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These four posts from the LinkedIn blog tagged "small business" provide some great insight into how to use LinkedIn for small business. From optimizing your profile to attract businesses from within and outside your region to helping small businesses reach global clients to changing the way small companies do business to general tips for small b Read More

Stephen Nold lists his top five benefits of social media. I would agree with all of these and add that these benefits result not only from use of big social media and bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon and Digg but also and ESPECIALLY from using niche sites like bizSugar where your chances of being heard and having your submissions ranked highly i Read More

Leave the pain out of selling, you'll find people easier to deal with. Read More

There is one thing I see all business owners who have trouble taking a vacation have in common. Their business runs them, rather than the other way around. Read More

It's possible to put many of your marketing activities (tactics) on autopilot—in fact, I highly recommend it. At least that way you'll be marketing on a regular basis! However, I do have a caveat. Read More

Let's imagine your customer has just purchased a new barbecue grill, or an entertainment center, or a sunroom. How should the salesperson handle this engagement opportunity? Read More

Lots of folks are joining the ranks of “business owner” as a career path these days. Some by design and some, unfortunately, because they have little choice. Many of these business owners are choosing to open up coaching, consulting and service businesses in part because it's so darn easy to do. The barrier to entry is sometimes little more than p Read More

The folks at Wordtracker, a paid service that is a great tool for discovering and choosing keyword phrases for your web site based on things such as search popularity and competition, pointed out a little Firefox add-on to me recently that some bloggers might find rather handy. Read More

While the corporate world continues debating the business value of social networking tools such as Twitter or Facebook, their use within the corporate walls continues to proliferate, where they are now migrating from marketing to HR, particularly for employee recruiting. Read More