What do you get when you cross a rather boring profession with an ENFP personality type? You get Nicole Fende and The Small Business Finance Forum.

Nicole has managed to take what was once thought of as a boring subject and turn it into something that people are eager to read about. Her witty style and in-depth knowledge of the subject come together to create an interesting and unique balance.

The main goal of the site is to help the reader learn to grow their businesses and their profits. It’s not a “get rich right now” site, but will explain how to make the most out of your money and your business. And unlike most business forums, this one is anything but boring. There are tons of tips and tricks of the trade, and most of all, there’s humor and lightheartedness which makes it easier for the common person to enjoy their stay.

Nicole’s blog posts talk to the regular Joe as much as the well-educated financier. She tells it like it is, adds a bit of humor, and shows everyone that there are ways to keep your money in YOUR pocket and not someone else’s. However her’s are not the only ideas found on the site. She also has a select group of posts from guest bloggers that further enhance the site and the amount of information to be found on the site.

If the blog posts aren’t enough to keep you on track, Nicole has her own Internet radio show on BlogTalkRadio. Each Wednesday she discusses ways to continue to grow your profits, increase your sales, and how to deal with the outside world. If you’d like to get caught up on past episodes, they’re archived right on her radio show site.

The nice thing about Nicole Fende is that she’s not just talking about the business, she’s lived it. Since graduating Magna Cume Laude from North Michigan University, she’s taken on the world…literally. She’s worked for some of the largest financial companies in India, the Philippines, and Hong Kong. And after an exciting life abroad, she decided it was time to move back home and share her wealth of knowledge.

There are a lot of people out there who don’t know how to improve their financial situations or where to go for answers. With the help of Nicole and her group of guest hosts, finding help is easier than ever. Though she may not be able to perform miracles, she can lead you in the right direction toward financial freedom. Read her posts and check out her radio show and start putting your profits in your own pockets where they belong.

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If your company has a website, you might have thought about running a corporate forum, where you could keep in touch with your clients, discuss different aspects of your work, ask for suggestions and share your opinions. Well, if you did, you should definitely start it since forums are very convenient to use for those and many other purposes. Dealing with forum administration myself and working for a company that provides specifically modified forum hosting packages I gathered some information you may find useful. So, let us find out, what those four reasons to run a forum for your company are.

1. Client Community

Creating a community using a forum has always been the easiest way to gather people who have common interests or aim at resolution of common problems. Corporate staff and their customers have lots of common things to discuss, too. Thus, it is advisable to create a less official resource for them, so that everyone could share their views on some business-related topics and have some fun while discussing not that serious ones. The most active clients are usually the ones to care much about the things happening around their business, which means that a community of such people can help you improve your services by giving suggestions, leaving reviews, testimonials and comments. This is very important since many disputable things get revealed during living negotiations. Many threads become testers which underline all pros and cons and help determining drawbacks the company may have in some niche. This also helps potential customers, who are only intended to start using your services.

2. Means of Support

If you run a corporate forum, you can place your company FAQ there. Publishing your FAQ on a forum makes it discussable and helps you figuring out, what should be explained in a more clear manner. Apart from it, any new visitor may have questions that were not yet exposed, so you will know, what else should be highlighted and described.

Making use of a forum as a support area is also reasonable, since there may be some local and not very common issues, known to only some of your users, or just related issues, which are not connected with your service directly, so your staff cannot provide support for those. In such cases your most experienced users may be very helpful in assisting the newbies with something they managed on their own. Additionally, such way of support, provided by fellow forum residents always improves relations and strengthens the community. And if you promote your most active users to moderators, you may also simplify the process of forum administration.

3. Informative and Advertising Channel

Running a forum related to your business creates a convenient and profitable advertising and informative source for you. It enables you to post latest company news and updates and reveal information on promotions, attracting more participants. Additionally, if your forum becomes increasingly popular and you start receiving new visitors – not your customers and not even those, who are intended to become ones, but just the visitors interested in your forum specifically due to the quality content you publish there – they may become eager to try your service or perhaps recommend it to their friends. Thus, if you deal with some business, competitive in its niche, you can post threads on many topics, connected with things your company and your clients are doing. People will come for news around this business, but what they will return for is your service.

4. Intranet Substitution Solution

We all know how great intranet projects are – they allow setting goals, tracking progress, discussing agendas, etc. Well, another thing we know is how resource intensive those intranet-building scripts may be. Thus, if you would like to create some closed area for problems resolution but do not actually need its complete functionality – you may simply create something like a lounge for administrators or moderators and limit user access to it. Using a forum for this purpose also helps community building a lot, especially if you allow your non-staff moderators to take part in some discussions, related to inter-customer communication.

As far as you can see, a forum can provide you with many communication and support options. Of course, some of those can be provided by special software, but in many cases it is way convenient to keep all eggs in one basket. Therefore, if you are interested in creating a friendly community and having your business organized in a better way – start your corporate forum.

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