Has your business received an award or special mention somewhere? Brag about it. It is always beneficial to toot your own horn when it comes to marketing, branding, and reaching new customers. Being recognized by an organization outside of your network shows not only quality, but also gives your business credibility. Think of awards/mentions/endorsements/grants as badges of honor. These are worthy of being displayed in a highly visible place, whether that is on a webpage, [...]

“Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune,” said Jim Rohn, famed entrepreneur and business speaker. The “Get Motivated” seminars can provide these two types of education to help businesspeople across America. Get Motivated is a series of lectures taking place in different cities, featuring first-rate speakers like former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani, comedian Bill Cosby, General Colin Powell, and famed quarterback Joe Montana, to name a [...]

Here at Merchant Resources International we like to stay on top of every online development. That is why we are now on Google +, the social network that has been hailed as “the new Facebook.” It remains to be seen whether G+ will dethrone Facebook as the ruler of online interaction, but for now we are having a great time playing with its features (the games are great). Are you or your business on Google [...]

After a long battle with pancreatic cancer, Apple co-creator Steve Jobs passed away on October 5th, 2011. He was 56 years old, and one of the most notorious entrepreneurs in the world. The life of Steve Jobs is the blueprint for the self-made businessman. He built Apple from the ground up, starting out the company’s operations out of a garage with co-founder Steve Wozniak in Los Altos, CA. They soon built “the first mass marketed [...]

Social couponing is all the rage right now, with shows like TLC’s “Extreme Couponing” and sites like Groupon and LivingSocial rising in popularity. Some merchants report having a bad experience with these types of sites, but they are still favorites with consumers because they allow them to save significant amounts of money in a tough economy. And when something is successful, it doesn’t take long for copies to pop up all over the place. This [...]