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The CEO of Mahalo has gotten more press than any entrepreneur could dream of and has never had a public relations firm working for him. Calacanis's philosophy of PR is summed up in six words: be amazing, be everywhere, be real. You don't need a PR firm, you don't need an in-house PR person and you don't need to spend ANY money to get ama Read More

E-mail's potential and complexities are both seemingly endless, according to Morgan Stewart, director of research and strategy for the Minneapolis-based e-mail marketing firm ExactTarget. Stewart offers a number of pointers on how to make e-mail work in real time as a marketing tool. Read More

Potential clients will ask a lot of questions before they hire you. They will want to know about your experience and qualifications, when they can expect the project to be completed and, of course, the price. But there are two pieces of information you should never reveal, no matter how many times they ask, or how many ways they ask. Read More

Banner blindness has been around since, well, the invention of banner ads. Ever since, experts have been discussing the ins and outs of banner blindness and ways in which advertisers can lessen the effect. Read More

It happens all the time: Two guys in a garage come up with a cool new technology -- and dream of making it big. A thousand people take time off work to campaign for a visionary politician because they feel they are doing something to change the world. A million kids hit baseballs -- and wonder what it would take to become a pro. Then the brain Read More

If you regularly sell items on online auction sites, you may find yourself on the Internal Revenue Service's radar. Recent legislation aims to help the IRS collect more taxes from online enterprises, many of which either don't know about their tax obligations or are ignoring them, according to the agency. The provision, part of the housing re Read More

As of June 2008, if your business processes credit card payments, you are required to comply with new security standards to prevent fraud, hacking, and various other security vulnerabilities and threats, or risk losing this ability and being audited or fined. Any company or government agency that processes, stores, or transmits payment card da Read More

Cybercriminals aren't so much worried about the size of their targets as they are the security they are forced to navigate. To that end they are increasingly targeting SMBs due to a lack of security measures implemented by that sector. Read More

Dave Hermansen did not own a bird or a cage when he bought bird-cage.com, an online store, for $1,800 three years ago. He simply saw a Web site that was “very, very poorly done,” and begged the owners to sell it to him. He then redesigned the site, added advertising and drove up traffic. Last December, he sold it for $173,000. Mr. Hermansen is Read More

CITIES have long offered tax incentives to encourage companies to stay and newcomers to relocate. But another option is gaining currency in old manufacturing cities looking to prop up their struggling economies — homegrown nonprofit groups that nurture new businesses from the ground up. Skip to next paragraph One of the more innovative of thes Read More