Before you sell to a new customer, you have to engage with them in some way. Not sure how to accomplish that? How about including a quiz on your website? “A lot of customers need to interact with businesses a few times before they’re comfortable moving forward into that more formalized buying arena. So a Read more about How Do You Create a Quiz for Your Website, to Increase Engagement?[More…]
Tracking leads throughout the buying process helps you get an idea for what sales are close to closing and which others are worth pursuing. Monitoring every single lead within your company manually can be incredibly time consuming. But sales automation tools give you some helpful guidance and insights that allow you to prioritize tasks and Read more about How Do You Use Sales Automation to Track Leads[More…]
Could a marketing bot help your business automatically convert more website visitors to buyers? Let’s find out. This Wednesday, August 14, 2019 from 2:00-4:00 p.m. ET, our guest will be Deven Patel, the founder of the AI-powered marketing bot Alter. Members can go to this particular Town Hall Event here. Not a member? No problem. Read more about Does Your Small Business Need a Marketing Bot? AMA with Deven Patel Wed 8/14/19 2-4p ET[More…]
Martin Lindeskog is featuring our BizSugar members on his EGO NetCast podcast. He will be sharing interviews with select members with our community so that we can all get to know each other better and learn what each of us does. It is also a way to find out more about the BizSugar Mastermind and Read more about EGO NetCast Podcast Featuring Gail Gardner, BizSugar Mastermind Community Manager[More…]
If you want to increase your average order volume, you should be upselling. Upselling is when you offer customers an additional product or service on top of one they’ve already purchased. Often, this comes with a discount or some other kind of incentive. Think: ‘For just $10 more we’ll include an extended warranty.’ Or, ‘Add Read more about How Do You Automate Your Upselling Process?[More…]
What does end-to-end automation of your business mean? Find out in this AMA (ask me anything) with Kiran Kumar Shinde of Zoho One Concierge. WHEN: July 24, 2019, 10 am PST / 12 pm CT / 1 pm ET Kiran interacts regularly with businesses and consults with them on ways to digitize and automate workflows Read more about What Does End-to-end Automation of Your Business Mean? AMA with Kiran Kumar Shinde of Zoho One Concierge Wed. July 24 1-3 pm ET[More…]
You are invited to join our BizSugar Sharing platform. Read on to find out why you would want to and what our regular members see as the benefits. BizSugar Sharing is the original BizSugar site moved to a new sub-domain at share.bizsugar.com. Many of our users have been with BizSugar since 2007! What is BizSugar Read more about BizSugar Sharing: How to Get More Views for Your Content[More…]
Content marketing has to be one of the most critical skills every small business must have. From your emails to your social media presence to the copy on your website and blog, we all need to continually work to make our content more compelling. Content Related Topics Carole Will Cover Carole would love to answer Read more about Content Marketing Best Practices for Small Businesses: AMA with Carole Alalouf Wed, 6/12/19 1-3 p.m. ET[More…]
Why should every small business and freelancer consider podcasting? Check out these 2019 statistics from Podcast Insights: 51% of the U.S. population has listened to a podcast 49% listen at home 22% listen in a car That surprises me as I would have thought most podcast listeners do so during their commute time. Join us Read more about Podcasting 101: How to Guest On, Start, Run and Develop a Podcast: AMA with Martin Lindeskog[More…]
Blogs are popular because they’re easy to use. And if you’re the do-it-yourself type, you can even install one yourself. If you’re not, you can either learn how or hire someone to do it for you. It is well worth it as long as you commit to publishing at least some quality content. So how Read more about How to Create a WordPress Blog in a Few Hours (or Perfect the Blog You Have): AMA with Merrill Cook[More…]