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How Does Local Search Work?
How does local search work? If you’re a small business owner, you probably wish you knew. All that time you’re putting into your product or services, your customer experience, your social media marketing and all the other things you do on a daily business to give...
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How to Sell Guns Online for Your Pawn Shop
These types of websites are particularly important because some of the major e-commerce channels like Amazon and eBay do not allow you to list guns. Craigslist also prohibits listing firearms. You’ll find some listed anyway, simply because the website has difficulty...
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The Next 10 Websites You Should Visit for Success as a Business Leader
Having a mind open to learning new things and being flexible are two hallmarks of a strong and successful business leader. As a businessperson, whether you are running a corporation or are just flying solo, you will have to learn how to lead your company while...
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The wealthy are using pawn shops to finance their business ideas
Wealthy people looking to fund new ventures are turning to their Rolexes and art collections as collateral for quick and easy loans from high-end pawn shops. Business owners say the trend points less to financial distress and more to customers eager to seize...
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Payoff Debt Vs. Invest In Your Business: This Article will Help You Decide What’s Best
Debt can be a huge liability for most people but for business owners, it can be even more damaging. Entrepreneurs tend to have a fluctuating income and must meet the challenge of budgeting for fixed expenses with it. Add on the fact that it’s wise to invest in your...
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Having A Clean Business Can Improve Your Sales
If you have ever watched one of those cleaning shows like ”How Clean is your House” or ”Extreme Hoarders,” then you know how easy it is to accumulate dirt and grime in a room. While this doesn’t sound like a problem that could affect a business, you’d be surprised at...
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How drug lords make billions smuggling gold to Miami for your jewelry and phones
When Juan Granda ventured into Peru’s Amazon rainforest to score another illicit load of gold, he boasted that he felt like legendary Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. “I’m like Pablo coming ... to get the coke,” he told two co-workers in a text message in...
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5 Things NOT to Do With Your Generational Marketing
Are you in tune with what different generations of shoppers want? Probably not: A recent survey reports marketers are often off base about what matters most to different generations. A Blueprint for Using Audience Insights in Marketing Strategies surveyed both...
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6 smart e-commerce lessons to boost local business
With more and more people window shopping on a small screen, contributor Wesley Young shares six ways to use online tactics to drive customers to an offline store.
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Search outpaced social for referral traffic last year, driving 35% of site visits vs social’s 26% share of visits
According to a new referral traffic report from Shareaholic, 2017 was the first time since 2014 search owned a larger share of visits over social.
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1 in 5 Businesses Will Abandon Their Mobile App by 2019
Businesses big and small often struggle to find a useful purpose for their mobile apps. This is especially frustrating because developing and updating an app so it remains at least somewhat functional requires more than a nominal investment. Well, it appears that...
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Filling the Knowledge Gap
I believe the Pawnbroker Development program is important because there is so much, as a pawnbroker, that you need to learn and understand. From being out on the location what you understand is that there is a big knowledge gap, from the way business used to be as a...
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10 Tech-Centric Methods for Growing Your Business
You already know that technology can have a major impact on your business. But it’s finding the right technology to use that’s the real trick. For that, it can help to get some expertise from other successful business owners. Here’s what some members of the online...
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50 Random Acts of Kindness Your Customers Will Love
Want to improve your community and help your business at the same time? You can accomplish both of those things and more through random acts of kindness. It might not seem like these simple acts should be at the top of your priority list. But being helpful and kind...
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5 Ways Your Business Can Use Snapchat
Just like Twitter or Facebook were when they first came out, Snapchat still seems foreign and new to most businesses. However, even though its focus is on sending photo and video messages one at a time (which also expire after a time period you set), it can be...
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What Americans spend on an engagement ring in each state, ranked from lowest to highest
Americans on average spend $6,351 on an engagement ring, according to The Knot's 2017 Real Weddings Study. We asked the sales team at Ritani, an online diamond retailer that specializes in engagement rings, to dive deeper into the statistics and find the average price...
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Why Rewarding Your Followers On Twitter Is A Great Marketing Idea
There’s no particular formula or recipe on how to successfully promote your brand on Twitter or social media in general. There are all sorts of effective moves and strategies you can employ, and which one you will choose depends on the type of your industry, your...
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Getting Started with eCommerce
The biggest thing we run into is clients who want to get online and sell their items, they don’t know where to start. The answer is simple; I would seek some professional advice of people within the industry.
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