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While dodging the rain in Vermont on vacation I spent some time thinking about our social media plans for the second half of 2009. In the first half of the year, we like everyone else, have been focusing on Twitter and Facebook. You cannot pick up a mainstream newspaper or magazine these days without some reference to Twitter and I expect that Twi Read More

Experience and perfection is one of the best ways to sell more. There is a relationship between selling and asking questions. This is an analogy on how to sell more by doing and perfecting so ultimately, you perfect your craft. Read More

With most people joining one of two opposite camps at the moment - “The Oh Me, Oh My, We are all Doomed, Doomed I tell you” mob, or the slightly cocky and arrogant “Recession? What Recession — Stop Making Excuses — It's all in your head” gang. The truth — just like the hole in the donut — is probably somewhere around the middle. Rather than buy Read More

You can never have enough time to talk about how to leverage the Internet to engage a local audience by utilizing local marketing strategies. UnderstandingMarketing.com can't underscore enough the importance of having a strong local search marketing and local online marketing strategy. Here are several tips to help any small business with their lo Read More

Why does your small business need a blog and what is a blog anyway? How will blogging increase my business? How do search engines react to blogs? All of these questions and more are answered in this informative article. Read More

While this embarrassing Twitter fiasco is a few months old, it is a great example of how NOT to use social media. Read More

Starting in 2011, a family making $500,000 would have to pay $1,500 in additional income tax to help subsidize coverage for the uninsured. A family making $1 million would have to pay $9,000. Employers who do not provide health insurance to workers would generally have to pay a fee or penalty to the government. The fee would be equal to 8 perc Read More

Websites.com, a new online resource to help small businesses get the most out of their sites, is currently sponsoring a contest for the best new website. The winner will receive $10,000 (second place $3,000). Websites.com also has a repository of articles about website-related topics of interest to business owners and entrepreneurs. Read More

If you are looking for a new business to start, this is a good idea list. Entrepreneur magazine is good for that among other things. Read More