Net Neutrality, SEO Agency Selection & Fostering Entrepreneurship in Kids
The End Of Net Neutrality – How It Affects Small Business
Net neutrality rules prevent internet service providers (ISP) from discriminatory practices. This means that the ISPs cannot block websites, censor content, control access to services, or engage in paid prioritization schemes. Without net neutrality ISPs can easily negotiate deals with businesses to throttle its network in a way that favors particular content, applications, services, or devices.
From a small business perspective, the repeal of net neutrality has the potential to stifle innovation. The internet granted access for entrepreneurs to think big with the ability to scale with obtain global reach. Pay to play, smaller businesses will have a tougher time growing without giving a cut to the ISP. The larger corporations who have the funds can push their site and services out faster than the rest. In other words, small businesses lose.
Thinking About Hiring An SEO Agency? - Ask These Questions First
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the mecca for businesses small and large. Getting that top rank in Google grants unlimited customers and authority over any industry. It’s enough to get any business owner starry-eyed over what many of the SEO agencies promise. But before you start shelling out dollars for rankings, make sure you find out their strategy by asking these questions before hiring an SEO:
How long will it take to rank on Google?
What is the strategy for backlinks?
Is there on-site optimization that will take place?
What is the local SEO strategy?
How will reporting be presented to show progress?
How much time will you spend understanding our business?
Is there keyword research taking place?
What’s the blog strategy?
Do you have 3 references I can reach out to?
Give Your Kids The Gift Of Business
Want your kids to develop entrepreneurial traits such as passion, creativity, and resilience? This year give them gifts that encourage them to learn, solve problems, and work as a team.
Sports – No entrepreneur can do it alone. Signing your kids up for lessons in a team sports will teach them how to work together towards a common goal while being challenged to learn new skills.
Children Business Fairs – Events like the Acton Children’s Business Fair hold one-day marketplace that allow kids 6 to 14 to sell products and services of their own invention from booths. These mini-farmers markets get kids to think creatively and develop an understanding of how business is transacted.
Board Games – Games like Disruptus, Pit, or the ever popular Settlers of Catan are both entertaining yet educational. Acting as marketplace simulators, these games will expose your child to the basics of economics.
Tinkering Kits or Workshops – Many kids learn better by doing rather than sitting in a classroom listening to the teacher lecture. Giving your child a tinkering kit or sending them to a workshop will spark their creative juices as they get experience building and problem