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Most consumers prefer to receive email notifications of ads and special deals, despite the current emphasis on social media marketing campaigns, according to an Econsultancy study Read More

SMB email marketers are seeing results from incorporating more video and social media into campaigns; 64% have boosted conversion rates using video email. Read More

The arguments are well rehearsed about whether the big banks are doing enough to support the mainstay of the economy by lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Indeed last week, this column considered whether the state-backed Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is doing enough Read More

A list of things to do (including checking out the archives and pre-ordering a copy of my book) while I'm on vacation this week Read More

Have you asked yourself, will I ever make any money online?

The reasons most of you will never make any money online is you will not learn the things I just listed. Has anyone ever told you that. Probably not, because they want you to buy their reports and eBooks full of secrets. There are no secrets.

If you really want to make money online you are going to have to learn a few things. Do you need to learn everything I listed above? NO! First you have to learn something Read More

It looks as if small businesses with 250 employees or fewer may keep a UK exemption to a "right to train" rule that allows employees to take off from the jobs for additional training. As you can imagine, the regulation remains pretty unpopular among some segments of the UK business community. And if forced on small businesses, it could cause some additional problems. Adam Marshall, director of policy at the British Chambers of Commerce had this complained the rule would “provide yet another route to employment tribunal, allowing disgruntled employees an opportunity to threaten legal action due to paperwork and bureaucracy.” Read More

Here's an opportunity for small business contractors with a background in IT. The U.S. State Department is looking for help with "planning, architecture, engineering and documentation" for consolidation of its data center. Work will include "hardware and software evaluation and recommendations, configuration management system design and implementation, physical server virtualization and transition, and local area network administration support for server transition and consolidation." If any of this sounds like something your company can do, check out the links to the initial announcement to enter into the competitive bid process Read More

First, there are some businesses that I would certainly recommend that you avoid. Those would be businesses with a low or declining demand for its products or services; those with a start-up investment that puts your entire future at high risk; and those that you know absolutely nothing about or do not enjoy. So what does that leave Read More

Over the past year I have spent a substantial amount of time researching the subject of internet marketing. I have decided, for this post, to condense everything I have learned into one short article that can act as an outline for anyone who has not yet obtained a personal road map to this end. Read More