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Inspirational Quotes about Blogging, Websites, and Online Entrepreneurship

The post Inspirational Quotes about Blogging, Websites, and Online Entrepreneurship appeared first on HostGator Blog . Inspirational Quotes for Bloggers and Online Entrepreneurs “The right quote can inspire people to change their ways.” – Zig Ziglar Whether you’re starting your own blog, a new website, or an online store, there are going to be some rough patches, and at times it can be hard to stay motivated. Prevent writer’s block. Stop spinning your wheels. And get going! Kick your motivation into high gear with some of our favorite quotes for bloggers, entrepreneurs, and online store owners. Inspirational Quotes for Bloggers “Write what you know.” – Mark Twain “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” – Sir Winston Churchill “Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in business at all times.” – John Gerzema “These days, people want to learn before they buy, be educated instead of pitched.” – Brian Clark “An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.” – Seth Godin “The paradox is the more info you give away, the more people will buy what you have to give.” – Brian Clark “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” – Benjamin Franklin “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney “If you can learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day.” – Martha Stewart “Content is king, but distribution is queen and she wears the pants.” – Jonathan Perelman “Content is anything that adds value to the reader’s life.” – Avinash Kaughik “Don’t focus on having a great blog. Focus on producing a blog that’s great for your readers.” – Brian Clark “Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.” – Larry L. King “When you brand yourself properly, the competition becomes irrelevant.” – Dan Schawbel “If people like you they will listen to you, but if they trust you they’ll do business with you.” – Zig Ziglar “Content: there is no easy button.” – Scott Abel “Create content that teaches. You can’t give up. You need to be consistently awesome.” – Neil Patel “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs Inspirational Quotes for Online Entrepreneurs “Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours per week.” – Lori Greiner “If you’re looking for the next best thing, and you’re looking where everyone else is, you’re looking in the wrong place.” – Mark Cuban “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates “Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.” – Steve Jobs “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon “The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.” – Seth Godin “Any idea is only as valuable as its ability to solve a problem.” – Sally Hogshead “A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.” – Jeff Bezos “Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton “Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.” – Dennis Waitley “Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand and the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.” – Henry Ford “The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and actualizer. He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.” – Robert L. Schwartz “Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.” – Seth Godin “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein “If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.” – Jeff Bezos “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” – Guy Kawasaki “A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is – it is what consumers tell each other it is.” – Scott Cook “No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.” – Andrew Carnegie “Give them quality. That’s the best kind of advertising.” – Milton Hershey “I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.” – Elon Musk “The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven’t given them anything else to care about.” – Seth Godin “You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.” – Jack Ma “In every success story, you will find someone who has made a courageous decision.” – Peter F. Drucker “My best advice to entrepreneurs is this: Forget about making mistakes, just do it.” – Ajaero Tony Martins “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford Inspirational Quotes for E-Commerce Site Owners “Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend.” – Mark Zuckerberg “You can’t wait for customers to come to you. You have to figure out where they are, go there and drag them back to your store.” – Paul Graham “E-commerce leaders will have to keep with these changes (and others) to survive and stay ahead.” – Linda Bustos “Learn as many mistakes about what not to do while your business or product is small” – Daymond John “People don’t buy what you do; they buy why do you it.” – Simon Sinek “In e-commerce, your prices have to be better because the consumer has to take a leap of faith in your product.” – Ashton Kutcher “Don’t obsess over data as a tool, obsess about the future.” – Jeff Beaver “You can have an assertive culture without trampling people’s sprits.” – Jill Layfield “Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community.” – Meg Whitman “Customer service shouldn’t be just a department; it should be the entire company.” – Tony Hsieh “If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.” – Jeff Bezos “Stop selling, start helping.” – Zig Ziglar “Overall the web is pretty sloppy, but an online store can’t afford to be.” – Paul Graham “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates “The reason it seems that price is all your customer’s care about is that you haven’t given them anything else to care about.” – Seth Godin “Amazing things will happen when you listen to the consumer.” – Jonathan Mildenhall   Hopefully, the quotes above will bring you an added dose of inspiration for your new online venture. Any quotes we didn’t mention above? Share your favorites in the comments below. Find the post on the HostGator Blog Continue reading

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Customer Testimonials: Why Your Small Business Needs Them

The post Customer Testimonials: Why Your Small Business Needs Them appeared first on HostGator Blog . Why Customer Testimonials Matter for Small Business Prospective customers want to know what other people think of your business before they hand you their cash or their card number. That’s where customer testimonials come in. Done right, testimonials on your website and social media channels provide social proof, raise conversion rates, and even help promote specific products or services you offer. Here are some best practices to make sure your hard-won testimonials work hard for you. How Testimonials Help Your Business First, what is social proof, and why does your business need it? Social proof is a fancy way of saying that we humans like to know that other people have had a good experience with something before we give it a try. Think about your own habits – when you’re trying to choose which product to buy online, do you go with the one with no reviews or the one with a dozen mostly positive reviews? Objectively speaking, your choices may be more or less equal, but you probably choose the one that other people have chosen, because it seems less unfamiliar. The idea behind social proof may sound vague, but marketers can and do measure its impact. One business case study found that adding properly formatted testimonials to a company’s homepage boosted the conversion rate by 34 percent . (Testimonials aren’t the only way to strengthen your business’ social proof. Learn more ways to leverage social proof for your site .) Getting more customers to contact you or buy your products is one way to use testimonials, but you can also use them in more specific ways. For example, if you’re launching a new product or service, testimonials from preview users or beta testers can help overcome that natural human reluctance to be the first to try something new. Keep in mind that there are some ethical guidelines for sharing testimonials from people who tried your stuff for free, which we’ll go over below. You can also use testimonials to raise interest in specific products or services that offer quality but aren’t selling as well as your other offerings.   How To Get Customer Testimonials Getting testimonials from your customers sounds easy—just ask—but some requests are easier than others, so start with those. If you get great feedback via email or on social media from one of your customers, thank them and ask if you can use it on your website. Most of the time, they’ll say yes. You can also embed positive customer reviews from third-party sites like Yelp and Google on your site and let them serve as testimonials, and you don’t need to request any special permission to include those on your site. There’s also straight-up asking your best customers if they wouldn’t mind writing a testimonial for your site. If you have a good working relationship and they’re naturally expressive people, they’ll probably agree to share their feedback. Make your request something short and sweet like, “I’m inviting my best customers to write short testimonials about our widget/service for our website. If you’d like to contribute, I’d really appreciate it.” Be sure to thank them for their time, too. As we mentioned above, you may have preview customers or beta testers for a new product or service, and you can use their testimonials with their permission. However, to stay on the right side of ethics and Federal Trade Commission rules, you must disclose it if the people providing your testimonials got a discount, a free trial, or anything else in exchange for what they’re writing about.   4 Ways To Make Your Customer Testimonials Even More Effective Getting testimonials from clients and customers is just the beginning. To get the most value from their comments, follow these best practices.   1. Use names, faces, and places. Prospective customers seek out testimonials, but more importantly, they seek out testimonials that seem real . In an age of bots and online shenanigans, it’s more important than ever to show that your testimonials are from real people. The simplest way to do that is to include their names (full or just first), photos, and city or company—with their permission, of course.   2. Include specific positive feedback. Prospects check reviews and testimonials to see why other people like your business. If you have the best customer service in town, try to get testimonials that mention it. If your products do something none of your competitors do, get a testimonial that says so. And if you’re easy to work with and deliver great value, let one of your customers sing your praises in their testimonial.   3. Keep testimonials short. The best testimonials are only as long as they need to be to share specific positives about your business, so keep testimonials to a couple of sentences at most. That respects your visitors’ time. It also makes it more likely that local prospects who are searching on their mobile phones will see your testimonials and take action—reading short blurbs is much easier than reading long paragraphs on a phone. What if you get a great testimonial that’s more like a story than a blurb and really makes your company look great? Turn it into a case study and level up your marketing.   4. Update your testimonials. A good testimonial can work for your business for years, but it’s a good idea to check your testimonials every now and then to make sure they refer to products and services you still offer. Keep asking for testimonials as your business grows to cover more aspects of what you do. Asking for feedback is also a way to find out what your customers like best and what they’re only lukewarm about. Those are the areas you can work on until they’re worthy of a testimonial, too.   Testimonials Help Grow Your Business Testimonials are just one way to get the customer feedback you need to help your business thrive. Learn more about listening to your customers to grow your business . Find the post on the HostGator Blog Continue reading

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