Keeping Your Small Business Personality As You Grow
Every business organization has a personality. There are many books and articles about it, but they all make the same statement: The business personality is what the company is about, made up of the firm’s mission and messages, values, environment, corporate culture and its behavior under stress. Small businesses and start-ups develop their personalities based on the founders’ and senior executives’ enthusiasm for the business and their drive for success. Their feelings of purpose and…
Read More »Why You Need the "Right" URL
Most dot-com venture capitalists would confirm that you can’t build a business solely based on acquiring the “right” URL. However, having a URL that properly identifies your company and/or your products and services can truly help you build your fast-growing business. A good URL increases your brand awareness and makes it easier for people to communicate with you. My own company, AnswerNet, owns many URLs. We acquired each URL in one of three ways: …
Read More »When Bad Things Happen to Good Companies
An airliner skids off the runway and catches fire, but all passengers and crew safely evacuated. A software manufacturer releases a new version of a product, and then finds out about serious programming errors that cause it to malfunction. A prestigious college discovers that hackers have broken into its computer system and obtained access to the names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of thousands of people. Bad things do happen to good organizations. Every enterprise…
Read More »Welcome!
Welcome and thanks for stopping by the new AnswerNet Network Blog! For those of you not familiar with us, AnswerNet Network is the world’s largest telemessaging firm and a full service provider of inbound, outbound and e-bound contact center services. We own and operate contact centers located across the U.S. and Canada. We’ve made contact centers, telephone answering services, telemarketing and teleservices our life’s work. And since blogs are often used to share life experiences…
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