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This post expands on the results provided in a Winning Workplaces feature article on the "Move Your Money" movement. Specifically, it shows respondents' assessment of the movement's impact to spur small business growth by U.S. geographic region Read More

Does your small business really need an SEO to manage your Web presence. This post from SEO Book running down the world's Top 10 best SEO's suggests that the best in the business probably aren't looking for work and those looking for work may not be worth the money. Apologies to any SEOs out there. Just read the article and leave your thoughts below. Read More

Three weeks ago I was asked by small business marketing Rockstar, John Jantsch, creator of the Duct Tape Marketing website, author of the New York Times Bestselling Duct Tape Marketing: The World's Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide (Amazon Link) and all-around fantastic small business resource (kissing a little butt here) to review his newest boo Read More

More than just a marketing tool, blogs and other online communities can be branded, developed, marketed and sold like a business or product in and of themselves. In this post and accompanying video Yaro Starak of Entrepreneurs-Journey explains how he created, sold, then bought, developed and sold multiple online properties and how you can too Read More

Many of our most-trusted online and offline marketing tactics have very little capacity to support or adapt to the context of time and place. They certainly cannot get down to specific increments of minutes and seconds, or meters and footsteps - like mobile interactions can. The mobile Web, specifically, unlocks for consumers the power to interact with, find, or demand the content they want at exactly the time and place they want it. Therefore, the mobile Web fills the gaps between layers of static, broadcast, or stationary media… between online and offline experiences… and between Web stores and physical stores Read More

Research shows that top business leaders have higher levels of Emotional Intelligence than average leaders.

Emotional Intelligence ("EQ") means you to understand the emotions, desires, and tendencies of yourself (self-awareness) as well as the people around you (other-awareness) - and are able to communicate in ways that move everyone in the direction of a common goal.

Here are a few key points to help you develop your EQ Read More

Whether it's black hat SEO, techniques on the darker side designed to make your Website more visible, actively spamming prospects with totally unwanted sales information or, if you happen to be the world's most powerful...er...search engine, threatening content owners as part of a PR campaign, cynicism isn't a good idea in the big corporate world or the small business world where you live. How about creating value instead of trying to force your way into the market. You can catch more flies with honey. Read the full post at SEO Book. Please share your thoughts below Read More

Over the course of the day, you do a lot of communicating — from making phone calls to sending emails, it may seem like all you ever do is communicate. And, for some of you, that’s absolutely the case. However, there are ways to streamline how you communicate by outsourcing different aspects — such as managing contacts, answering phone calls, and clearing your inbox — to the many professionals and tools at your disposal Read More

Well, it may not always feel that way, concedes Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, in this interview with marketer Seth Godin. On the other hand, Anderson argues cheap labor, access to the market and many other factors have never been more favorable for entrepreneurs. Hear the rest of Anderson's thoughts in the video from Open Forum Innovation Read More