5 Ways to Reduce your Business Costs

1. Cheaper Rent

One of the ways small businesses have chosen to reduce their business costs is by reducing their rental costs. Moving out of the downtown area can reduce business costs, move the business close to the business owner's home and make the business more accessible to clients and employees. Small businesses that are located outside of major metro centers may suffer some small inconveniences but they will also find that their costs go down tremendously and that traffic is no longer an issue. Businesses can also make more inventive rental choices such as going for an older building with a remodelled interior. If you need to occasionally do business downtown you can always lease a fully equipped executive suite in San Francisco.

Tips for Helping Your Small Business Thrive in The Big Apple

The Big Apple is a great place to start a business because there is a lot of opportunity in this city. However, if you want to grow your business, then you will have to put in
a-lot of work.

Below are some tips that will help you grow your small business:

5 Tips for Managing Your Business' Social Media Presence

It is no secret that in order to be as competitive as possible today in virtually any industry you need to have an online presence.

Doing so allows you to spread your brand in a way that has been shown to be not only effective, but inexpensive as well. With that being said, being successful online is not as simple as just setting up a website and a few profiles, and you need to have at least a basic idea of what strategies work.

 Social media is an especially popular way of marketing a business today, and below are a few tips for how to manage your social media profiles in a way that will benefit your business.

A Comprehensive Visual Guide to Pinterest Image Optimization [Infographic]

Do your blog get significant amount of traffic from Pinterest? If not, you’re missing the potential good amount of traffic from Pinterest. Why not consider to optimize your site's images for Pinterest to maximize visibility? 

From uploading an image to optimizing your pinboards, keep in mind the tips in this cool and informative infographic by Avalaunch Media below so you'll get most out the power of your pinned images:    

 See also: The Art of Getting Retweets [Infographic]  

Paulo Coelho's Top 10 Tips for Writing Well [Infographic]

Yep! Here's my first self-made infographic.

The graphic is about my most favorite and, which I think, my most successful blog post, as of today, "Paulo Coelho's Top 10 Tips for Writing Well". Inside are the ten remarkable quotes about writing from the international best selling author, Paulo Coelho.

Thanks to infogr.am for making life easy to create cool infographics for non-graphic artists, like me!

Without further, enjoy! =)

Six Terrific Twitter Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic

Twitter is always a great place for bloggers to connect and engage with their audience, not to mention can increase your blog traffic – if you know how this social network works.  

If you haven’t getting any significant amount of traffic love from Twitter, here let me share six simple tactics I learned:

1.Maximize the power of your tweet button

You probably already have a tweet button or two in your blog. Usually, it’s recommended to add tweet buttons are below the headline and at the end of the content. You can also have one if you’re using floating vertical social sharing buttons on the right side of your blog as long it doesn’t make your content hard to read.
On the other hand, based on my observation, it’s better to use the official tweet button than a third-party social sharing services. It’s because it responds faster and shows tweet counts more accurately. The best thing is it’s easier to set your Twitter username and hashtag.

Stephen King's 13 Timeless Lessons On Writing Well [Infographic]

As the world knows him, Stephen King is one of the most admired, respected and successful book authors of all time.
So back in 2002, when he published a new book, in contrast from his horror and fantasy novels, he shared his story on how he started as a writer and what he believes about the craft itself; “On Writing” has become the most popular book about writing ever written.
In case you haven’t (or had) read the book, below is a cool infographic about the 13 lessons learned from Stephen King’s “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft” from HowToMakeMyBlog.com, which I think will always be helpful on doing and loving the art of writing, not only for aspiring and successful writers, as well as for bloggers:

See Also: Paulo Coelho's Top 10 Tips for Writing Well