Who should buy what you sell?
Part two of my four-part Marketing for the Best of Us™! Blog series, which answers the four critical questions for growing the revenue of any business. Who Should Buy what You Sell? If you are a...
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What are YOU selling? Who should buy what you sell? Why should they buy what you sell? How do you inspire them to buy? This posting (What are YOU selling?) is part one of my four-part Marketing for the...
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Marketing for the Best of Us™!
What are YOU selling? Who should buy what you sell? Why should they buy what you sell? How do you inspire them to buy? Part three of my four-part Marketing for the Best of Us™! Blog series, which...
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Recognition: Great to Get – Even Better to Give!
On March 23rd, the Alexandria SBDC will celebrate the fact that our colleague Patra Frame of Strategies for Human Resources has won the award as the State of Virginia SBDC Small Business Veteran of the...
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Spinning Your Wheels on Marketing?
The following blog was written by Heidi O’Leska, Vintage Juice Brand marketing, who presented a workshop on this subject for the Alexandria SBDC last week. More than likely, it’s not the marketing,...
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Business Finance 101
This post is written by Bill Reagan, Executive Director of the SBDC and first appeared in the Alexandria Times on March 17, 2017. For many of us, understanding financial matters is a challenge, and...
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What’s the Industry Coming To?! Let’s Put Online Recruiting in Its (Proper)...
If the definition of insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results, the world of online job recruiting is certifiably bonkers. I encounter one or more of the following...
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Wire Management is a Design Issue
The cash wrap in the photo above is in a medium high end fashion boutique in a trendy “New Urban” style shopping center with other similar competitors up and down the center. I noted the problem...
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Showing hospitality to visitors
This post is written by Bill Reagan, Executive Director of the SBDC and first appeared in the Alexandria Times on April 27, 2017. The start of baseball season, young green leaves on our trees and hints...
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Bring your toughest design problems!
will be showcasing many projects and explaining our services at the BL Business Expo on Friday June 2nd. Please Join us. The BL Business Expo Event, in its 13 year, showcases the products and services...
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National #SmallBusinessWeek Chat with @ScoreMentors and @Rieva
[View the story “#SmallBusinessWeek chat hosted by @ScoreMentors and @Rieva” on Storify] SCORE Association (previously Service Corps of Retired Executives) and Rieva Lesonsky (CEO, GrowBiz Media &...
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Learning LinkedIn: Adult Social Media
It’s that time of year: Pollen counts are high, toes are peeking out of shoes, and bright-eyed graduates are spilling out of classrooms and into the job market – the world of adulthood. Looking for...
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Getting Found on Google: Search Engine Optimization for Local Small Business
In our latest Beyond Google Webinar, I had the pleasure of talking about “Getting Found on Google: Search Engine Optimization for Local Small Business.” This is an important topic and one in which is...
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Exceeding Customer Expectations
This article was written by Ray Sidney-Smith, facilitator for Alexandria Small Business Development Center’s monthly Business Development Roundtable. You may join us every third Tuesday of the month...
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LinkedIn 201: Perfecting your LinkedIn Settings
In the beginning, she had just graduated. Flush with her accomplishment and a sense of possibility, she set out to conquer the world. On the first day, she created a profile on LinkedIn. And (because...
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Know Yourself
This post was written by Gloria Flanagan, Assistant Director, Alexandria SBDC I attended two programs last week – one was the Alexandria Small Business Roundtable discussion on work spaces (home-based...
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eCommerce Basics for Retail Small Business | Web and Beyond
Find the original archive of the video here: https://youtu.be/ct9-zrgffHk. Point of Sale – eCommerce – mCommerce solutions for Small Business Selling online today is seemingly easier than ever! You...
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Retail Doom & Gloom: Crisis or Opportunity?
Mid Year State of the Market: Maurisa Potts, in a mid year “state of the market” presentation sponsored by the Alexandria SBDC featured a headline stating, “Soft economy hitting big retailers hard.”...
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What’s New at Google – May June July 2017
In the past few months, Google has been busy! Google added some fancy charting features to Google Sheets, Android Pay partnered with PayPal, Google NoCaptcha reCaptcha arrived, Backup and Sync from...
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LinkedIn 301: The Master Class
Welcome back, dear graduates and job seekers! As we approach the end of this summer-long “course” on LinkedIn, you may be sighing in relief. This summer, you’ve worked to build an outstanding profile...
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