Link Bait Specific CommentLuv Blog Posts to Market Your Content

CommentLuv is an RSS enabled comment system designed to fetch the link of your latest blog post and add it below your text comment. This has potential for marketing a website or products available for purchase.

Assuming your comment is approved by the site owner, your link will be permanently displayed as a footnote of sorts.

The link does not change when you update your blog; that particular post title will forever be associated with the comment you entered even when your blog feed is updated with new content.

CommentLuv is popular because readers are incentivised to engage and leave comments.

Finance Apps: Could They Benefit You?

Are you looking to get your bank balance in order throughout 2013? If so, a finance app or two might be just what you need.

They’ll help you stay on top of your bills, including home insurance, utility charges and affordable boiler cover and give you the peace of mind you need. Here are a few you might want to check out.

Improve Your Sales Pitch #8: Create a Personal Brand

Each of us carries a personal brand – or to be more specific – a preconception held by others. You ARE your business whether you represent a company and answer to someone else or operate by yourself as both owner and sales department. Branding should not be confused with marketing and advertising. They are different though they do have a relationship.

Think about the message you project when meeting others. Talk is cheap and branding goes much deeper than words coming out of your mouth. A brand can be characterised as a subtle promise or relationship formed between two parties, systematically enhanced and buffed to communicate two important pieces of information:

• Who you are personally.
• What you do.

7 Ways to Make Your Small Business Look Bigger

We live in an age where the empowered consumer constantly agonises and deliberates how to use and spend their cash. Businesses must stand up to increased scrutiny during austere times where prospects are harbouring real or imagined excuses to not do business with you.

Lack of confidence in the economy means some people are chasing a deluded paradigm of the perfect business offering the greatest value at the lowest prices. For this reason being a small business is not always considered a good attribute.

There is only one chance to make a first impression and is usually what makes or breaks a sale. The following tips offer a few thoughts to improve the perception of your small business and deal with some of the objections people subconsciously have.

Top Tips for Businesses Looking to Save Energy This Winter

With the short, and not to mention cold, winter days having well and truly taken hold, businesses up and down the country will be noticing significantly higher energy bills, with lights and heating being used a lot more often.

However, winter doesn't have to be as an expensive a season as it is, and there are a whole range of simple but effective ways to reduce those energy bills.

Credit is an Option with the Aqua Credit Card

In today's harsh financial climate, getting access to credit can be difficult. If you previously experienced some financial difficulties you may now be turned down by lenders because of a default that was noted on your account – even if it was two or three years ago. Records of defaults and CCJs stay on the holder's account for six years, so even if your finances are stable now, companies will be wary of lending to you if you missed payments in the past.

You don't have to have defaulted on a loan or credit card to have your application for credit turned down. The list of criteria for lending is so tough now that even a late mobile phone payment could lower your score. There have even been reports of lenders quizzing loan applicants who are employed by companies that have a disclosed financially unstable status.

5 Tips to Improve Employee's Attitude

The behavior and attitude of employees heavily impacts on the performance of the business. 

Should their attitude towards customers be lacking in any way, there will be obvious repercussions. Customers will complain, their loyalty to the company will reduce and sales will definitely dip.

It is important that the employees behave in a manner that will attract customers and keep them hooked. Professionalism should be maintained at all times and mutual respect observed.

However, in reality these things do not happen. At one point or another, the management comes across employees who behave inappropriately and certain measures have to be put in place to ensure that the intolerable behavior does not spread to other employees.
We share a few tips on how to change inappropriate behavior

Corporate Website - DIY or Outsource?

There’s no question about it: a website is essential for any business. If you don’t exist on the web, it’s like you don’t exist at all. 

Major corporations know this, and that’s why they have elaborate, professional websites. They hire webmasters as part of their staff and pay big bucks to keep their websites regularly updated with new content and running smoothly.

Your business needs a website, too, but can you afford to add a webmaster to your employee roster? If not, you can still hire web designers to create your corporate website for you. Your other option is to do-it-yourself, which can save you a lot of money. What’s the right choice?