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We’ll be posting many more case studies within the next few weeks answering the question: How can our New York Virtual Office service help your growing business?

With our virtual office service, you can literally run your business from anywhere in the World and still have a fully operational, fully staffed office in New York. Your business will have a physical office address in an actual Corporate Office Business Center – not an obscure PO Box or made-up suite number in a simple mailbox operation. Hence, if one of your clients happens to show up at our office, they will be … Continue Reading

What Is Online Marketing?

Online Marketing is the interactive process of selling your company, goods or services over the internet. A good online marketing strategy will create a synergy between your company’s business model and sales goals and your overall website appearance and function. Some of the most commonly used online marketing strategies include internet advertising (hyper links and ad banners), the management of a customer data base and email strategies. Using a broad mix of components (see “Social Media”) the purpose of online marketing is to increase brand awareness and generate revenue through sales.

How Is Online Marketing Used?

Online Marketing should … Continue Reading

Today, when you surf the internet you can always come across discussions on topics like that of a social media strategy. Well, this thing is nothing new. This is a remarkable development due to the booming of various social media networks in the worldwide web. Everyone in the world today has become intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with connecting and collecting to friends all over the world through personal accounts in Facebook, which I think is getting more popular than its counterparts like Friendster and Multiply. And most of the brilliant minds in the marketing industry think that there is … Continue Reading

Mobile broadband gateway provider Stoke, Inc. (http://www.stoke.com) today announced that DOCOMO Capital, Inc. and Mobile Internet Capital, Inc. have invested in the company. This represents an extension to Stoke’s Series D funding round, which now stands at $20 million and brings total investment in the US-based startup to $70 million.

DOCOMO Capital is a corporate venture arm of NTT DOCOMO, the world’s leading mobile operator. Mobile Internet Capital, Japan’s leading venture capital company focusing on the wireless communication sector, includes NTT DOCOMO among its main investors.

The funding will be used to support Stoke’s commercial deployments in Asia Pacific, of which Japan … Continue Reading

There are several options for a person to consider when looking getting into the car wash business. Should the person buy an existing business? Should it be automatic-self service or one with a staff of washers? Should you consider a mobile business or a business with a fixed location? Should the business be a hand wash business or equipment oriented? All of these questions must be answered and the potential owner must come to grips with these options. The amount of money the person has available to put into the business will be a determining factor on what way would … Continue Reading

If you have been considering starting your own business, then before you get the ball rolling, you might want to consider doing a search on already developed businesses for sale. Buying an already established business could save you a lot of time and effort. It is considered that already established businesses are less prone to failure than new business startups.

Buying a business is one of the most important decisions you will ever have to make, so it is not something you want to rush into. Take your time and do your home work before you make the financial and emotional … Continue Reading

You can’t control the government, you can’t control Wall Street, you can’t control the media and you can’t make it so that it’s always a sunny summer day. But, when times are tough and those around you are singing doom and gloom, you CAN control on how you act, feel and react. It’s said that you control your life by controlling your reactions to life. And economic downturns are times to keep that thought at the top of your list.

So, your thinking could go something like this: times are tough, people aren’t buying, the cash flow is … Continue Reading

By now you have heard about web-based social networking (Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, etc.) and you have an understanding of what it is. You know people are using it, some with claims of free flowing business opportunities and profitable connections. If you have been daring, you have stepped into the world of social networks, and maybe even established a profile for your business. However, it is likely your business has yet to capture and realize the full potential of your new electronic network.

The typical business will use their social networks as a secondary gateway into the company’s primary … Continue Reading