Earn funding for your business or project with Invested.in
Written by Nathaniel Deal Monday, 14 June 2010 00:00
What's the hardest part about starting a small business or income generating project?
It's not the idea, marketing plan or target audience. It's finding the start-up funding...
So the good people over at Invested.in created a website to help you collect the initial funding needed for a startup project or business idea.
If you are an entrepenuer, business or non-profit organization this website can boost your startup capital and get you closer to your finacial goals even faster.
This new funding platform lets you promote your new ideas to friends and connections via twitter, facebook and other social medias.
And it's really simple to do! First create a new project, describe your business plans, set a funding goal and offer some reasonable perks to any investors.
Then promote your new investment to your friends and followers, and wait for the funds to come in!
If people find your investment worth while, they can come to your profile and pay into your fund via credit card. Once the goal is reached, you "the investee" can withdrawal the funds and begin your project!
Don't forget to compliment your investors, you should pay them back with free products, services or specials. Oh and thank them too!
Get Started Today - Click Here
Is Your Local Business On Foursquare?
Written by Nathaniel Deal Wednesday, 09 June 2010 00:00
Myspace, Facebook, Twitter... What's next?
Geolocation Social Media... This means is that people can tweet or facebook their exact location to their friends and followers. Creepy right?
This technology has been around for some years now, and finally people are starting to take notice.
Earlier this year, Google launched a new product called Google Latitude but it never really took off.
Boost mobile promoted this feature on their phones to gain new customers but that didn't work right either.
So who's leading the pack with this new technology? It's called Four Square.
Foursquare.com is a simple yet entertaining way to "check in" to local places and explore your community.
So how does this help a local business owner?
What if you could track valuable customer stats everytime someone comes to your venue in real time?
Stats like: Most recent visitors, most frequent visitors, number of unique visitors or even a gender breakdown of your customers.
Wouldn't this infomation be valuable to increasing your revenue and boosting your marketing efforts?
Yes! But wait theres more. What if everytime a customer comes to your business, they instantly told everyone of their friends about it.
That's free advertising!
With Foursquare you can do all of this, and best of all it can be fun for you and your customer.
Read about Four Square for business - http://foursquare.com/businesses/
Google Announces Google Places
Written by Nathaniel Deal Friday, 21 May 2010 00:00
Google has announced that it would be changing the name of the "Local Business Center" to "Google Places".
The change came about when Google realized that people were searching the web for places in the real world and not businesses.
The new "Google Places" directory also comes with a great deal of Google changes. In fact these changes are changing my life as we speak.
Google plans to add new features to simplify business interaction with its potential customers.
Here are some of the new features:
1. Service Areas: A business will be able to show which service areas they provide services to on a geographical map. And if you run a business without a storefront or office location, you will have the option to make your address private.
2. Highlighted Ads - For $25 month Google will give a business the option to have their listing highlighted to stand out above the competition. This option is already available to Austin, Atlanta and Washington and will available to other major cities very soon.
3. Request A Photo Shoot - Businesses in select cities can request Google to come to their storefront and take a photo for the directory. How cool is that?
4. QR Codes - If you haven't heard about QR codes than you should get more info on them, because they will soon be a major player in commercial branding across the world. QR codes are the funny little square bar-codes that you see on your products at home. You can scan these codes with your smart phone to see more info about products online. Now Google will allow you to advertise your business in one tiny square box. QR codes can be printed on your business cards or other printed advertisements and your customer can scan it and go directly to a mobile version of your Google Place page for directions, store info, photos, etc.
These new additions to Google Places will be crucial to any business that wants to stay ahead of the competition, so be on the lookout.
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