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5 Business Tax Breaks for Disasters
On the heels of Hurricane Florence, businesses should be aware of tax breaks to help them through weather disasters resulting from nature or humans. Tax relief can help ameliorate the financial cost from the damage or destruction to your business property.
You Have a Business Listing; Now What?
Get Customer Reviews and Much More Business listings and online reviews have become increasingly important to online success. GatherUp is a service that helps businesses: encourage satisfied customers to leave both direct reviews and public online reviews; get...
Mold at Your Business Can Be Your Worst Enemy: 8 Ways to Protect Yourself
Mold can present serious issues for a business. It can cause health concerns for employees, particularly those with asthma or allergies. And that can lead to lost productivity or work hours. Especially with the current hurricane season, plenty of businesses are likely...
5 User Generated Content Secrets Revealed to Boost Your eCommerce Sales
There are so many paid advertisements saturating websites and social media platforms that they are making users “immune” to their messages. Scrolling through social media, users recognize paid ads and largely decide to ignore them.
Google Plus to Shut Down: What Small Businesses Need to Know
Google is shutting down Google+ as a social network, effective August 31, 2019. Google made the announcement on October 8, the same day as a Wall Street Journal story outlining that the data of a half million users was exposed. Google knew about the security issue...
Gearing Up for Black Friday 2018
Hey y’all! Anyone who knows me over the years knows…. I LOVE THE HOLIDAYS!!!! So I’m back again this year to talk about Black Friday and how it’s going to affect your business. I’m also sharing my Black Friday predictions as well as which stores will be open on...
How to Create the Best Videos for Instagram
So, how do small businesses get involved? What are the best practices to get video working for you on Instagram? Here are a few thoughts that should supply a framework and even allow your small business to compete with bigger players and their large marketing budgets.
Social Media Marketing
We take pride in our marketing efforts here at Data Age and in turn often get the opportunity to answer our customers' questions about marketing and promotions. Shop owners often want to know how they can go about marketing their business online. We've put together a...
13 Ways Small Business Owners Can Reduce Busy Work and Be Truly Productive
Any small business owner can tell you that running a company requires a lot of time, effort and dedication. Some entrepreneurs make the mistake of piling too much “busy work” on their plates, which doesn’t leave them much time to focus on the tasks that only they can...
Facebook: More Than Just A “Place for Friends”
I remember when Facebook first came to my attention back in 2005. My college classmates were talking about a website where you could “connect” with one another and post messages on each other’s “walls”. Our school had just become eligible to be part of this “social...
9 Social Media Management Hacks for Marketers
With all the many to-dos that come with social media management, it’s key to identify productivity hacks so that you can get maximum results with your limited time.
The Top 9 Ways Your Small Business Wastes Electricity Every Day – And What You Can Do
Failing to turn off electrical equipment costs a small business dearly in superfluous energy consumption and thereby unnecessarily inflated energy bills. With the price of energy rising, it is within every small business’s interest to make savings on this unavoidable...
25 Ways to Get More People to Your Website
In 2016, a staggering 209.6 million people in the U.S. browsed products, compared priced and bought items online. Having a website to showcase your services or products is pivotal in remaining commercially competitive in the 21st century. That said, if nobody is...
How to Use New Instagram Features to Promote Your Local Business
Instagram has been busy releasing all manner of new features in recent months. From IGTV to Instagram Live, contributor Gaurav Sharma breaks down how these tools can help boost engagement and sales from your local business’ audience.
Get the Most Out of e-foro
These days almost everyone is shopping online, or at the very least doing online research before making a purchase. eCommerce is becoming a part of our national fabric, and retailers need to be ready to roll with the changes. Now you may say, "Wait, I'm not a...
Simple Steps for Securing Your Systems
Picture this—it’s Monday morning and you show up at your shop, everything is looking great for the week. You have a monumental event planned and you cannot wait to see the amount of sales and loans the week coming up has in store. You get your shop set up and ready to...
Do You Have a Disaster Recovery Plan?
Disaster recovery refers to what a company will do, especially with its information systems, in the aftermath of an adverse event to quickly recover and resume to normal business operations. Any time that an unexpected event – data security breach or a natural...
Marketing is the #1 Problem According to Small Businesses: 9 Ways To Do Marketing Effectively
Generating and retaining customers is the lifeblood of every small business in the world. Which is why it’s no surprise that business owners find marketing the #1 biggest challenge. We recently ran a survey with 304 business owners to uncover their biggest interests...