The World Business

Archive for January, 2011

Many big companies build the blog as a complement to the company’s official website. The goal is to more easily interact with consumers, and with a more casual manner. Blogs are also a means to introduce the beginner businessmen products or services. If managed properly, a blog can attract attention to the business, in addition to reaching new customers, and convert existing customers into fans. Take a look at brands like Apple, BlackBerry, or Crocs, they not only make consumers use goods, but also affect people in the neighborhood to participate wear.

However, creating a blog for small business is still not easy. It takes hard work, ability to think creatively about your business, and develop a blog that is read by many fans. If you avoid the five mistakes in the following blog, your chance to build a successful business blog is not just a dream anymore.

Make a blog to announce your product or business, with an original way of writing and more casual. Then, use the blog to write things other than business. Share your thoughts about the industry, how the working life from day to day, and provide tips and tricks to do business based on your experience.

When having trouble finding an idea of what to write, you can invite your team to discuss, or a trip to the mall to observe the behavior of visitors. You can even lure customers to provide input on topics to be written.

Communication should go both ways. Therefore, respond to reader comments, both praise, give advice, or even criticize. Your willingness to be connected with the reader will develop a community, who are faithful will provide quality feedback. You also need to participate in the conversation on other blogs in the same industry. It’s useful to introduce blogging your brand, and reach new readers.

Ever changed jobs? What’s your excuse? Salaries are low, there is no possibility of increasing career, moving residences, or other? Many reasons for someone to stop working. One of them big enough to make an employee decides to stop working is the boss.  A survey published in Colourful Lives Report by the Future Foundation, said 28 percent of workers decided to stop working and find a new place because they want to find someone who can motivate them with a better way.

More than 1 in 10 people who stopped working because of bad bosses, and even find a very different career. While 1 in 20 people decide to start your own business to avoid bad management.

Indeed, like what the hell according to these employees a good figure and the ideal boss? According to them, 83 percent said they should have the openness, a communicator reliable (82 percent), supportive (81 percent), a good leader (80 percent), and someone who respects the staff as distinct individuals (76 percent).  Management or a bad boss has adversely affected the company’s business. Because, when working under a bad boss, employees reported a loss of motivation (47 percent), reduced productivity (28 percent), and often ask permission to avoid labor pain (18 percent).

More than three-quarters of these workers (about 77 percent) think that their bosses do not make them feel attracted to exclude new ideas, or give it a chance to express themselves. Appreciate the ability of workers as individuals and embrace their creativity can make a difference in a very good and fruitful in good work.

U.S. stock market closed lower amid three positive economic data. Market participants consider three data is not enough to withstand potential selling pressure towards the close of this year.  Nevertheless, the S & P 500 rose 6.5 percent this month. Thus, this index is in the best performance in December since 1991.  Earlier, three U.S. economic data (USA) get positive. Labor market reports, business activity and housing all showed surprising strength.

The U.S. government claims for unemployment benefits last week in the year 2010 was down to its lowest level since July 2008, while the report from the Institute for Supply Management-Chicago show in the U.S. Midwest business activity rose to its highest level since July 1988. Home sales data for the period November 2010 that’s delayed to release also increased more than anticipated.

“The figures disclosed are very strong this morning, but people become more careful because this is the end of the year, especially the strengthening of the stock market has experienced quite severe,” said chief investment strategist Bruce McCain Key Private Bank, in Cleveland, Ohio as quoted by Reuters.

Worldwide Inc. is engaged in the business of employment agency its share price up 2.1 percent to USD24, 12 after the unemployment data was released. The Dow Jones U.S. business training and employment agencies index rose 0.3 percent.  In trading Thursday (12/30/2010) local time, the Dow Jones industrial fell 15.67 points, or 0.14 percent, to 11569.71. The broader Standard & Poor’s 500 index dropped 1.86 points, or 0.15 percent at 1257.92. And the Nasdaq Composite Index fell 3.95 points, or 0.15 percent to 2662.98.