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How to Make a Marketing Plan for Your Small Business
At Bluehost, we love small-business success stories, whether the business revolves around pies, food trucks, minimalism, life coaching, or graphic design. If you run a small business or are considering starting one, we want to help you make your business a success story too. For our “New Year, New Business” series, we’ll be providing insights,…
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8 Reasons Why Small Businesses are the Best
By now, you’re used to the triumphs of mega companies and big box stores — you know, the firms that have convinced many of us that bigger equals better. But truth be told, small operations have proven to be the real heroes of the business world. Just check out these stats: Businesses with twenty or…
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A Beginner’s Guide to Using Facebook Live for Marketing
Facebook Live combines the best of both worlds: interactive video and the world’s most popular social media platform. Live-streaming video isn’t new. YouTube and Periscope’s successes confirm what experts have been predicting for years now — videos drive more shares and consumer engagement than text and image content. In fact, studies show that video content…
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PHP 7 Is Now Available for All WordPress Customers
As part of our commitment to WordPress, we recently made the decision to offer PHP 7 as the default for all WordPress customers. This is an exciting announcement — and a step closer to an even more performant platform. We benchmarked the benefits with the new 2017 WordPress theme using Web Page Test, and the results…
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How to Choose the Right Target Market for Your Small Business
As a small business owner, you probably have a general idea of who makes up your customer base, but vague ideas aren’t enough in today’s competitive marketplace. Without delving into the demographic details, you’re basically marketing to everyone and anyone, and this “strategy” could mean wasting your advertising spend and missing opportunities to increase sales.…
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When to DIY and When to Delegate Small-Business Tasks
At Bluehost, we love small-business success stories, whether the business revolves around pies, food trucks, minimalism, life coaching, or graphic design. If you run a small business or are considering starting one, we want to help you make your business a success story too. For our “New Year, New Business” series, we’ll be providing insights,…
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How to Make New Year’s Resolutions You’ll Actually Keep
Whether you’re trying to get healthy, improve productivity at work, or develop a new skill, chances are the new year is motivating you to make a change. Or perhaps it’s reminding you of the all-too-familiar annual cycle of setting — and failing at — your resolutions. Turns out, we’re pretty bad at sticking to our…
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The Internet in 2017: What Changes and Challenges Should You Expect
The holidays are here! And that means we’ll soon be bidding farewell to a year that’s been mercilessly pegged as the worst one ever.And as we look ahead to 2017, there are still a lot of unanswered Internet questions. Will new regulations expand Wi-Fi service and security? What can we expect from augmented reality (AR)…
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Bluehost Blog's 2016 Greatest Hits
From spotlighting customers to offering helpful how-tos, we’ve worked hard to up our content game in 2016. So as we wrap up the year, let’s take a look back at the posts our readers loved most. Here are the Bluehost Blog’s 2016 greatest hits. How This Bluehost Customer Built a Thriving Blog Community (and Landed a Book Deal)…
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25 Great Stocking Stuffers for Small Business Owners
If you know any small business owners, then you also know how busy they are. All year long, they’re juggling sales, marketing, and customer service — and the list just keeps ongoing. Do you have one of these tireless, multitasking entrepreneurs on your gift list? Here are 25 great stocking stuffers for small business owners. Shopping…