Business Benefit from Facebook
In a recent infographic, businesses report being highly satisfied with the positive impact Facebook has on their marketing. A survey taken in October 2011 by 1,972 small business owners and employees with 87 percent located in the US and 81 percent of these organizations have 25 or less employees revealed that these businesses preceive a significant reduction in barriers to the adoption of social media. Social media marketing, once viewed by many business owners as time-consuming or difficult, is now more readily accepted as people have discovered how easy it actually is to implement.
Online Reviews and Your Business
Owning a small business is full of rewards and challenges. One of the greatest rewards is having repeat business that values and appreciates what you do and shares it with the people around them. When good word spreads about your small business, then you will probably see more and more business coming to you. The challenge arises when the word being spread about your small business is not completely positive. What do you do at that point?
Looking Good for Small Business
Small business is on the rise, according to recent economic indicators. There is a lot to be excited about on the business front if you happen to be one of the thousands of American corporate refugees fleeing the collapsing economy in search of greener pastures, often in their own backyards. Starting a new business in trying financial times can be a little crazy, is certainly fraught with its share of dangers, but anyone who can get something off the ground in this economy and hang in there until things improve can weather any storm in more ordinary times.
Is it Time for Steve Ballmer to Go?
Famous hedge fund manager and Greenlight Capital, Inc. President David Einhorn this week sounded the rallying cry for the ouster of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, under whose watch Microsoft has fallen to competitors across an eyebrow raising span of categories. As the new big kids on the block, Apple (which admittedly isn’t “new” but is newly big) and Google, launch innovative cloud technologies combined with new mobile operating systems and tablets, the PC market continues to experience a downward spiral in sales. Demand for Microsoft’s flagship operating system, Windows, continues to go downhill as consumers increasingly find iOS, Android, Mac OS X (and soon, Google’s Chrome OS) to be more fun. Another factor contributing to this could be a recent upsurge in the interest of common users in alternative and open source operating systems such a Linux, with its host of customized distributions and low cost.
