Small business owners rely on Craigslist for a myriad of tasks: to furnish their offices, buy equipment, even hire employees. But it’s all too easy for your ads to get lost amidst the millions of others posted to the site. (Craigslist posts 60 million new ads a month, and garners 50 billion page views.) Serial entrepreneur Bill Fishkin, inspired by complaints from some of his clients, created PostMaven to help your Craigslist ads stand out from the crowd. The service, which offers 15 different templates, is free. Additional offerings will be introduced later this fall.
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Web.com Review: Small Business Resource: Postmaven.com: Craigslist Advertising Tool
September 7th, 2012 :: Maria Valdez HaubrichSmall Biz Resource Tip: Setting Up an eBay Store
March 4th, 2011 :: Maria Valdez Haubrich
If you’re looking to increase your Web presence and think another selling avenue might do the trick, check out the option of setting up a store on eBay. An eBay store can look and feel like your own website but you’ll attract avid eBay shoppers on their platform. eBay provides designing and marketing tools, plus you’ll be able to use eBay’s toll-free customer support program. With over 62 million unique visitors (according to Compete.com), you can’t afford to ignore this huge market. eBay stores come with a monthly subscription fee and you’ll pay an insertion fee for auctions. There is also a fixed-price fee format available.
Google+Small Biz Resource Tip: GiveMe5
February 4th, 2011 :: Maria Valdez Haubrich
Being awarded a government contract can open the doors to many opportunities you never thought possible. And women-owned businesses are in hot demand. Five percent of all government contracts must be awarded to women-owned businesses (and there’s talk of increasing that percentage). A partnership between the nonpartisan group Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP) and American Express OPEN, the Give Me 5 program is designed to educate women business owners on how to apply for and secure federal contracting opportunities. Through online workshops and live webinars, Give Me 5 guides business owners through the CCR registration process, tells them how to market to the federal government and informs them about special programs for various types of businesses.
Google+Small Biz Resource Tip: Amazon.com Corporate Accounts
December 13th, 2010 :: Maria Valdez Haubrich
If you freqeuently find yourself on Amazon.com buying office products and corporate gifts (especially during the holiday season), it makes sense to check out the option to open an Amazon.com corporate account. Although the account doesn’t mean you’ll be getting bulk discounts (prices on Amazon.com are already comparatively low), an Amazon.com corporate account does allow other members of your staff to order their own supplies, while giving you a detailed report of their purchases. You may also sign up for an Amazon.com Corporate Credit Line. If your business’s accounting system uses purchase orders, Amazon.com makes the ability to purchase by P.O. number available.
Google+SCORE Small Business Community Launches: www.scorecommunity.org
May 22nd, 2009 :: Steven FisherToday, SCORE announced the launch of its new small business community at http://www.scorecommunity.org
For those of you not familiar with SCORE, it stands for “Service Corps Of Retired Executives” and was started in 1964 as “Counselors to America’s Small Business”. Over time, this non-profit organization has helped more than 8.3 million aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners through counseling and business workshops. More than 11,200 volunteer business counselors in 370 chapters serve their communities through entrepreneur education dedicated to the formation, growth and success of small businesses.
Connecting through Online Communities
Continuing their mission, they have extended their knowledge and outreach to an online community of small business that need this mentorship. I speak from experience because I worked with SCORE back in 1999 to write my first real “raise some money” business plan and I couldn’t have done it without my SCORE mentor.
The community is powered by PartnerUp, which has a large online community geared solely toward small business owners and entrepreneurs. PartnerUp is the leading provider of enterprise solutions software for companies looking to target the small business market. PartnerUp was founded in February 2005 and acquired by Deluxe Corporation in July 2008. PartnerUp is headquartered in Minneapolis. For more information, visit http://corporate.partnerup.com.
Essentially, the community is a private labeled version of PartnerUp with content from their site taking advantage of their already established network. This is important for first impressions because many people who visit a community like this for the first time are looking for value and people using it already. Over time, this will grow on its own with specific content and an exclusive community but for now this is a great start in the right direction.
For more information check out the SCORE Community at http://www.scorecommunity.org
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