition and investigating legal issues, you need fast, reliable access to verifiable information you can count on.

Obviously, you need more than whatever you can extract from general purpose search engines.

Tools To Mine The Web

You and your business need a web searching tool set designed specifically to find the business information you need in a timely, effective, and efficient manner.

The good news is that these specialized search tools already exist. Yes, they are all available on the Web. New ones even pop up almost every week! Most of them are freely accessible too!

The bad news is that there are hundreds of them … and they are not all equally reliable or easy to use!

Sure, you can find them yourself … given time and determination. You can test, and learn how to use each one, personally. During this time, you will be learning a lot about Web searching … and about the depth of your resolve!

Meanwhile, this self-imposed apprenticeship will not let you attend to business as you should.

I let the experts spend their time and energy on finding and testing Web searching tools. They have their own reasons for doing that kind of work. I am not in the business of finding and testing tools. Besides, I do not have the expertise, nor the time. By supplying me with fully tested and approved Web searching tools for my business, they win my respect and patronage.

I win precious time, which I spend taking full advantage of the information gems I discover using their best Web searching tools. My business is well fed with the highly focused, and reliable information it requires to grow safely.

That’s what I call taking care of business. I can truly mind my own business, because the Web searching tool set I use can definitely “TURF”!

Claude Jollet is a former planning advisor to major industrial and commercial clients. He specialized in weather related operational planning issues. He holds a bachelor’s degree in applied computer science, specializing in business process analysis and automation. Mr. Jollet now devotes all his free time to the promotion of entrepreneurship on the Web. He reaches his following with his Web site http://www.top-web-entrepreneurs-plan-it.com

I Want to Make Money Online. How Do I Get Started?

admin — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:08:29 +0000

You have taken the first step by making the positive decision to become an online entrepreneur. There is a lot of work ahead just as there is in developing any business, although, a lot of this can be out sourced and it is worth it because the rewards can be tremendous when an online business is successful.

Hopefully this article will give you a framework for what needs to be done to make money online and get your internet business up and running. But, one thing that I want to stress from the outset is that a real internet business is not some get rich quick scheme and it will take time before you see a real return on your investment. If you are not a patient person then this is probably not the best business model for you to follow, but if you are patient then there is the potential to make lots of money.

Getting a business started online requires some of the same business principles that need to be adopted in a traditional business for it to be successful.

1. A niche Market of People that require a product or service.
2. A Product or service That Fills Their Need
3. An outlet Where They Can Find the Product or Service (Your Website)
4. A Way of Letting That Market Know You Have The Product
5. An Offer
6. A Way to Deliver the Product
7. A Way For Your To Get Paid.

Let’s go through these one by one:

1. A Market of People Interested In Buying Something.
You could have the best product or idea in the world, but if nobody in the marketplace has a need for it right now then it will be very difficult for you to make money from a website and your online business will probably fail without a significant marketing budget. You don’t want to have to create interest in your product. That is an uphill battle as people don’t really like to be sold to or convinced of anything. You want to simply want to find the customers who are already looking for a product or a solution and be there for them at the right place and the right time.

One of the most difficult things for most people who want to set up an online business is to think of a money making idea for their business, or to identify the market that they want to focus on. Or some people go to the opposite end of the spectrum and decide that they want to offer to much and almost find themselves in a position where they are competing with the likes of Amazon (not a good idea)! To find the best market you need to look at several factors: What is popular? What are people buying these days? Do any of those things stick out as a market you might want to be involved in? Once you have identified some markets that interest you, try to think of new product that you could introduce and sell on-line or alternative look for other peoples products to sell on their behalf (this is known as affiliate marketing). Golf is a popular sport with millions of people and has a high search demand on the internet. Can you see yourself selling a downloadable guide to a better gold swing? Have you battled and beaten depression or any other emotional problem? Could you see yourself giving an online instructional course on how others can do the same? Weight loss is always popular, can you see yourself selling a guide to that? Baby toys are also popular, can you see yourself selling those? Think of things you, your friends and family already need, enjoy and pay money for. These may give you idea for your first website niche which will help you to make money online.

Think about what you can do to help people fulfill their needs and wants. Use a research tool like Wordtracker or Keyword Discovery, or recruit a specialist to help you identify what people are actually interested in and are currently searching for in large numbers on the internet. Finally, type the main keywords that relate to that product into Google and check out the competition. Don’t worry if you find some, it’s actually better to have some competition because it helps to confirm that there is a market for your proposed offering. Once you’ve found a market that meets all these criteria you’ve found a healthy market where you can make money with your website.

2. Find a Product That Fills the Need.
Just because you need a product to sell doesn’t necessarily mean that you must create one. Some people make a good living selling other people’s products on the internet and earning a percentage of the sale. You can promote other peoples’ information products and receive high commissions from a website called Clickbank.com or you can find a good drop shipper and sell almost any physical product you can imagine and they will dispatch it for you, this means that you do not need to hold any stock.

Of course, you will always have more unique business opportunities with your own product. Here’s one easy way to create an information product in no time at all.

Take a look at Yahoo Answers and see if you can find questions that people are asking over and over again. Is there some particular piece of information that the market really needs right now and it isn’t being supplied? Maybe it’s for example, how to get gum out of your hair, or how to make money from foreclosures. Either of these subjects could become the basis for an information product like an ebook, which people can buy and download from your website. You can write it yourself if you know the answer or you could source it and have someone write the book for you. Convert the document to PDF and you’ve got an information product that the market potential needs. Later you can learn how to convert your written content into an audio or video product that people will pay even higher prices for.

3. Make Money from a Website.

It’s not impossible, but it’s difficult to make money online without a website. If you don’t know how to code Html and build a search engine friendly website then you can hire someone like High Impact who does to build one for you. Having a website means you’ll need to go out and purchase a domain name and hosting as well.

What should be on your website?

If you are selling physical products be sure to prominently feature pictures of your products. The pictures often sell themselves and improve the sales conversion significantly. If it’s an information product you’re selling you will want to get yourself some slick sales copy. This means text on your site that get’s the visitor in the buying mood. A sales letter is the tool of choice to encourage your web visitors to click on the “Buy Now” button. You can find sales letter templates online for a descent price to get you started. A promotional video might be even more effective if used in conjunction with the sales letter, if it looks and sounds professional it can encourage people to spend more time on your website and potentially by your product if demonstrated well .

4. A Way of Letting That Market Know You Have The Product
This is science of getting visitors (traffic) to your website. There are many ways to do this, but the trick is not to be overwhelmed with all the different ways. You can try and learn them yourself, however, for your new venture it is probably best to work with an expert and learn from them. The main ways to gain website traffic are: Search Engine Optimization, Pay-Per-Click Advertizing, Blogging/Pinging or Joint Ventures. There are many ebooks and articles like this one available online that can teach you these skills and many of them are free. Seek them out and start reading, learning and applying.

5. An Offer
You’ll need to develop a clear offer that you will make to your web visitors. This simply means developing a clear way to describe what your product is and how much it will cost your web visitor to buy it. See what kind of pricing strategy your competition is using and make yours better, with an improved price point, more features, added value or special offers.

6. A Way For you To Deliver the Product
This will depend on whether your product is digital or physical and also whether you are promoting your own product or if you are an affiliate marketer. Drop shipping is one method that can take the headache of delivery out of your hands. If you are selling digital products (downloadable video or ebook) you can simply configure your Paypal account to send the customer to a custom page where the product is available for download. To prevent buyers who haven’t paid from finding your download page you might consider using a product called DL Guard or changing the name of the download file frequently.

7. A Way For Your To Get Paid.
Paypal is a wonderful way for you to get paid especially when selling digital or physical products. Upgrade to a “Merchant’s Account” so that your customers can pay without having a Paypal account of their own. You will need to create a “Buy Now” Button for whatever product you’re selling.

Finally, being able to make money online requires dedication, it takes some people years to perfect, others a lot less. The most important thing to remember is to get started, ever day that goes past is a potentially lost sale! This article only includes the basic building blocks and if you want to get started quickly and effectively then don’t waste time and start working with a professional who has the knowledge that you don’t. If you don’t have the budget to work with a professional then keep taking action, learning and tweaking your methods until your internet business works. If you get stuck then contact us for assistance, if not, then good luck and much success!

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Online Degree Programs

admin — Sun, 20 May 2012 11:00:29 +0000

As you are well aware of the fact that nowadays everyone wants to study in the best universities around the world. However, as they can’t afford the expenditures, so they have to kill their wishes and have to complete the studies from their own country. But now, the internet has become so vast that the word “impossible” is almost ended.

Now, due to the internet while sitting at your own home you can study whatever you want from your desired university of any country. There are many popular universities present around the world. Some of them are offering a number of online degrees; you can easily select one of them. The most preferred programs that are selected are the “information technology management” and “cfa exam prep.”

Master in information technology management is mostly preferred by the students who have done IT students and the business professionals. Through this program, they can easily combine their managerial skills with the technical acumen to get the IT leadership role. Apart from this, the program acts as a bridge through which you can easily combine the business qualities with the IT skills and can progress a lot in your life.

At the some universities, this program is taught in such a way that it totally concentrates on the emerging of the technologies and apart from this; they enhance your knowledge regarding the projects, budget management, ethics, leadership and training. All these things will help you in enhancing your career.

Such universities have also introduced M.S. in security analysis and Portfolio Management (MSAPM). In this program, you are taught about the assessment of the investments, security analysis and the management of the portfolio. All these things are quite important to those people who want to gain a high ranked job in this field.

The universities have designed the program in such a way that it fulfills all the three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program. Apart from this, the program is also taught by the people who have the designation in the CFA. This program will help the people who want to learn the code of ethics and standards. Through this program, they will gain the valuable assets that help them gain the advance career opportunities.

So, if you really want to learn something through which you can go far ahead in your life you can select one of these online programs that are being offered by the concerned University.

How to make money on the internet

admin — Sun, 20 May 2012 06:07:58 +0000

With the advent of university top-up fees, student life doesn’t come cheap for today’s overworked undergraduates. But the power of the internet offers up a number of ingenious ways to generate some extra beer money from the comfort of your own home. Here are ten of the best.

1. Social networking

It might seem like nothing more than a pipe dream but making money as you trawl through profiles of friends, prospective and ex boyfriends and girlfriends is actually a reality. Yuwie, an upstart social networking enterprise, offers to pay its users as they increase the page impressions of their public profiles, upload photos to share and refer others to join in the fun. All of this is achieved by a proportionate payment structure that sees around half of the website’s advertising revenue – its chief source of income – distributed directly to its user base.

Admittedly it’s still early days but with around half a million registrations to date and no shortage of testimonials, Yuwie looks like the real deal.

2. Blogging

There are two ways to make cash through blogging: either by earning commission from advertising banners placed alongside a blog of your own or by engaging in the (slightly dubious) practice of “sponsored” blogging. An array of third party tools is available in the case of the former option; Google’s AdSense remains one of the more popular solutions. Just establish yourself a decent blog, configure the ads and see what happens. Sponsored blogging on the other hand is an altogether more calculated affair, with specialists such as Blogitive and PayPerPost providing a platform through which companies essentially contract bloggers to post favourable content about their products in exchange for cash. Unethical, granted, though nonetheless undoubtedly fruitful for those subtle enough to get away with it.

3. Message boards

Every message board – both small-time niche operation and gargantuan general interest community alike – relies on posts from its members in order to sustain user interest. Newly-created forums are particularly dependent on regular contributions in order to encourage conversations and attract the registration of new members. This, of course, is where you come in. In exchange for a nominal fee of anywhere between £0.01 and £0.10 per post, message board administrators frequently advertise externally for “ringers” to sign up to their endeavours and get the ball rolling. Popular recruiting grounds include webmaster-talk and Digital Point.

4. Stock photography

If you’ve a keen eye for an impressive frame, or even just some half-decent camera kit at your disposal, selling pictures to any one of the plethora of stock photography agencies scattered across the web represents a sure-fire method of generating an income online. The likes of iStockPhoto and Fotolia offer budding photographers the incentive of earning potentially significant sums for their snaps on a per-download basis in exchange for their other royalty payment rights. Predictably, the most sought-after depictions are of a fairly mundane nature – think three-quarter view angles of pretty women dressed in suits – though equally inevitable is the high demand in some quarters for photographs of an altogether more risqué nature…

5. Surveys

As inglorious a means of making money online as you’re ever likely to find, completing market research surveys for cash is time-consuming, invasive and very, very dull. It also happens to be very effective. Opportunities in this field are virtually endless too, with literally thousands of research groups vying for your time and attention. Perhaps the most well known of these is YouGov, whose methodology involves obtaining responses from an invited group of internet users at prices ranging from £0.50 to £2.00 per survey completed. Registration is free and relatively painless, though if you are planning on going down this route, you would do well to create another email account solely for the purpose of survey completion – your personal details are going to be getting bandied around an awful lot.

6. Games

Believe it or not, it is possible to make money simply by playing computer games. Second Life, one of a range of so-called massively multi-player online games, allows users to both buy in-game currency called Linden dollars (a name derived from its creator, Linden Labs) and later exchange any amount amassed within the game back into real-world funds. Ailin Graef made the headlines in 2006 having claimed that her in-game avatar, Anshe Chung, had generated enough resources to allow her to be classified as a millionaire in reality. Other prospects include Moola, which claims to pay players over five million pounds for the straightforward task of winning thirty of its games in a row. Perhaps tellingly, the grand prize is yet to be claimed.

7. Freelancing

If you have a talent – be it for writing, graphic design or even programming – online freelancing will allow you to exploit it for a handsome profit. Services such as Elance and oDesk advertise outsourced remote working opportunities on behalf of thousands of companies and allow members to sign up to assignments according to their desired criteria. Naturally, there’s a catch – said services also take a cut of up to 15 per cent of your potential earnings. Depending on your skills and availability though, there is a lot of money to be made in this fashion, with the fastest-growing fields – like document translation – paying the best rates.

8. Poker

Likely the most controversial inclusion in this list, the online poker world is awash with sob stories of empty wallets and broken dreams from people of all walks of life who just didn’t know when to quit. If you feel like having a go at making some big bucks through gambling, extreme caution is urged. Quite apart from the fact that players need a fair degree of skill in the game to get anywhere, starting small is crucial – only bet what you can afford to lose with a smile. If you are skilled – and lucky – the potential rewards are vast, with some players regularly earning in excess of £1,000 per day. But, remember, the pitfalls are even greater. Texas Hold ‘Em is by far the most popular variant of the game – get some free practice via MSN Games.

9. Selling

A method as old as the internet itself, hawking wares through virtual auctions and shops provides a quick income boost for many students, enabling unwanted Christmas to be disposed of with ease. The obvious starting points are eBay and Amazon Marketplace , though classifieds websites such as Ad Trader are proving increasingly popular. Those of you looking to secure revenue on a more long-term basis will need to source in-demand products and be able to sell them at a mark-up on the price that you yourself paid. One example is “vintage” clothing – cheap clothes with retro appeal are available in abundance at charity shops and can easily be sold to other fashionable students online at a higher price.

10. Doing something crazy

Most truly spectacular success stories of making money online don’t involve any of the aforementioned routes at all. Instead, they showcase brazen opportunism that flies in the face of all logic and reason. Take Alex Tew’s MillionDollarHomepage from 2005 for instance – a website set up with the sole intention of selling pixels at one US dollar apiece to advertisers in order to fund its proprietor’s university degree. On paper it was a ludicrous concept – of course it was – but a 21 year-old Tew soon found himself a certified millionaire. So too did the founders of Doggles, an internet business devoted to selling goggles… for dogs. The point is that, just as in the “real” world, originality paired with good business acumen may potentially reap far greater rewards than any supposedly tried-and-true method of generating cash that you might care to mention. So be creative.

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Money Makers

admin — Sat, 19 May 2012 18:08:52 +0000

In recent years the Internet has become a haven for millions of the unemployed, and those people who have given up their day jobs to work online.

It is a golden opportunity for anyone and everyone to make their mark and have their own piece of the internet. A good start is to build your own website then what ever business you choose you are all set to advertise and start making money.

It is a well known fact that you can make money online with surveys, MLMs or affiliate programs, and even owning your own website. To be successful and make money online is due mainly to your determination to succeed, and to realise that it doesn’t happen overnight.

It may take a couple of weeks, a couple of months, or even longer, it depends on what programs you choose and how many hours you are prepared to spend on it each day. It does not have to be a nine to five job. If you are just looking to make some extra money then a few hours daily or in the evenings is adequate.

If you want to Make Money Online and become a top entrepreneur, choose a business now and work at it. You will become successful if you believe in yourself.

Build your own website and add affiliate programs, you will make money online once the traffic starts flowing to your website. You can also place Adsense ads on it which is an excellent earner.

If you want to start a business to make money online, it is almost certain you will need to build a website. The key to a good website is of course content. The content needs to be interesting and informative, also keyword rich.

Traffic is the key to success and to get that traffic you need as many websites as possible linking to you. Reciprocal linking still works but one way links work much better. For reciprocal linking try linkmarket.net or linkciti.com. For one way links you need to write articles and submit them to article directories like ezinearticles.com, articlecity.com, goarticles.com. These are just a few of many hundreds you will find on the web.

You could run a PPC campaign with Google or one of the smaller search engines like exactseek.com to gain traffic, but this can run expensive so you need to know how to do it correctly. A blog can be useful, create a free blog with blogger.com, this is owned by Google so they may look your way a bit more often. Just post two or three times a week with things of interest plus any special news about your business, it all helps. If you need a bit of help with your SEO you will find it here seobook.com they have a blog with free marketing tips and strategies plus free SEO tools to optimise your website.

Forget about free hosting if you want a long term website that will become successful. Quite often the host of your free website will withdraw your site for no reason and if it has become successful it can become quite a loss. If possible add new and interesting data daily or at least two or three times a week, Google will pick up on this and your website will rate higher.

Add new pages when ever possible, it not only works for the search engines but it also brings people back again and again to check your site out

The easiest way to make money online is to build a website. Add informational article pages and various affiliate programs. Google Adsense is also a good earner so place these in strategic positions on your website pages.
Choose your keywords for each page and use them to optimise your website, for instance “Work at Home” are excellent keywords, but as they are so popular you will find it hard to compete with other websites

Once you have built your website, submit it to as many search engines and directories as you can. then continue to add pages and articles at least once a week. By doing this the search engines will spider your pages more often and you will see it gaining more traffic.

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Grants, Loans & Financing Tools

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Small Business Consulting Resource

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:10:17 +0000

Jonathan Ross of Black Rock Consulting offers a myriad of services specifically for small businesses. Below is a description of what he can do for you from Jonathan himself.

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I’m a small business owner and operator with a boutique Business and Communications Consulting practice. I offer an integrated suite of services that at the core, focus on my ability to objectively analyze situations and markets following diligent research; to identify, articulate and hone creative solutions within a definable strategic framework; to efficiently operate on a tactical level to ensure that the necessary work gets done; and finally, to invest myself in the client’s success by serving as a business advocate and sounding board where appropriate.

My project management background provides real value to business owners because I am capable of implementing solutions and not simply making suggestions which may or may not be acted upon. I can provide very tangible value in guiding business owners through the often confusing digital media landscape, ensuring that they are not taken advantage of by unscrupulous vendors and/or developers that fail to understand the importance of establishing a clear methodology, such as developing written Business Requirements which support the actual business objectives and subsequently creating both Functional and Technical Specifications that guide all subsequent development and production efforts.

As a skilled writer, I can effectively communicate the client’s message through a wide range of executive and investor-facing deliverables, such as Business Plans, Strategic Plans, and the like, as well as through copy written for digital and print marketing materials.

I understand the needs and viewpoints of institutional as well as private investors and the various entities (investment banks, deal brokers, attorneys, etc.) that invariably become stakeholders in financing transactions.

In short, I help fellow small business owners navigate a maze of often overwhelming and conflicting information to find the solutions which meet their needs and provide a ROI measurable in monetary, knowledge and peace of mind terms.