3 Ways You Can Drive More Sales With Social Networks

Getting your small business on social sites and building a strong social media platform can help you gain more customers and ultimately make more sales. However, what specific actions can you perform on social media to drive more sales to your business? Here are a few ideas:

  1. Create Short Videos for YouTube

    One of the biggest social networking sites is YouTube. Its capacity for storing and sharing millions of short video clips seems endless. While it started out as a way for anyone to post their short videos online, it has evolved into a successful social media marketing medium for small and medium business.

    Using the highest video production elements (sound, light, editing), create short videos that you can share with customers and potential customers.

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Jul 02, 2011


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Another Nashville vacation club is called a scam

Another discount vacation/travel club in Nashville has become the target of multiple consumer complaints, The Tennessean has learned, and the company has abruptly closed its doors.

Middle Tennessee residents have filed six complaints about The Vacation Station, which operated in a Grassmere office park until moving out last month.

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Jul 01, 2011


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HP Tablet Offers Option For Professionals

A growing number of companies are turning to tablets in place of laptops for professionals often on the move. Forbes highlighted some features on the new HP TouchPad that hopes to tap into this segment of tablet users to challenge Apple’s market-leading iPad.

The iPad created a new market essentially from scratch and it needed to have a broad appeal to do so. By comparison, the HP TouchPad was able to look at the needs of businesses and specifically target some of the biggest gaps in the iPad’s performance.

Key among these gaps was the difficulty of multitasking. Read more…

Jun 29, 2011


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Producers hope faith-based movie surge continues

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Producers of faith-based movies have a message for Hollywood studios: Make the movies and customers will pay to watch them.

The enormous success of Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” in 2004 shocked Hollywood when it grossed $611 million worldwide. D

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Jun 28, 2011


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California eyes Amazon Tax to reap sales tax bounty

A judicial loophole allows online-only retailers (such as Amazon.com) to avoid the rules of sales tax collection, resulting in a loss of $1.1 billion in taxes on internet and mail order sales last year in California according to the State Board of Equalization. The board estimates that enforcing sales tax collection on internet companies would result in an additional $786 million to the state general fund and $359 million to local governments. Over 20 years ago, at the dawn of the Internet, the government decided to exempt online retailers from collecting sales taxes in an effort to increase Internet sales.

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Jun 27, 2011


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5 Important Features You Need In A Business Web Host

A web host is like a partner in your business more than just a vendor. Without the proper support, features, and products from a web host, your small business website cannot thrive on the world wide web as it should.

But what kind of features and extras do you need to ensure that your small business website has the proper hosting package? Below we supply you with the 5 most important features we feel your small business needs. Use these to determine if you have the right hosting plan or if it’s time to find a new and better host.

  1. Cost vs Time Commitment

    If you are paying for a shared-server hosting plan, you are probably saving a great deal of money, especially compared to paying dedicated server prices. B

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Jun 26, 2011


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Tags: Business Web, Host, Web Host