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How to Blend SEO and PPC For Increase Profits

July 1, 2014 By Robert Estupinian

A common question many business owners ponder: Do I invest in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) or Pay-Per Click (PPC) paid search advertising? Important question and an essential one for your business to grow. Their intent is simply to invest money and energy into the one form of advertising and lead generation that will give them […]

Filed Under: Economy, Entrepreneurship, Lead Generation, Marketing, Performance, Resources, Small Business Tagged With: advertising for small businesses, business success, marketing, marketing online, online marketing, organic search, PPC (Pay per Click), search engine optimization, seo

Attention Entrepreneurs! You are not crazy!

June 10, 2014 By Robert Estupinian

Entrepreneur? Being harangued for being out of sync when it comes to your business and your ideas? Told that you can’t approach your business that way and that such behavior will lead to crashing your business? That your world view makes no sense? It’s a common malady for entrepreneurs. At some point any entrepreneur begins […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurship, Management, Motivational Tagged With: business motivation, business success, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, Management, small business success

Bay Area Mastermind’s 3 Tips for Entrepreneurs with Short Attention Spans

October 1, 2012 By Robert Estupinian

In a recent interview with renown  psychiatrist Dr. Edward M. Hallowell, he described how many entrepreneurs have some form of short attention deficits.  At first hearing this comment many people would find this alarming.  However, Dr. Hallowell made it clear that this was not entirely a bad thing as it allowed these creative and innovated […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurship, Performance Tagged With: attention, business success, entrepreneurship, focus, mastermind groups, Robert Estupinian, small business, small business success

Bay Area Mastermind mid-year economic review

August 2, 2012 By Robert Estupinian

The View of the US Economy mid year

By Robert Estupinian As we begin the second half of the year we wanted to take a moment and provide our readers with a view of the economy and our forecasts going forward.There is a lot of economic data being spewed out these days in the media. It is not uncommon for the same data […]

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: Bay Area Mastermind, business success, Economy, entrepreneurship, Robert Estupinian, small business profitability, small business success

3 Things You Can Do When You Are Mentally Stalled Out

February 10, 2012 By Robert Estupinian

Every business owner has faced the same frustrating situation, feeling stuck. I’m talking about not seeing how to get through a tough business problem. No matter how much you keep working at it the problem will not go away. For some business owners getting stuck is frightening. Let’s take a look at what can be […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurship, Motivational Tagged With: Bay Area Mastermind, business success, entrepreneurship, Robert Estupinian, small business, small business success

A Quick View of What Is New With Facebook

August 7, 2011 By Robert Estupinian

face book is important for small businesses

In our last post we began to talk about the importance of social media for the business owner.  According to some reports, Facebook currently has more than 750 million users.   Half of these users are on Facebook at least several times a day.  This is one reason that 75% of advertisers are planning to increase […]

Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: Bay Area Mastermind, business success, Robert Estupinian, small business, small business profitability, social media

Social Media for Small Businesses: 6 Effective Strategies

August 4, 2011 By Robert Estupinian

Bay Area MAstermind Helps with Social Media

By Robert Estupinian Social Media has quickly become a very opportunistic way to market a business.  Facebook has exploded into the second most popular website in the world with over 750 million users and half of them log on to the site every single day. Twitter is also in the top 15 on most days […]

Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: Bay Area Mastermind, business success, Robert Estupinian, small business, small business success, social media

Managing Your Business Through a Recession

July 28, 2011 By Robert Estupinian

Meeting with staff

In today’s economy, the small business owner may encounter situations where one or more of the employees’ performances are affected. Because some employees may worry about not having a job a month or two down the road, their focus might not be as clear as compared to someone who had a guaranteed position. And in […]

Filed Under: Economy, Human resources, Management Tagged With: Bay Area Mastermind, business success, Economy, entrepreneurship, Management, recession, Robert Estupinian, small business, small business profitability

Why Having The Best Darn Widget Does Not Guarantee Success in Business

September 30, 2009 By Robert Estupinian

Many times I am asked by clients to review their business model in an effort to help them with their marketing or business development. There are many times that these same clients have actually developed a product that they feel is superior in performance and appearance. When I ask them why anyone should prefer their […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurship, Info-Marketing, Marketing, Sales Tagged With: business success, entrepreneurship, innovate, marketing, small business

Two Things You Need to be Successful in Business (Part 2)

September 2, 2009 By Robert Estupinian

In our previous post we discussed the importance of finding a large starving crowd. The second important element goes hand in hand with the first. This is fully understanding the buying power and buying habits of the market . When you break down all the variables of consumer behavior we find that people buy what they buy […]

Filed Under: Economy, Entrepreneurship, Marketing Tagged With: Bay Area Mastermind, business success, marketing, small business, start business

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