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Your small business has a new reason to be listed — or a reason for updating your listing — on Foursquare.
The social geo-location site has introduced a new feature called Foursquare Trip Tips. It’s a Foursquare and Foursquare user-curated guide for upcoming trips you log into the site.
Users nee Read More

5miles, the Dallas and Beijing-based challenger to Wallapop and Craiglist has secured $30 million in new investment as it celebrates its first year in business this month.
The 1-year-old 5miles mobile marketplace app has managed to attract more than 5 million users (averaging 30,000 downloads a da Read More

What you share on social media won’t stay private forever. Increasingly, prosecution and defense attorneys are requesting copies of a plaintiff’s social media history in order to prove or disprove liability and damage claims.
While most of the lawsuits have been limited thus far to medical malprac Read More

After the multi-million dollar sale of his company, Shawn Thomas started the next chapter in his life — to share both business and life lessons in a multi-faceted way. As an angel investor, he engages as an active advisor and mentor to entrepreneurs in early-stage companies.
Shawn also creates con Read More

The demand for online content continues to grow. Econsultancy reports that increasing online content is a top priority for both business-to-consumer and business-to-business companies in 2016, with a specific rise in native content. This opens up opportunities for writers from all industries to fin Read More

Consider this scenario: Demo day at your accelerator is coming up soon and the organizers have asked you and the other start-ups in your cohort to sign up for a time to deliver your pitch to investors. Should you pick the first slot, the last slot, or a time in the middle?
The technical guys on yo Read More

As a local business producing or selling food or other culinary products in the U.S., you may already have a dedicated regional following.
But targeting a larger national audience, even with a website, presents some challenges. You may already ship your products to a few distant customers. Still, Read More

It was a week of big wins in small business. Though it wasn’t planned this way, the debut of a Small Business Trends column on handmade business this week corresponded with more news that the industry is on the rise.
And for those who worry about the overall health of small business, there are som Read More

A recurring question about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) lately seems to be, “Are backlinks still important to achieve a high Google ranking?”
The answer, in a word, is yes, according to a new study. In its latest 1 MillionResults Search Engine Ranking Factors Study, SEO company Backlinko has f Read More

Influence is a powerful tool for businesses, celebrities, and politicians alike. With it, these people can leverage lots of work without having to do a lot of work themselves. Influence, however, is something that everyone wants, but only a few achieve. How do you achieve influence that really coun Read More