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The goal for most small businesses is to get bigger. To generate more income, and hold a larger share of the market. However, the process of getting from small to big, or expansion as it’s also known can be a challenging one. Fortunately, you can find some of the most essential dos and don’ts to guide you in this process below. Keep reading to find out what they are.
Though it may seem like something of a formality, your website can actually be the key to your success. When you put together an amazing website, you’re making it that much easier for customers to discover (and fall in love with) your brand, which can enhance both your reputation and sales considerably. As a result, you must find different ways to improve the quality of your website, paying attention to technological advances and popular trends when doing so – as this is the easiest way to stay ahead of the game and ensure your website presents your brand in the best possible light.
With that in mind, here are some easy ways in which you can improve the quality of your website.
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I’m probably late to the party but I just discovered small business subscriptions for ink with the HP ink program and it’s a total game changer for working from home or your small business office!
If you’re just here for the HP Instant Ink free months code, click here or use dbbg1g.
Remember the old days of printing? Never fully understanding which cartridges to buy, or where to recycle. Running low on ink when you really needed to print something and more horror experiences than I can remember.
I used to only have a professional black and white Brother printer that’s great for business admin, but as a creative business it’s a total game changer to now also own a HP color printer with unlimited (read: 300 copies a month) pages to print. And that’s a lot! But it’s only costing me less than $12 a month! Hello Instant Ink Program!
With an Instant Ink Subscription you get new ink cartridges in the mail without the hussle. It knows two main differences from other printers:
Your printer is via wifi connected with HP, and it notifies them when you’re almost out of ink and they send you new ink.
You get a subscription for ‘x’ amount of pages per month, and you get to print those pages without any extra costs. If you don’t reach your limit, you get to take the rest of the pages to next month.
Instant Ink is HP’s ink delivery service. Your HP Printer automatically orders ink, and cartridges. The HP Instant Ink delivery service can save you up to 50% on ink. They are delivered to your door before you run low and you get to recycle your old ones, just add them to the box your new ones got delivered with and mail them back to HP.
See how you can save time and up to 50% on ink that’s ordered by your printer and delivered to your door before you run out.
Yes! As a small business owner, blogger and all around creative I enjoy printing colourful pages so much. To print my own products and planners, to create vision boards and more. I got the 300 a month plan, and to be honest… that’s a lot. I was really happy with my free months of printing as well and to never go to the store to buy the (wrong) cartridges and all those things. I really enjoy the wireless part of the printer too. I hated those wires that came with my old printer and the fact that I always had to be close to the printer with my computer to be able to print. Now I just print from my mobile or laptop and it’s so easy!
But keep in mind when choosing a HP Instant Ink plan that printing is not good for the environment and that you still have to get the paper. And those packages come often in 500 pages, so that would mean about one pack every month. Also, as a (wannabe) minimalist I’m not a big fan of paper everywhere, so I only print what I need to and try to use the paper twice if it’s just a draft.
So I suggest you start with one of the lower plans to see how you like it. How often you really need to print. I know how tempting it is to print every recipe you come across now and every beautiful motivational quote of image you find on Pinterest, and allll the planners you use but is it really necessary or will you print it just because you can ‘for free’?
Head over to Amazon to purchase your HP Printer. I got one for just $80 and it’s working perfectly, even for photos. Click here for free months of Instant Ink or use the code dbbg1g for free months!
I wrote about 5 programs/sites you can use to schedule your Pinterest pins before and made a pretty good breakdown of the differences between each site. As you might know, I love Pinterest! It’s my biggest source of traffic and how I make the most money on autopilot, thanks to this strategy. But recently I decided to step up my game to go all in on using Tailwind to schedule my pins. Wanna know why? Read along… (more…)
If you’re just starting out in business one of the hardest things to achieve is that of building authority within your marketplace as a credible company and as someone that can provide value, particularly if you’re operating in a crowded marketplace where there are already several dominant companies on the horizon that are viewed as the “go-to expert” within this area.
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Small at-home businesses are usually run by a single person. While they can occasionally hire freelancers and outsource work, most of the decision making is managed by a single person. As such, there’s a lot of responsibility on that person’s shoulders and it can be rather daunting to try and run a business in that environment. (more…)
Whether you work at a family law firm or in personal injury or even prosecution – humans are at the heart of what you do. And, their feelings are inextricably linked to every issue you deal with but are the key to success.
This can be difficult to manage, and countless law firms take a slightly removed stance to ensure that they can achieve the best outcomes. But, as human connections become increasingly hard to achieve in this digital age, it’s just possible that staying a step removed isn’t the best option. When it comes to the key elements to every successful business, legal businesses need something more. (more…)
Becoming an entrepreneur is hard work. With all of the responsibilities and commitments that you need to keep in mind, it’s no wonder that most successful entrepreneurs just think differently compared to the rest of us. It’s difficult to fortify your mind and prepare yourself for such a relentless lifestyle, but there are plenty of small things that you can do to improve your chances of success.
So let’s take a look at a couple of ways that you can develop a more refined entrepreneurial mindset. (more…)
Laws govern business, and it is relatively easy to get on the wrong side of the law if you do not follow the rules. Legal issues in business is quite common. It is your responsibility as a business owner to make sure that you limit the risk that your business faces. Failure to do so may increase the possibility of a lawsuit, and in some cases, you may need bail bonds to get out of jail. Here are four tips to resolve and avoid legal issues in business.
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Dipping your toes into the fast-paced world of retail can be a risky business. In recent years, many small businesses and household names have succumbed to the fall of what people know as the traditional high street or retail complex.
Across the world, the power of internet shopping and being able to purchase what you need online has put tremendous pressure on physical retail stores to do business in a way they have never done before and adapt to a whole new way of selling products if they want even a glimmer of hope as succeeding. Many businesses of varying sizes have risen to the challenge.
If you are looking for ways to entice your customers to keep coming back time and time again, you need to make it attractive and offer them something they can’t get elsewhere. (more…)
No matter where you work or what kind of job you do, there are so many potential workplace injuries that can happen to any of us. It is of course always in your best interest to ensure that you are avoiding such injuries, as well as helping the people around you to avoid them too, and that means that you are going to require a certain level of awareness of how this can be done while you are at work. In this article, we are going to take a look at what you can do in order to ensure that you are avoiding all of those common workplace injuries, and how you can make sure you encourage the same behaviour in other people at the same time. (more…)
For anyone preparing to enter into any business, knowing the right industry is the first step towards being a successful investor. While many investors fail to make progress in their business investments, the successful ones tend to extract millions every year. It is little wonder that the best industry to invest in remains a million-dollar question, literally.
Although there isn’t a single industry that one can term as the best, potential entrepreneurs can use certain factors to guide their decision. So, are you unsure which business sector offers you a more solid first step? Consider the following tips. (more…)