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A lot of online business owners focus so much on getting traffic from the search engines and optimizing for Google that they completely neglect the search engine on their own site. This article describes how to improve your onsite search Read More

I’ve come across a few vain executives lately. I won’t even call them leaders because I believe when vanity comes into play real leadership goes out the window.

We all know who these executives are and what it feels like to be around them. We start to wonder how they actually finagled their way into their executive roles, right? Because while confidence is an absolute requirement for being a leader, crossing the line to vanity wipes out all the good you’ve done in your career and leaves a very bad taste in the mouths of those who work with you, for you, and around you.

And while I have had to work with some vain execs lately I’ve also had the distinct pleasure of meeting some leaders who are so inspiring in the way they treat others that I decided to make a list of attributes that you don’t always find on a CEO’s job description, but when exhibited make these people the greatest kinds of leaders… Read More

While tweet chats can appear to be organized chaos from an outsider’s perspective, they are a fantastic way to enhance your experiences on Twitter by connecting and sharing with other individuals interested in the same topics. For those that are unfamiliar with tweet chats, they can be defined as prearranged discussions that happen on Twitter through the use of a predefined hashtag. The chat hashtag is used to link the tweets together in a virtual conversation so that all participants can follow along. Formal Twitter tweet chats are arranged in advance and occur at a specific time. They also may include a formal agenda with a specific leader/speaker/moderator or they might involve a free flowing discussion between all participants Read More

There has been a lot of talk lately about influence – because of the Fast Company Influence Project and a HubSpot-sponsored program with a similar name. Insights from these projects address how we influence others online and the myriad theories behind how to do it effectively. There is even a contest to see who is actually (a point of contention) the most influential person online today Read More

Social media is certainly the new shiny thing in the eyes of corporate marketers. Global consumer brands have started integrating social networking into advertising and marketing campaigns, but there is even lower hanging fruit in the world of search engine marketing. The following article outlines various strategies for integrating social media marketing with search engine optimization (SEO) and pay-per-click (PPC) advertising Read More

In this post, I will explain how you can use your best content to nurture these early stage leads to the point where they are ready to take the next step in their buying journey – and to take it with your company. Read More

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A serious, whacky and irreverant look at the question: "Are Business-Bloggers Running Out of Things to Blog About?" Read More

Recently, Newsweek reported that research shows that creativity in America is declining for the first time. Kyung Hee Kim at the College of William & Mary discovered after analyzing roughly 300,000 intelligence test scores of adults and children that since 1990 creativity scores have slowly been declining. The most serious decline occurred in the scores of children in kindergarten through sixth grade. The potential consequences could be damaging to our nation’s long-term economic growth as these youths are the future of our country and creativity and innovation are a large part of our nation’s backbone. A recent IBM poll of 1,500 CEOs identified creativity as the #1 leadership competency of the future. Below are 7 ways for correcting this issue before it becomes a huge problem Read More

Francisco Rosales shares eight power tools you could use if you want to turn your blog into a profit center. The total cost per month is under $100 Read More

To steer successfully through today’s economy and handle the constant pressure of balancing cost reduction with compliance, your growing company needs business tools that provide intuitive insight into your performance. In fact, you need the same intuitive insight that large enterprises get to enjoy with enterprise business intelligence software Read More