{"id":70793,"date":"2013-05-02T17:08:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T21:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/?p=70793"},"modified":"2016-12-08T16:56:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T21:56:49","slug":"15-business-trends-to-avoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/15-business-trends-to-avoid\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Business Trends to Avoid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Small businesses hear about trends all the time. In theory, a lot of them sound like great ideas to boost sales or add traffic to your site. But, which ones actually work?<\/p>\n

Patience always works.<\/p>\n

There’s no harm in watching and waiting to see which trends pan out.<\/p>\n

To keep yourself from wasting valuable time on flashy new fads, check out the advice from fellow entrepreneurs in\u00a015 Business Trends To Avoid This Year<\/a> from the Mike Michalowicz Blog:<\/p>\n

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  1. Avoid Outsourcing Your Social Media\n

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    Courtesy: Rolland Ecospirit<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n

  2. Facebook Is The Big Trend To Avoid<\/li>\n
  3. Avoid Making Your Own Mobile Apps<\/li>\n
  4. STOP \u201cProblem, Agitate And Solve\u201d Marketing NOW<\/li>\n
  5. Avoid The FREE Trend<\/li>\n
  6. Avoid Over Optimizing<\/li>\n
  7. Avoid Trying To Go Viral<\/li>\n
  8. Avoid Crowdfunding<\/li>\n
  9. Avoid National Expansion<\/li>\n
  10. Avoid Mobile Websites<\/li>\n
  11. Avoid The YouTube Craze<\/li>\n
  12. Avoid Daily Deal Sites<\/li>\n
  13. Don\u2019t Implement QR Codes<\/li>\n
  14. Avoid BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Policies<\/li>\n
  15. Avoid Gamification<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Via Mike Michalowicz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Small businesses hear about trends all the time. In theory, a lot of them sound like great ideas to boost sales or add traffic to your site. But, which ones actually work? Patience always works. There’s no harm in watching and waiting to see which trends pan out. To keep yourself from wasting valuable time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voip-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70793"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204133,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70793\/revisions\/204133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}