Standing out from the crowd is hard to do as a small business. While there are many ways to provide good service, creating memorable service is harder to do. Small businesses tend to lack huge marketing budgets and there’s little chance of competing successfully with large companies in this area….
Some businesses gain traction for one thing or another. They end up becoming stand out businesses, those that seem to provide a higher level of customer service than others do. What makes one business stand out from the rest? And, with that thought, what can you do, as a business…
I’ve wondered for awhile how and why the home service providers industry is fragmented. It seems like the vast majority of home service providers are small business operations Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever…
”Not all renos boost ROI“, an article by Mike Holmes in the National Post. While the title is obvious given they choose the phrase ‘all renos‘, there’s a few practical considerations in the article Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been…
News this morning; Lowe’s has dropped their $1.8 billion bid to buy RONA. RONA shares are down 10% this morning, below where they were before the offer. The offer would have been a premium Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been…
Google places for business provides business owners a free tool to manage how the business shows up across the web. The management of the business profile affects various Google products like Google Search, Maps, Google+ and on mobile devices. Google My Business Services While the primary purpose of Google my Business…
The Schema.org markup is a recommendation by the major search engines to help publishers inform them of the web content. Their web crawlers when they find the markup can use it to better categorize the topic and meaning of the elements of the website. Schema.org covers many topics including things…
In Canada the federal government, in the form of Industry Canada, provides a relatively good business directory. It has a straight forward process with no sales people contacting to upsell you. Its free business directory has a many options to customize your listing, including website URL and product / service…
Why Yellow Pages? The Yellow Pages is a primary data provider to many downstream websites. For instance, if you provide them with your data, they will periodically send the company information to other websites who will add a citation. Yellow Pages also has a free online listing available to promote…
Ever wonder how you could make it easier for your customers to leave a review? If you’re interested in providing a link on a website or in an email that sends the customer directly to leave a review your Google+ profile, follow the steps below. In summary you will do…
