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Matt Mansfield works to help online businesses by matching their needs with online software, tools and sites that help them save time and money, start new projects and grow their existing business. His eclectic career experience spans over 20 years of technology support and administration, software Read More

I want to talk to you today about creating a networks of ninjas. So often, with startups, businesses are so concerned with creating their product or getting their product to market, that by the time they get it out there they've neglected the whole of networking with people in the process. And th Read More

In business, you're dead without creativity.

Maybe you're one of the millions of people who saw Newsweek's recent article about The Creativity Crisis (http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/10/the-creativity-crisis.html), where Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman write about the decline of the American educ Read More

If your efforts to develop a steady stream of high-paying clients have been unsuccessful so far, it doesn’t mean you should quit trying. But it does mean you need to change something about the way you’re selling your services.

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I feel like the past month (most likely since LinkedIn made some important changes to groups, Q&A, etc.), more and more people are using LinkedIn...Super, I discussed in my previous post The Six Step Idiot's Guide to Establishing a LinkedIn Presence, what a great, and often under utilized tool LinkedIn can be.
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In every failure lies numerous opportunities. Lessons learned, doorways opened, doorways closed (yes, sometimes a closed door can be one of the best opportunities). Find them, understand what they mean and analyze how pursuing those opportunities could affect your business.
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It happened at a company that I previously worked at. A customer had a bad experience with a coworker and wrote a blog post about what happened. That blog post ended up on the front page of the Google results for a search for that company's name. After that happened, other customers who had bad experiences left comments on the blog post, adding more content about the company and solidifying it's standing on the first page of Google. It cost the company (and still costs them) a lot of customers, as well as good employees who see that post and decide they don't want to work there Read More

Social media is a very powerful tool for allowing businesses to efficiently and economically develop a strong brand presence in the marketplace. Read More

Those who know me well (and probably also those that only know me a little bit), know that I am an eternal optimist. Sadly, I find that by living a life as an optimist, I'm often misunderstood, maligned and simply found ignorant and annoying. I find this a bit of a sad reflection on a world that is becoming increasingly mistrusting and negatively focused. After all, if you don't LET a light shine, you can guarantee that it won't, and for me, that is no way to live Read More

There are so many ways to make LinkedIn useful for your business, this is really only a starter list to get you up and going Read More