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Social Media for Small Businesses


Are you ready to finally connect with your core consumers? If you still haven’t taken advantage of social media for your services and products, then start now; it’s easy to get started, and the benefits you’ll get far outweigh any of the troubles you might come across.

In recent years, social media marketing has become much more popular thanks to how easy it is to connect with a specific demographic with little cost and difficulty compared to the ways of old. Small businesses especially find this form of marketing has a huge impact on sales.

Why Social Media for a Small Business?
As the owner of a small business, you already know that limited resources are a problem with the amount of work you need to do. Using the standard routes for marketing can further hinder that progress as your funds rapidly dwindle from upkeep. Social media, on the other hand, doesn’t really cost much at all and ensures you hit the target demographic, making sales that much more likely.

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Garnering For Small Business Funding In 2014


You need funding to keep your business moving in the right direction, but you cannot get all that business funding alone. You need help from a company that specializes in funding small businesses, and you need to understand the many ways you can request these funds. Think about what you want to do this year with your business, and make sure you choose the right method to keep your business solvent.

Construction Funding
You can request funds to do construction for your business. You can use the funding to build an addition to your office, build a new structure or make improvements to your office. These construction loans often have different terms than traditional small business loans.

You will need to submit plans for the construction you want to do, and you will need to show why you need to complete this construction project. If you are prepared before you complete the application, you will be able to get your loan application to go through easily.

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Preparing For The Holidays

When the winter holidays get close, your business needs to ave seasonal items to sell in the store. Your business may not be the type of business that adapts to the holidays very well, but you want to use the holiday spirit to make a few extra sales. As a small business owner, you need to make choices that work with your current stock. Also, you need to make choices that will profit your business greatly.

Candy
Everyone loves candy, and you should not be ashamed to sell candy in your store. You can put candy by your registers to help encourage impulse purchasing, or you can bring in a special type of candy that is quite expensive. People who visit your store may buy this candy when they are in the store simply because it is so nice. These are unexpected profits for your business, and the profits are easy to merchandise.

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How to Prepare for Back to School


Soon, the days of back-to-school shopping will be upon you. Since school wrapped up for the summer in June, your shelves have not seen much depletion of books, pencils, pens and the like, but you know that will all change shortly. You can plan for this major surge of customers starting now.

Don’t Waste Time
Advertisements for back-to-school shopping are already in the circulars and online. Also, plenty of shops have already started with their sales, so you need to start on your efforts as soon as possible. Developing new marketing campaigns is at the heart of this plan. Decide what the crux of this year’s sales will be. For example, you might want to use the basic premise of an old campaign, but expand it to include new technologies or styles of teaching. Reaching out to your target audience is crucial to do right now since other businesses already doing it.

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Why partner with BCC?

Photo Credit: Kathy Drasky

Photo Credit: Kathy Drasky

As the financial industry continues to recover and re-strengthen itself following the financial crisis of the last decade, multitudinous opportunities have been presented to individuals with finance backgrounds. The global economy — despite its capricious nature — has set the stage for many people who lost jobs during the financial crisis to totally reinvent themselves. One way that many individuals from the finance world re-entered the market was as finance and funding consultants for small to mid-sized business. These experts or funding brokers are able to advise businesses on the best way to acquire the funding they need to expand or buy necessary equipment.

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