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Community members are not going follow you around like puppies -- no matter how much you want your fans love you. Communities have ebbs and flows. People in those communities do as well. The guy or gal that's gung-ho about your product or service in September may disappear Read More

I just thought I'd share this past blog post. If anyone is having trouble embedding BizSugar voting buttons into Blogger, check out this post. It addresses an irrational little quirk .... If you use Blogger (Blogspot) Read More

Nice short list of 8 things that winning businesses should do, based on a radio show by host Zane Safrit with guest Gary Hoover of Hoover's World. These tips are not the usual suspects. For instance, one of the tips is about reading business history -- and how important Read More

Have you ever been at a trade show or out and about, and wanted to take a credit card order from a customer? This new portable (very small) credit card terminal from Inuit allows you to do that. As this review points out Read More

Think back to some of the best face to face conversations you've had with friends or colleagues. What happened in those spirited conversations? You talked about an important topic that interested everyone. People had definite opinions and feelings about the issue. Each person Read More

Yahoo wants to buy some startups, especially social media and smartphone application companies. But would that be the beginning of the end for the startup? Nicholas Carson at Silicon Alley Insider looks at Yahoo's "entire sorry acquisition history" ... Read More

Talk about multi-tasking! Employees reported cramming 15.9 hours worth of activity, ranging from returning email to surfing the web, into one 8-hour workday. Those under age 30 Read More

Here are some interesting iPhone apps to keep you and your small business organized and productive. Includes apps for: accounting, calendars and to-do lists, travel, client relations and CRM, security, calculators, office notes, human resources, meetings, reference tools, niche business tools -- and a lot more. Really good list. Read More

Wall Street Journal reporters were given rules for how to conduct themselves on Twitter and Facebook, including: * Don't disparage the work of colleagues or competitors or aggressively promote your coverage. * Don't engage in any impolite dialogue with those who may challenge your work -- no matter how rude or provocative they may seem. Read More

Starting today, anyone can make their blogs available via the new Kindle Publishing for Blogs Beta program. All you have to do is make your blog's feed available to the Kindle Store, and Amazon will do the rest, formatting your content for the device. According to the email from Amazon, after a few easy steps, your blog should be up and ready Read More