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The Safety and Security of Online Faxing
Feb 29th
The telephone changed the world and birthed a new way of doing business. When transmitting documents via those same phone lines first arrived on the scene, it was almost like witnessing magic. In the late 1980s, the squealing sound of the facsimile machine – or “fax” machine – became part of the modern office’s background music. We had entered a new age of speed and convenience in document sharing.
Soon, nearly every office was using the new-aged tool to receive nearly 1 page per minute, even if they needed to send something halfway across the world. Contracts, proposals, and other very important and time-sensitive documents were no longer delayed by the limitations of postal or courier services. The pace of business quickened even more.
Now, new technology has brought us even further. The fax machine of the past millennium required a complex system of printing, scanning, transmitting, receiving, and then reprinting. These machines are quickly becoming a thing of the past with the advent of online faxing. You may now send and receive documents via your laptop, notebook, and even your smartphone – anything with an Internet connection. Not only is this method infinitely more convenient, it is much safer and more secure.
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Speedier and Safer
Instead of waiting for the call, the download, and the eventual printout, you may now use online faxing to receive a PDF document via email. You may choose to print and/or save the document from that point, depending on your needs. If you fax a document, it no longer has to be printed, delivered to the machine, dialed out, scanned, and sent because you send it directly from your Internet-linked device. No more looking for phone numbers, dialing a “9” to get an outside line, or waiting for a machine to kick in; the moment your fax completes, it’s available to the receiver.
As for online safety? With more reputable online fax services, you can access your account via a password-protected SSL-encrypted website. Some of the better services also offer TLS encryption for email messages so that data-sensitive transmissions are protected.
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No Paper
Fax machines require a paper printout, which wastes paper unnecessarily and can share sensitive data with others. Since most of us don’t have time to stand and stare at the fax machine waiting for our documents, and nearly every office shares 1 machine among several workers and/or departments, the chances are very, very high that any and all paperwork transmitted across normal fax lines will be viewed by others. This does not bode well for anyone working with sensitive information. It opens you up to stolen information at worst and embarrassment at best.
With online faxing services, you no longer must print and scan your documents, meaning that they leave no paper trail and reducing the chance of an important document getting lost or falling into the wrong hands. You can receive faxes 24 hours a day, 7 days per week and probably have less fear about somebody else accessing them.
Not only does having your faxes digitally available facilitate in indexing and storage, but you are also using the protection of your computer’s security software, which is much safer than your office’s wire basket for stray faxes.
No Spam, No Scams
The United States Secret Service has been investigating fraud cases revolving around unsolicited faxes. These scam artists simply blast out their requests to any and all numbers that will accept a fax. Many unwary people have fallen prey to these solicitations and have had to deal with stolen identity issues or lost funds. At the very least, these scams and advertisements are a waste of paper, ink, and energy.
As annoying as fax spam is, it’s impossible to guarantee full protection. However, even if the scammers are getting smarter and are able to use the Internet as well as fax numbers, your spam filtering and that of your online fax provider can help to protect you from their attempts.
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Better Than a Phone Line?
With added features such as API integration, multiple lines, and web-based services, it is also more convenient and often less expensive for businesses of any size.
Online fax services provide speed, cost savings, and value that we didn’t previously see with traditional fax machines. Here’s to technology making a better world – and business environment!
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5 Ways to Use Social Media and Your Online Presence to Drive People Offline
Feb 15th
5 Ways to Use Social Media and Your Online Presence to Drive People Offline
This content from: Duct Tape Marketing
No matter what your business sells, how it sells it or how and where people buy you it, people are going online to find it, pure and simple. That’s as true for those one of kind hand made earrings as it is for the spa and auto repair shop in their neighborhood.
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And, it’s increasingly true for the local insurance provider, landscaper, plumber, attorney and tax professional.
So, what does this mean for the local small business? You’ve got to start thinking about your online presence as a central tool for driving people offline and into your store, sales presentation, meeting, demonstration, appointment or evaluation.
Below are five ways to think about your online activity as an offline opportunity generator.
1) Online calls to action
When people do find and visit your site make it easy for them to use your website to get a free pass, coupon or trial product.
Enable tools like click to call or chat from Olark, so they can get in touch right now and get their burning questions asked
Put a tool like GenBook on your site they can find a time and schedule appointment without needing to call.
Make sure that you have turn by turn directions and links to maps so they can find your business and even send the directions to their smart phone.
2) O2O advertising
Most people run ads to get people buy, what if you thought about your online advertising as a way to simple drive people offline – O2O?
Create local campaigns using Google Adwords that drive people to your website to take advantage of the calls to action, such a the free pass or coupon, that I discussed in the previous point.
Make sure that your Google Places page is complete and compelling and consider the coupon and advertising options available for this tool.
Look into Facebook targeted ads for your calls to action. You can target local Facebook folks all the way down to targeting fans of your competitors.
To make your O2O advertising even more effective create local landing pages for each campaign or even neighborhood you are targeting.
3) Networked networking
Offline networking is still a great way to create and build potential relationships, but you can really amplify this tactic when you add some simple online tactics to your networking efforts.
When you connect offline with a prospect at say a Chamber event, move to also connect online and watch how much faster you can build a relationship.
Employ Social CRM tools like Rapportive or Nimble so you can easily connect the social profiles of anyone you meet to their record. This will make it much easier to learn how to connect.
Look at tools like MeetUp that make it easy to create offline events and gatherings using an online marketing system.
4) Local social groups
Most social networks give you the ability to create groups. Some organizations have had tremendous success by creating and facilitating local, special interest groups on networks like LinkedIn.
The key here is to think “interest group” and not something that’s clearly a promotional tool for your business. If you can create an industry group or some other niche topic that allows your customers to explore and expand an interest they have, you’ve hit on a formula that’s very potent.
5) Online and on the go
Increasingly, our prospects are not only online they are mobile while doing so. There are some very creative ways to take advantage of this fact and drive people with great buying intent offline.
First off make sure you claim your location on sites like Yelp, Facebook, Foursquare and Twitter. This way you can enhance the details and make sure people using geo location services can check in at the right place.
Create and test an offer on a service like Foursquare that can help highlight your business when someone checks in at another nearby business.
Look into the group coupon tools like Groupon, Google Offers or Living Social, but make sure you’re ready to capture the leads these programs produce in a way that allows you to turn a low profit sale into a long term customer.
Think about ways to create check-in games that you could use as part of a promotion. Get a group of strategic partners to participate and offers special deals for people that have checked in at a number of your partners on Foursquare of that take a photo of their purchases at a number of partners and posted it to Twitter or Instagram.
As you can see, the way you can employ this kind of thinking is limited only to your imagination, but there’s no denying the importance and effectiveness of this strategy.
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Online Event Registration with Eventbrite
Feb 13th
At first glance, Eventbrite does not appear to be a small business tool. Most small business owners are not planning events, right? Let’s redefine what an event is and then we’ll see if this tool can help you grow your small business and marketing presence. Events are the secret sauce to good marketing and Eventbrite can help you manage and promote your business. This review is for the small business owner or team member who handles marketing tasks.
I’m defining the term “event” broadly — if you are a small business owner who is meeting with customers or prospects online or in real life (IRL); you are probably managing events or could shift your approach to include more people and make your “event” more productive and profitable. You can produce micro-events, business networking events, or social events, but the best ones are educational and not sales heavy (or sales-y at all).
Tyler Garns (fellow contributor here on Small Business Trends) and I planned a well-attended marketing event last summer and used a combination of Eventbrite and Biznik to pack the room. Biznik has an awesome event “do and don’t” list that includes some advice to leverage Eventbrite when you plan an event as well.
Event management is no easy task, that’s why you need a tool like Eventbrite. Here’s what I really like about it:
- You can create a customized event page (with its own distinct URL).
- If your event is recurring, you can manage that easily.
- The tool generates name badges automatically. A time saver, for sure.
- You can poll your attendees as they register to learn more about their likes, dislikes, shirt size.
- I love that you get a big SEO (search engine optimization) boost from listing your event properly.
Some of the things I’d like to see:
- You can link to Facebook and Twitter, but I’d like the option to link to LinkedIn, too, as that’s where a ton of my (and probably your) business contacts reside. And while it is part of the “My Profile” section, linking to your social profiles is not as obvious as I think it could be. Again, a small point for an otherwise terrific service to small business owners. Once your event is created, they do make it easy to share your event.
If your marketing efforts do not include events because of the logistical hassle, then Eventbrite is worth a close look. The service makes it easy to create, promote, and manage free and paid events.
The pricing is pretty simple: 2.5% plus $0.99 per ticket. Now that might seem a little steep at first glance, but let’s do some fast math: a $10 event will cost you $1.24 to use Eventbrite. Most important, if your event is free, well, then there’s no charge by Eventbrite. That’s pretty hard to beat.
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Your Secret Weapon in the Battle of Online Reputation
Feb 9th
As a small business owner, your online reputation matters. More than you might think. In fact, research shows that a negative online reputation can cost you customers. But, other studies have shown that a positive reputation can actually help you gain them. That’s because 49% of local consumers are more likely to use a business after they read a positive review about a business online.
So, what can you do to build a glowing reputation that helps you stand out to potential customers online?
Turn to your secret weapon: your happy customers!
Unfortunately, people tend to naturally turn to the Internet to share negative feedback about a company.
You know the saying: a happy customer will tell one person, but an upset customer will tell ten.
When you take the time to ask your happy customers to share their feedback, you might be surprised just how big an impact it can have. Many satisfied customers are glad to share their feedback, they just may not know it’s valuable to you as a business to have their reviews posted online. In fact, you may already receive notes, letters, or comments from happy customers. It may just be a matter of giving customers another avenue to share their feedback.
So, here are three ways you can put this idea into practice inside your business:
1) Get Your Team Onboard and Involved
Take time to explain to your staff that your online reputation is an important area of improvement for your business. Get them involved in the process of reaching out to customers to ask for reviews. It’s important to know and share with your team that you can’t pay for positive reviews, but you can certainly ask people to leave them. And sometimes, all it takes is to ask.
Encourage employees to ask customers for reviews every time they have a great customer interaction and recognize your team for their effort when they do.
2) Create and Share a List of Top Sites
When you start focusing on building your reputation online, select a list of a few top review sites you would like to get more reviews on such as Google Places Pages or Yelp. Then, create signage with these sites prominently displayed to serve as a visual reminder of your request. Post signs in your business reminding customers that you appreciate reviews on these sites. You can also create small cards to share with your customers so they can easily remember and navigate to a site to leave you a review.
This can help you develop your reputation on important sites – an important first step.
3) Leverage Current Communication Channels
Another way to encourage customers to leave a review of your business is to use your current customer communication channels to share your request. For example, you could put an article in your monthly customer email newsletter, or post a message to your Facebook fans. The benefit of this is that your customer is probably already at a computer when they see your request. Think about how you currently communicate with your customers and find ways to include this message in a friendly, professional way from time to time.<
These are just three ideas for how you can leverage your secret weapon – your current customers – in building a great online reputation.
Do you currently let your customers know you appreciate reviews online? Have you tried any of these tips? Feel free to share your ideas and thoughts in a comment.
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Your Secret Weapon in the Battle of Online Reputation
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Research Roundup: New Entrepreneurs and Online Consumers
Feb 3rd
January is always pretty slow in business research land and this month has been no exception. So, I’m a few days late getting this report to you but that’s a good thing because I managed to wait long enough for the release of the 2011 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). This is their 13th annual survey and the news was good.
Entrepreneurship: Alive and Well
In 2011, GEM researchers estimate that 388 million individuals worldwide were actively engaged in starting and running new businesses. That’s fantastic because previous research from Kauffman tells us that most net new jobs come from new businesses. And that is borne out by GEM’s numbers: about 36% of these new entrepreneurs expect to create at least 5 new jobs over the next five years. In fact, 16.8% of them expect to create at least 20 new jobs over the next five years.
In the United States, the 2011 GEM entrepreneurship rate is estimated at 12% — this is not much different from what it was ten years ago and it’s a little less than twice the global average. On average, about 17% were necessity driven and 57% or so were opportunity driven, while in the United States, an estimated 21% were necessity driven and 59% were opportunity driven. This is interesting, because it’s not what you’d expect to find, given the job losses over the last couple of years.
I have a feeling that, when the nonemployer numbers for 2011 come out later this year, we’re going to see them starting to recover from the two disastrous years before.
Selling? Selling Online?
A couple of studies on retailing caught my eye this month and both of them offer some interesting possibilities for small businesses engaged in retail.
For starters, the National Retail Federation proclaimed to the world sometime around mid-month that they expect overall retail sales growth to hit 3.4% in 2012. Presumably, before the world comes to an end later this year, a lot of people are going to want to buy things.
According to a survey by The NDF Group Inc., almost half of online consumers have bought books, stationery and office supplies in the last 12 months, making this the most active category for online retail. Must be all those home offices out there. Apparel and consumer electronics tie for second place, each with 46% of respondents saying they had bought in that category within the last year.
This survey also found that 25% of respondents follow a retailer or brand on a social media site and 27% say they’ve bought something because of what they’ve seen there. But another study, this one conducted by Puneet Manchanda of the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, found that the best social media site for your business may be your own.
Manchanda took a look at company-sponsored social networking sites, “using data from an unnamed retailer of books, CDs, and DVDs,” and found that unnamed retailer experienced a 19% increase in incremental revenue from their customers who joined their branded online community. In the community, members can recommend and review products, share favorites lists, make suggestions, and socialize with each other. The researcher also found that customers who were more active in the community, with larger numbers of friends, tended to spend more.
And this survey finds that you get a better return on the investment with your own branded community that you do by simply using Facebook. That will give you something new for you to factor into your online marketing strategy for 2012.
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Research Roundup: New Entrepreneurs and Online Consumers
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