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.
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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.
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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?
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Rado Lang is a freelance writer who writes mainly on landing page design and testing, Web 2.0, Internet marketing and search engine optimization.
Is your conversion rate very low? Do you face problems converting your traffic even after spending lot of money in PPC and writing great ad copies? Then you should start thinking about your landing pages.
A landing page is one of the most important and most neglected parts of online campaigns. It is the first page that a visitor is going to see on your website. Hence, the success of your online campaigns is highly dependent on your landing pages. The following are 8 Tips to Boost Low Conversion Rates of Landing Pages.
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Today, as you are reading this, I am probably taking a chill after a busy weekend of work and study. Are you taking a break this weekend? Or is it still a 7 day work week for you? :p
Do consider taking a break sometimes. People around you like your family members, friends, your employees (because they get to rest 
) and of course, your body, will appreciate it. By the way, you are also opening yourself up for ideas by taking a rest.
In this week’s Weekly Biz Buzz, we are going to look at a reminder on why your business should embrace social media TODAY, a useful list of email copywriting tips and for those who are new to networking, a step-by-step networking guide together with do’s and don’ts.
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David King, an Internet marketer focusing on social media marketing agreed to do an interview with me, where we chatted about social media marketing and David shared a lot of tips in regards of that, especially on Facebook and Twitter.
Something that made David stood out as an Internet marketer is the fact that he runs a weekly live show. This allows him to gather a loyal audience and follower base, which is in line with his other social media marketing efforts.
In this interview with David King, we touched on a few important areas which small business owners and entrepreneurs should pay attention to when it comes to social media marketing and David also offered a lot of tips which you will definitely enjoy. Let’s check out the interview that we had!
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Wayne Liew is an online marketing consultant, online marketer and editor of Wayne Liew Dot Com. 
