Why do people visit your website, only to leave a second later? Why do your social media posts get very little response? Many business owners experience these exact situations everyday. Most do nothing to solve the problem, dooming their business to Internet obscurity. Is that what you really want?

What sets apart those who succeed in business is that they don’t adopt certain characteristics or form bad habits that hinder their success. Here’s a list of the top habits unsuccessful people have and what you can do to avoid them.

Continuing our Business Development Series of articles, the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) posed another set of questions to their membership. The question posed discusses the first step(s) in building an online presence. As always, the answers provided can be applied by any business owner or entrepreneur seeking expert advice.

Everyone has an opinion on the right or wrong way to manage your social media efforts and who you should hire to handle it. There are blog posts galore on why and how to hire a social media expert. But what about how and why not to?

Why Do Consumers Read Retail Promo Emails?

Email readers most likely to look at recommendations of products on sale. Listrak found that 72% of US internet users opened and read promotional emails from retailers, and age and gender didn’t play huge roles in whether or not they did.