How much should I charge?

Today, I got asked about one of the most popular questions in starting a business – How much should I charge?
Big mistake!
When I started out, I first surfed the net for competition and I went straight to their “rates” page.  So, then I made a range of lowest to highest rates amongst competition.  I was fortunate [...]

How high do you rank on Google?

We all know that if you don’t rank on the first page in Google searches, most likely many surfers are not going to find your website, but how do you get on the first page of Google?
Search Engine Optimization 101
Well, there are lots of ways to do it that require hard work, but I’ll give [...]

Drive massive traffic to your blog

 
Digg, del.icio.us, reddit, YouTube.  We heard of these but what are they really?  It can get really confusing but the bottom line is that you can use these types of social media marketing programs to drive massive traffic to your blog and here’s how:
Sign up for the next Hubspot Social Media Marketing Webinar on April 9, [...]

Muslim business directories

I was putting together a list of Muslim business directories to sign up to when I thought, hey, my blog readers might like this and want to add their businesses too.  So, here’s the list. Most of them are free to join.
Islamic Finder
Islamic Port
Muslim Directory (UK)
Muslim 411
Tijara Pages (UK)
Muslim Businesses USA
Business Link Directory
Pakistani Community Portal [...]

Are your customers willing to?

I had an interesting discussion today and I’ve been thinking to start a new business based on the premise that people keep coming to me with the same problem about a particular issue so I want to solve it for them – and hey, you gotta love when you can make money off of it at the same [...]

In case you missed it

  
Two days ago, I participated in the Blogging for Business webinar that I really benefited from.  In case you missed it, here are some awesome tips you would want to take advantage of:
3 Keys to Success: 
Reading, Writing and Commenting. 
Hubspot recommends you spend 1/3 of your time on each.  Many of us might think to spend the most time [...]

Narrow does it

 
I’m almost finished rereading the branding books by Al Ries and I’m making some notes.  I’ll tell ya, what a way to make your brand a powerhouse!  There were many amazing guidelines to follow but there was one reoccuring message that kept standing out.  And that was the exact point in branding that many large businesses [...]

Well, it’s their fault!

 
It’s their fault if they don’t want to buy my product!  They really need my product and I don’t know how they are going to survive without it.  I’m so bewildered how people can act so strange.  I go out of my way to spend thousands of dollars creating a product that they NEED and all [...]

Shooting arrows in the dark

 
I used to do this all the time. I thought I knew what I was doing but apparently I didn’t.  Sometimes it worked.  Sometimes it didn’t. 
I’m talking about marketing.
And now I see businesses going through it all the time.  Let’s take a typical example of a Greek restaurant.  When I was young, my family moved to [...]

The ’selling everything to everyone’ syndrome

 
Do you ever notice how thrilled business owners are when they talk about their product or service?  It’s as if they are talking about their own child, their pride and joy.  And that’s great.  But then we move on to whom they are selling it to and sometimes I get feeling that they want to ’sell everything [...]