In our Get Social for SMBs series, we’ve explored how to set up a basic website and how to use social networks to build your brand and social presence. Now that you’ve established your social presence, it’s time to add to it by developing a blog strategy for reaching new customers and selecting a platform for your new communications. A blog will give you the proverbial soapbox to tell your story. (Read More...)
Social Media is all about making connections. What better and faster way to tell someone about your business than through beautiful and engaging photos? As they say, a picture is worth 1,000 words so share pictures of your products on the social media photo-sharing platform Instagram to communicate and make new connections. (Read More...)
For the fourth post of our Get Social series for small to medium sized businesses (SMBs), we'll explore how you can use Facebook to put a "face" to your business, gain fans and have friends help spread your message. (Read More...)
Twitter offers a great opportunity to expand and reach a global audience, or focus on local customers and prospects. It's all in the way you design, build and execute your content strategy. Twitter stats show 23% of online adults use Twitter, and 38% of those do so on a daily basis. (Read More...)
This week we continue our Get Social series with best practices for using LinkedIn. LinkedIn is one of the most essential social business channels, with 107 million users in the United States (LinkedIn: February 2016) and offers free communities, groups, job searches, business insights, and other professional tools for businesses of all sizes. (Read More...)
With 56% growth in new business volume year-over-year, Ascentium Capital has been named the #3 Top Private Independent Finance Company in 2015 by Monitor, a leading equipment finance industry publication. (Read More...)
Implementing a social strategy is vitally important to increase online awareness of your business. But where do you start?
To give you some tips for getting started, we'll be posting a series of articles over the coming weeks aimed at helping you get the most out of popular social networks including LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. (Read More...)
In any small to mid-sized business (SMB), there comes a time when your company hits a growth ceiling, decides to expand, or needs to make decisions on equipment or capital improvements. This can be an exciting time for a business, as well as confusing. Most small businesses concentrate on what they do well, and exploring financing options is not a critical priority. One of the first questions SMBs will be faced with when looking to finance equipment is whether to go to their bank or explore alternative lease financing. (Read More...)
