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Profile: Ashley Neal

11 Reasons Why Now is the Best Time to Stop Procrastinating and Start Your Own Business
Ever thought about starting your own business but aren’t sure if now is the right time? Now more than ever is the time is to claim your small business portion... read more

Build Lifelong Relationships with Your Customers By Celebrating Their Birthdays
2Looking for a way to build strong relationships with your customers while leaving a lasting impression on them? Take the time to create ways to celebrate their birthday. Birthdays are... read more

Need More Sales? 7 Tips to Generate More Sales for Your Small Business
Sometimes finding new prospects can be a tough job for a small business owner that already has several other hats to wear. My favorite approach is creatively marketing to current... read more

4 Tips to Give Your ‘Real Life’ Social Networking a Boost
Social media has made it easier to market to both national and international end users with just a click of a button. But it is important for small business owners... read more

Meet Nellie Akalp, CEO of CorpNet and Trailblazer in Small Business
Nellie Akalp, the CEO CorpNet —an online legal business document preparation service, is a trailblazer in the small business world. She has helped more than 100,000 small business owners protect... read more

Beat Your Competitors By Going Local
Having a strong local presence on commonly used search engines such as Google and Yahoo is vital to your business’s health. Simply put, local potential customers need your products or... read more

Is Your Blog Content Flabby? 8 Surefire Ways to Give Your Content Muscles
Is this you? You’ve heard all the craze about content being king online and it will help you to increase sales and stay ahead of the competition, so you did... read more

10 Fastest Growing Industries for Business Ownership
1Ashley, I’m a single mother of three looking to get into business for myself. I’m sick of working for other people and I believe it is time to ‘spread my... read more

7 Tips for Networking Effectively
Many small business owners look at networking as a painful task, but in reality it doesn’t have to be painful. In fact when done correctly, networking can be a great... read more

17 Ways to Rock Your Biz…from the Experts
Recently, I wrote an article title, 13 Ways to Rock Your Business into the Spotlight for BizSugar’s ‘Rock Your Business’ Contest. After writing it I began wondering, what would some... read more

Going Local with Your Small Business Blogging
1Not all companies need to focus on the worldwide stage. As a small business I have found it can be far more beneficial focusing on my local community rather than... read more

How to Get Retweeted As Often As Possible on Twitter
1When you tweet about your business or your website content on Twitter, how often does it get retweeted by one of your followers? Twitter is a social media “micro-blogging” platform... read more

How To Keep A Time Journal To Improve Your Productivity
Most people feel that there are not enough hours in a day to do the things that they want and need to do. They also tend to be surprised at... read more

13 Ways to Rock Your Biz Into the Spotlight
In today’s business world, it is important to stand out —in fact it is the most important thing. Having an excellent product or service are also very vital as well.... read more

The Perfect Home Based Business Opportunity: ‘Celebrate Home’ and Build Communities
Have you scoured the Internet looking for the ideal business opportunity, but never pursue any of them because: (a) the ‘perfect’ opportunity costs too much, (b) don’t want to waste... read more

