From House Wife To Networking Business Woman Extraordinaire – UmNumNum.ie
Margaret Smith was a quiet, shy, stay at home mother who transformed in a couple of years to become a successful business owner of UmNumNum boutique cookery school. Not only that but Margaret has...
View ArticleBringing A Traditional Butcher’s Shop Into The 21st Century In Meaty Style
From a traditional high street butchers shop to online shopping, nationwide deliveries, books, videos and media attention, James Whelan Butchers is leading the way. I spotted Pat Whelan on Twitter a...
View ArticleWhat Motivates People in Online Communities to Participate?
Being a forty something….I get this question a lot from my peers. This is a behavioural question that business and organisations all over the world are trying to understand. In my Social Business...
View ArticleUsing LinkedIn To Market Your Business
How many articles about social media are there? 1 million? 2? Do you really think we need another one? Well, I think that we do, and this here’s the reason why. The invention of social media sites gave...
View ArticleHOW You Say WHAT You Say… And WHERE You Say It
Elevator pitches / Marketing materials / Introductions / Business cards / Proposals / Letters / Websites / Social media What do all these things have in common? They all represent you and your...
View ArticleGrowing Blog Traffic: 100K Uniques P/M And 10 Lessons Learnt Along The Way
Tweak Your Biz got 100K unique visits during December, 2012. It’s taken us three years to build up to this level of traffic, and we’ve made mistakes and learnt lots along the way. Here’s what it has...
View ArticleGarrendenny Lane Closing: What Lorna Did Next
Many of you will know Lorna Sixsmith from her successful business Garrendenny Lane, or Write on Track, or the Blog Awards Ireland 2012 or as a contributor to Tweak your Biz. Maybe you have read Lorna’s...
View ArticleTwitter’s 7th Birthday And My 100,000th Tweet
Wow, so it’s my 100,000th tweet week and Twitter is 7 years old too. I first joined Twitter in January 2009 and it’s been an eventful journey. During this time I’ve had some great times and only a few...
View Article5 Changes Your Business Can Make To Experience Exponential Growth
What is the best way to take your business to the next level? Depending on who you ask, you’ll probably hear something like “do more marketing,” “invest in SEO,” “social media is the next big thing,”...
View ArticleDon’t Let The Internet Take Over Your Business!
What drives your search for answers to improve your business? Is it a deep understanding of who you are and what you do; is it an awareness of your objectives/goals and what you want for yourself and...
View ArticleMyKidsTime.ie Are Building A Viral B2C(2B) Facebook Community & Business –...
MyKidsTime.ie is a listings website for parents and their children in Ireland and their continued success on Facebook offers wonderful insights to other SMEs on how to use digital to grow business. In...
View Article3 Ways To Achieve User Engagement For Your Website
Digital revolution has profoundly reflected on users’ behavior and their higher expectations to participate and contribute more actively online. The new face of the internet has changed the interactive...
View ArticleThe A To Z Of Business Trends Predicted For 2014
So 2013 is gone and now 2014 is beginning. As with every year we are all looking to start afresh with new goals and desires, personally and professionally. Maybe you are continuing with previous plans...
View ArticleHow We Grew A B2B Blog Into A Business With 100,000+ Unique Visitors Per Month
This post originally appeared on Niall Devitt’s LinkedIn, Niall is a regular contributor to Tweak Your Biz. For anyone not familiar with TweakYourBiz.com, it’s an international, business advice...
View ArticleImplementing Small Changes In Strategy That Can Make A Big Difference
“Big things come in small packages!” This is especially true for startups and small businesses that are very keen about increasing their profits and are ready to do anything for it. The only problem...
View Article5 Places You Haven’t Thought Of To Find New Business
As small business owners, we’re known to look under every rock and in every nook and cranny for new business. Heck, we pass out our business cards at the grocery store! And yet, we might be looking in...
View ArticleWhat Is Organic SEO?
In many marketing circles, including my own, the term SEO is almost a dirty word. We associate it with cheap back links, dodgy companies offering, “THE FIRST SPOT ON GOOGLE FOR YOUR BUSINESS!!!!!!” and...
View ArticleWhat Values Can We Learn From a Social Media Crisis?
We’ve been under the impression that social media is all good things until we, or our business, are hit by a social media crisis which turned things upside down. It is not uncommon for a business, no...
View ArticleBusiness Networking International: Tip for Overseas Meetings
Doing business on an international basis is commonplace in this day and age. A great many business owners, managers, entrepreneurs and others find themselves involved in overseas meetings. There are...
View Article5 Ways to Automate a Business and Watch It Scale Quickly
When you hear the term automation, what comes to mind? Robotic interaction? What if I told you, you could eliminate marketing tasks from your to-do list and still automate your company so you sound...
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