ADUTAINMENT: Advertising as Entertainment
JellyBasket.com - JELLY by the CASE or as a GIFT BASKET.

Contextual Advertising - A Better Way To Advertise?
If you run a business you must advertise. It doesn?t matter what size business you have, you must advertise to let others know what you are selling. Advertising is what gets people to your website or to your door. This is the only way you can make money with your business.

Delivering Value in an Online Business
There are more than 5 billion web pages with millions of businesses trying to do business online. But only a few have succeeded while the rest are mere billboards on the internet superhighway.

Power E-mailing For Your Home Business
Most of us send out emails almost every day we do it so often with out even thinking about it, as a result they are often written and sent out less than perfect and fail to produce the desired result.

The Paradigm Shift of Internet Marketing
There is a trend going on in the world of internet marketing. If you truly open your eyes and pay attention to everything in the internet marketing world, you will notice this specific trend that is rapidly invading our email inboxes from every internet marketing guru out there.

Business for Sale Online Academy Announces December Webinars
Business for Sale Online Academy, a resource to help people buy, sell, or finance an existing business purchase, announces free webinars in December. The online courses are taught by industry expert Peter Siegel.

What Is A Search Engine Marketing Company?
Today, when it comes to popularising a brand around the globe, Internet marketing is what every business owner seeks for leaving behind the traditional methods of marketing like advertisements and promotional methods. With Internet marketing, a business owner can do an online promotion of its products or services on a wider scale by reaching out to both the local and international markets.

W3i President and CEO, Robert Weber, Presents at the Sixth Annual Information, Marketing, Financial Technology & Internet Services Conference held
Weber presented a corporate overview to increase awareness of W3i and how its growing Interactive marketing services can benefit leading businesses.

Jenzabar Teams with Cognos to Provide Cognos 8 Business Intelligence for Colleges and Universities
Allows Jenzabar Client Institutions Access to Powerful Business Intelligence Tools Tightly Integrated with their Jenzabar ERP

The Blog Squad's Winning "Ideal Internet Marketing Client" Announced
Summary: The Blog Squad™ has named Erik Feder the winner of their "Ideal Client" contest; he will be featured and mentored on blogging and internet marketing during a 13 week live radio show on VoiceAmerica™ Channel, www.voice.voiceamerica.com. The radio show, Blogging and Beyond debuts January 11, Thursdays at 11 a.m. ET and runs through April 5.

ITV Ventures? and the Changing World of Network Marketing
The television infomercial company ITV has created the marketing company ITV Ventures? as a network marketing opportunity for home-based business entrepreneurs. ITV has been a successful TV infomercial producer and product distributor for the past 6 years. The company has various lead programs that make this home business different from traditional home based businesses. A lead program called the home agent program enables Independent Business Owners to take live phone calls directly to them from TV infomercials.

Formal Business Attire is Making a Comeback
The dot com boom of 1990s brought with it a laissez-faire attitude to dress code. Business casual was not a word that was part of our daily vocabulary.

HD Based Video Camera
HD, or high definition, is making a lot of interest, due to some very high spirited campaigning done by the cable networks wanting you to buy HD boxes to watch HD on television.

Web2Corp (WBTO) to Launch Video Job Matching Service, JobMatchPro.com
Video resume service will offer employers, job searchers new innovative way to meet, interview online.

Industrial 6-Rotor Unmanned Helicopter Provides High Definition Wireless Video and High Resolution Photographs
Draganfly Innovations releases the Draganflyer X6 helicopter. This remotely operated, unmanned, miniature helicopter is designed to carry wireless video cameras and still cameras.

Boost Your Legitimate Home Internet Business With HitTail
Legitimate home internet business owners know that to be successful, you need a lot of targeted traffic coming to your website or blog. This is not rocket science but if you do want to see more traffic, you must first how to make this happen. In this article I will focus on how you can easily improve the natural search results to your home business but not necessarily using your present top keywords.

Are You Taking Care of Business?

Too often, when we say we are "taking care of business", we think about the paperwork, the accounting, the inventory, etc... the trivial things that are important to get done in order for our business to run smoothly and efficiently. While necessary, they are not the most important.

We need to change our thinking about what "taking care of business" means. We need to make sales in order to have a profitable business, and we know without our customers or consultants, we don't have a business. They are our lifeblood, they are what keeps us moving forward, and meeting their needs should be our primary mission.

Without consultants or customers, there are no sales. Without sales, there is no revenue... without revenue, there is no business and we might as well go back and get a j.o.b. It is crucial that we take care of our customers and consultants. CRM (customer-relationship management) is a buzz-word in "big business". Many large corporations have implemented systems and technology to supposedly create customer care. Some have been successful, many have not.

Most of these systems simply give the illusion of customer care, but have failed miserably in actually providing it. How many times have you been through the "round robin" of "press 1 for this" and "press 2 for that", only to spend an hour or more and never actually speak to a live person or get your problem solved? You hang up in the phone in frustration and vow never to spend money with XYZ Company again. This approach to customer care continues to baffle me as to why large companies believe this is effective. How can they possibly think that customer relationships can be created and nurtured by a recording?

Are those who make these decisions that far removed up the "corporate ladder" they can't see this isn't customer care at all and having the opposite effect?

Each and every one of our customers and consultants should be made to feel like they are our most important one. If we don't take care of them, someone or some other company will.

Small and home businesses have an incredible opportunity to take back customer care and relationships the way it is supposed to be. We are in an incredible position to "take care of business". Technology is wonderful. Without technology, there would be no internet and many of us would not be in business. However, there is no technology on this earth that can replace human connections. Technology will never replace our customers knowing that there is someone who truly cares about their needs.

So, how about you? Are you taking care of business?

About the Author:

Patty Gale is a successful entrepreneur who specializes in personalization and customer care for all her clients. She exchanged her suits, hose and heels for working at home in her "jammies" and is on a mission to empower other women to do the same.

She can be reached at: http://www.CommuteInYourJammies.com or http://www.PattysPrettyPaper.com