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Both Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain have advanced a broad array of tax proposals that are complex, hard to understand, and on many points, difficult to compare. But the Tax Policy Center of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, two nonpartisan research organizations, recently published a study that provides the best Read More

At some point in time we have all attended a not so productive meeting. We even wonder why we were asked to attend. I offer 18 tips for the meeting chair and participants on how to make meetings more effective. 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

Worldwide statistics of social networking usage were recently released by comScore indicating the rate of growth by region of the world between 2007 and 2008. Before I show you the chart though, I want to highlight the fact that on a worldwide scale the use of social networks increased at a 25% rate compared to last year. Read More

The U.S. government has long supported a “big firm” economy with the idea that large companies are the primary drivers of innovation. But that's a recipe for stunted growth. So say Kauffman Foundation executives Carl Schramm and Robert Litan in an article this month's The American. The U.S. economy needs to grow at a 4% annual clip in the futu Read More

Return Path's Q2 2008 Reputation Benchmark Report (pdf) found e-mails sent from "legitimate" e-mail servers averaged a delivery rate of 56 percent. 20 percent were rejected; 8 percent filtered out of the inbox. The rest — 16 percent — were bounces. So nearly half of the time, e-mail marketers' messages don't get through. But there are way Read More

News is, AOL launched a worldwide online campaign that runs through the step by step of what target advertising is, benefits it brings and opting out options. And what better way to represent it than with Mr. Penguin; he's friendly, harmless, everyone loves penguins, plus, he loves anchovies. Read More

Actually, says the multi-millionaire founder of Maxim and other lad mags, you probably shouldn't even try. His book, How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets, newly published in America, mostly skips the braggadocio and platitudes typical of self-made-millionaire memoirs. Read More

In tonight's kick-ass post, Seth Godin says it takes 10 years to become a success, on or off the web... Come on Seth... really? I've got another 9+ years to go?! But what if we didn't have to think like this...? Most entrepreneurs are in a rush - a race against time, when really all they are racing against is themselves..... Read More

A growing number of SMBs with a web presence are discovering the simple joys of Google Analytics. It's true that many software brands exist now that can blow whistles and ring bells that outstrip the Google feeling, but how effective is the bang-for-buck of the high-priced analytics solution for the average startup site? Read More