This is a guest post from Natasha Murashev, a former FBI agent turned Googler who is now learning Ruby on Rails and working on her own startup.
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Late last year, we decided it was time to find ourselves a real office. This was a big step in the annals of FeeFighters, because we’d never had our own office…we just shared coworking space or worked from home. So, Sheel and I started our Epic Office Search. Here’s what I learned: Read more
The way you set your prices can play a large role in determining the success of your business. Charge too much and you’ll be stuck with a large inventory and no customers, and charge too little and you’ll have tremendous sales—but no cash flow. If you’re experiencing one of the two, here are three signs that you might need to rethink your pricing structure. Read more
First it killed the radio in 80s and now it’s changing the face of online marketing. Video is the way of the future for marketing your brand online and if you still haven’t taken the plunge, it’s about time you do. Video will helps build an audience, extend your reach, and even increase conversion rates for your brand. Here’s five steps to making online video work for your brand. Read more
Study after study shows that more and more people will shopping online this year, and that means that if you have a website, it had better be primed for business. Luckily, it’s not too late to do some quick fixes that will make it easier for people to buy from you. Here are three things you can do today in order to prepare for holiday sales. Read more
I meet with a lot of folks who want to do a startup. They tell me they have ideas every day and they wonder….”Which idea should I pick?” Luckily, I have the same problem and am constantly thinking of businesses whenever I encounter issues. Read more
With all the chatter about consumer spending over Black Friday weekend, my thoughts turned to small businesses. More specifically, small businesses and credit card processing (are you surprised?). With a great influx in slaes over the holidays, I wondered how much extra small businesses were paying in unnecessary credit card processing fees? Read more
Say PCI Compliance and most business owners will shudder. For ecommerce companies, there is an easy way to get PCI compliant using Samurai via our Javascript integration. Click here to watch a video of Sean explaining exactly how it works. Read more
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about how to get the most from HARO. HARO, help a reporter out, is a tool that journalists use to get sources for stories. If you didn’t think my advice was timely, check out this unusually long request from a top small business blogger looking for a source for Small Business Trends: Read more
Procrastination is something we all battle no matter how organized or motivated the person. Even those who never miss a beat at work likely have a few projects at home that could use their attention. Because the Internet, TV, and cell phones are the biggest enablers to our procrastinating ways, it only make sense to use them as a preventative measure. Here’s a step-by-step approach to attacking a project with technology on your side. Read more
In my last post I talked about why you should leave your corporate job and join a startup. In this post I want to talk about how you can get a job at an awesome startup like FeeFighters.
Outright, online accounting software for small businesses, seeks to streamline business accounting. How are they different from other business accounting sites? Let’s take a look.
Lots of times FeeFighters users ask us what a personal guarantee is and when/why they have to sign on. This week’s kick addresses that issue as Sean talks the basics on personal guarantees.
FeeFighters recently spoke at a utility conference about how its participants can save money on credit card processing. After analyzing one of the participants’ credit card processing statements, we realized they could save 25% or about $30,000 annually on their credit card processing fees.
Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour. My task: inspire students to consider becoming entrepreneurs. One of my pieces of advice was to expand professional social networks by joining LinkedIn.
We were having lunch with our friends Sunir and Mike from Freshbooks, and Sunir mentioned the event SOBCon. I had no idea wtf he was talking about, but he then explained that SOB stands for Successful Online Business.
By the time we talk to business owners, many have been burned by a credit card processor. They reach out because they have been lied to, promised lower rates, and altogether feel cheated.
Many business owners in these uncertain times are looking for a way to turn around their flailing businesses.
We had a great time submitting, organizing, and speaking on our panel on financial institutions and startups. Here are some photos from the event and a great summary from moderator Felix Salmon:
I was reading the New York Times, learning from Thomas Friedman about the myriad of Islamic uprisings that are about to occur and I was presented with the attached ad.
