An SEO Checklist When Redesigning Your Website

While it’s important to establish a strong online presence for your small business, it’s just as important to keep your site looking fresh. Breathe new life into your business’ website with a redesign, and let your customers know you’re continuously working to deliver the best online experience. Just don’t ignore search engine optimization when you … Continued

Five Keyword Tools to Help Online Marketing

The most successful online marketing campaigns are the ones that best anticipate the keywords and phrases that potential customers are typing into their search engine. Without the right keywords, there’s no search engine optimization, or SEO, and your campaign isn’t going to get off the ground. If you’re a small business owner who wants to … Continued

7 Steps to Avoiding Online Auction Shipping Failures

So, you’ve decided to sell your merchandise on Amazon or eBay or Etsy. Congratulations and welcome to the Internet! However, there is one thing you need to make sure you do. You have to package the ordered items carefully before you ship them off, because you need to make sure your business does not fall … Continued

Why Should You Incorporate Your Company?

There are many reasons for incorporating but the most important to consider are the benefits of incorporating and the implications that it may have for your business. A quick examination of all the benefits to be derived from incorporating will reveal that the best time is when you are actually taking your startup business from … Continued

Productivity hacks for small businesses

More than most people, small business owners understand the value of their time and how productive they are when working for themselves. Maximizing your efficiency is important: adding just a few minutes of heightened productivity into your daily schedule could add up to multiple days’ worth of quality work over the course of a year. … Continued

Tips for Small Businesses to Reduce Energy

Canadians are marking Earth Day this week, taking time to think about their energy use and working to reduce their impact on our environment. Many of us focus mostly on power use at home, or how we get to and from work. But small business owners can bring about wider change by adopting green, energy-saving … Continued

Your Small Business Tax Questions Answered

It’s April, which means tax season is upon us again. Are you and your business ready? Tax time can be a stressful one for some small business owners, who often have unique and complicated situations with their income. If you’re struggling to make sense of your tax situation, don’t despair. The answer you’re looking for … Continued

Three Tips to Optimize your Google My Business Page

Of the many different social networks out there, Google+ doesn’t always generate the same amount of excitement and engagement as some of others. Even so, more than 300 million people have created profiles on the fast-growing network. And while not everyone actually uses Google+, there’s one thing pretty much everyone does do every day: rely … Continued