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Where: 8145 Main Street, Woodstock, GA 30188
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When: May 10, 2018
Time: 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
For: Downtown Woodstock Business Social
Come join us for a business social gathering to meet with anyone who is currently doing business or interested in doing business in the Woodstock area.
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Looking forward to seeing you at The Main Event!
Addressing these “big picture” errors ensures your company’s long term success.
Looking at housing trends in a random segment of Atlanta can reveal much about the target audience of a secondary industry. From Real Estate Statistics, we can take a random month and see the following:
To a Realtor, depending on how many Realtors there are in this given area, this might indicate a wealth of opportunity. On the other hand, it may indicate the pickings are mighty slim.
To funnel down further, to the local Mortgage broker in that given area, specifically not one who is affiliated with a bank or major lender, like Chase Mortgage for one example, it provides a clearer scope.
Alpharetta: In January 2017, 124 (+0%) homes sold in Alpharetta at an average sale price of $372,053 (+8.1%).
The average days on market was 63, down from 70 a year ago. The number of new listings decreased 12.1% to 225, putting the number of total active listings in Alpharetta at 464 (+0%). In February, the average list price in this area rose to $494,168 (+4.2%), at a price per sq/ft of $158 (+9%). Metro Atlanta Home
To a Realtor, depending on how many Realtors there are in this given area, this might indicate a wealth of opportunity. On the other hand, it may indicate the pickings are mighty slim.
To funnel down further, to the local Mortgage broker in that given area, specifically not one who is affiliated with a bank or major lender, like Chase Mortgage for one example, it provides a clearer scope.
We can use statistics again to discover:
Only 25% of buyers who got mortgages turned to their agents for referrals to mortgage lenders; and the internet to investigate financing options. Zillow Group
This translates to:
124 homes sold in the area and 25% of these will use Realtor referrals to find a Mortgage company.
Are you in the zone with them? Offering the right tools?
As you see, this is quiet an extensive process, but very focused and no doubt, statistically, you will come out ahead!
Article researched and copy written by Laughing Fox Designs, providing results driven website development and social media actions to start-ups, small businesses and mid-size companies. ©2017 All Rights Reserved
A poll conducted by Emarketer.com found that:
There is good news for them though as Brad Semp, social media professor at Kennesaw State University of Georgia says:
Brad goes on to point out that you need to remember that when considering hiring a company to post for you, even the best of companies will have a difficult time replicating your voice and will not have the ability to engage with your audience as you do, answering questions and responding to content appropriately.
Article researched and copy written by Laughing Fox Designs, which exists to provide web design and social media support to small businesses that need creative solutions. ©2017 All Rights Reserved
Amazon has invested heavily in advanced algorithmic recommendation capabilities which personalize everyone’s shopping experience. The effect is a whopping 75 percent of consumers feel no other online retailer can personalize or offer convenient shopping experiences better than Amazon .
One of the biggest driving forces Amazon includes is its Prime subscription which offers unlimited two day shipping, video streaming, music streaming, unlimited photo storage and more for $99 a year. This breaks down to a measly $8.25 a month, making its services and platforms affordable to even the most cost conscious citizen.
Ever keen to sharpen its competitive edge, Amazon confidently continues to surge in this Digital Age. It is serious time for small business and proprietorships to begin to use and benefit by using the marketing giant to leverage their own niche in the market.
Article researched and copy written by Laughing Fox Designs, which exists to provide web design and social media support to small businesses that need creative solutions. ©2017 All Rights Reserved
FlexJobs estimates project that 50% of people will work remotely by 2020.
As the world is changing, business trends for are anticipated to continue to cater and mold to the ideas of the new millennial led workforce, who according to Forbes, will comprise 75% of the workforce by 2025, (only 8 years from now).
Remote work continues to soar as technologies, video conferencing for collaborating and cloud services make it easier and more efficient.
Since customer service, social media, programming and many other positions only require access to a computer and Internet, it’s a no brainer for talented and tech savvy millennials to be hired for these positions no matter where they live.
Adding to the rise of remote employees is startup companies evaluating the old brick and mortar building concept, which can lead to much higher startup costs, against virtual models that are accelerating in the global marketplace with success.
Interesting Stats about Remote Work
Article researched and copy written by Laughing Fox Designs, which exists to provide web design and social media support to small businesses that need creative solutions. ©2017 All Rights Reserved
Well into 2017, this is a perfect time to review your small business current marketing strategies and renew your marketing efforts!
Whether you have all the time and money in the world or are stretched for time and on a shoe string budget, we have several marketing tactics you can implement to boost your marketing strategies!
Stop and look around. At any given moment what do you see? Everyone has a smartphone or android in their hands, or at the very least, in their pockets. Most are not even talking on the phone…but texting. Even the most dated phones can send and receive messages!
Forbes Magazine reports that JPMorgan Chase offered to eliminate voicemail for thousands of employees who don’t interact with clients directly. 65% took the offer which resulted in over $3 million in annual savings for the company. In a similar move, Coca Cola employees reported only 6% of their employees decided to keep their voicemail service.
Most workers under age 40 have long relied on email, texting, instant messaging and social media to communicate with others BOTH on the job AND in their personal lives.
This declining phone call exodus is led by millennials (usually defined as people born between 1981 and the early 2000’s), who according to The Wall Street Journal, feel phone calls are an interruption to production and prefer to only take scheduled calls. The new etiquette seems to state that calling someone to interrupt their day can make it seem as if you are prioritizing your own needs over theirs.
Usher in the new era of communication!
By including the option of text messaging with your customers you are incorporating the interface of the future and staying open to the new flow of trending customers.
Texting is the most widely and frequently used app on a smartphone.
Over 80% of American adults text, making it the most common cell phone activity.
90% of all text messages are read in less than 3 minutes of being received.
It takes the average person 90 minutes to respond to email, but only 90 seconds to respond to a text message. (CTIA)
79% of companies believe customers want SMS/text support. (ICMI)
80% of people are currently using texting for business. (eWeek)
Article researched and copy written by Laughing Fox Designs, which exists to provide web design and social media support to small businesses that need creative solutions. ©2017 All Rights Reserved
A familiar trap for businesses to fall into occurs around profits. It’s a relatively simple metric – it even has its own financial statement devoted to it.
On top of that, many of the performance criteria for bonuses and pay raises are tied to it.
The trap comes when profits are not considered in relation to something on the balance sheet.
Companies will quite often have profit goals and look for increases in profit over prior years and possibly even look for increases in profits relative to sales.
Far too often increases in profits have been boosted by increases in capital deployed and although profits might go up, the efficiency at which additional capital is committed is decreasing and thereby reducing the competitiveness of the business.
When you really want to give yourself an operating hurdle (and you should) – always look for a metric combination that crosses between the P&L and the Balance Sheet.
Do Not: