Small Business Advice and Entrepreneurship Blog by Wayne Liew
Wayne Liew is an online marketing consultant based in Malaysia, online marketer and of course, the editor of Wayne Liew Dot Com. Wayne blogs about startups, entrepreneurship, small business and marketing. He also interviews budding and successful entrepreneurs. Connect with Wayne on Google+, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Wayne Liew has written 114 awesome article(s).
You were probably pretty fired up when social media first came along. It was an exciting new approach, a lot of buzz was circulating about it, everybody was eager. But now one of the key questions a lot of folks are asking themselves right now is: “If social media is such a powerful tool, why did my first campaign fail?”
We analyzed the most common mistakes people make when they run a social media campaign and created this checklist to see where you might be going wrong.
{ 2 comments }
If you missed the first part of my interview with Mike Samson, co-founder of crowdSPRING, where he talks about how crowdSPRING successfully raised $3 million in angel funding and shares some important tips that every entrepreneur will find useful down the road, click on the link below to get started.
Mike Samson, Co-Founder of crowdSPRING on Raising Angel Funding [Part 1]
In this second part of the interview, Mike shares with me the secret of building two communities on crowdSPRING and keeping both of them in balance. Towards the end of the interview, Mike also explained the stance of crowdSPRING on speculative work.
Keep reading and I’m sure you have tons to learn from this interview.
{ 1 comment }
crowdSPRING should not be new among web designers but most of us don’t know the founding story behind the site, which is one of the largest crowdsourcing marketplaces on the Internet.
In fact, as a small business owner or an entrepreneur, you must at least pay a visit to crowdSPRING. Here’s why:
Every business needs a refreshing design or copy, whether it is your business logo, letterhead, website, product designs, newsletters, whitepapers or even a brand new banner for a marketing campaign. crowdSPRING, utilizing the power of its designer communities, allows you to adopt only the best design or creative work out of a wide range of work submitted by a large group of creative producers.
This week, I am proud to feature Mike Samson, co-founder of crowdSPRING in a two-part interview series. In the first part below, Mike shared with me how crowdSPRING got started and how he and Ross Kimbarovsky, another co-founder of crowdSPRING, pulled off the stunt of raising $3 million from angel investors to kick their idea off the ground. Enjoy!
{ 0 comments }
Setting up and running an international business is getting easier by the day. In fact, all entrepreneurs and small business owners should start running their business with a global perspective. With globalization and democratization of most international markets, sourcing products and services from another country as well as selling goods and providing services to a foreign consumer market never had such low barriers.
However, depending on the nature of your business operations, your small business that frequently interacts with foreign suppliers, service providers, customers or business connections may be slapped with a huge expenses bill if you are not careful.
Help is here! Here are 10 Tips to Run an International Business Cheaply.
{ 10 comments }
While doing some routine searches on Google today, I noticed a small star appears at the side of each search result item. Popular blogs haven’t got their hands on this and I have no idea whether this is an experimental or a permanent feature.
One thing is for sure though. Google has been introducing a lot of additional features to its search engines to introduce personalization into their search results. Google Starred Results will definitely bring the level of personalization in search to another level.
(Click on image to enlarge screenshot.)
The basic idea is, searchers can now ‘star’ items that appear in search results and when they conduct the search again, all the starred results will appear on top of all other search result items.
What does this mean for search engine optimization efforts? Why should you pay attention to this?
{ 99 comments }
Wayne Liew is an online marketing consultant, online marketer and editor of Wayne Liew Dot Com. [More...]
