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The results are in from our most recent poll! I asked you what the best business advice was that you ever received and you replied in full force! Here are the results below. Thank you everyone for participating and I hope you find kernels of wisdom here that you can apply to your business: Read More

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Obama and his team understood their target demographic/markets and how to use a mix of multi touch, multi level and multimedia platforms to reach these people where they were already hanging out. By using video game ads, Twitter, an active online community, and a list of other marketing vehicles, the Obama marketing team understood the importance Read More

When you hear the term Generation Y, what do you think of? iPods? Instant messaging? Online communities? If so, you're on track. But as a B2B marketer, you should add target market to that list. And if you don't think this demographic is part of your audience, think again. Read More

As a reporter and editor at Forbes Magazine, Erika Brown handled a lot of story pitches from companies. Now she's director of marketing and business development at Matrix Partners (one of HubSpot's investors), making pitches of her own. In an interview earlier this fall, Erika explained to HubSpot's Karen Rubin how she thinks companies should p Read More

In speech after speech, presidential candidate John McCain hammers on the claim that his rival Barack Obama will raise taxes on many small businesses. Should small business owners fear for their wallets if Obama is elected? Read More

Layoffs have truncated staff; cost-cutting measures are threatening projects, and morale is in the toilet. From the manager's perspective, getting the most out of employees in this kind of environment can seem like a Sisyphean task. In fact, it's a perfect opportunity to rejigger processes and fix what's broken — and managers are uniquely position Read More

When times are good, anybody can sell. It's at times like this that you find out if you're really a sales professional— or just an order taker. Here's the good news. Chances are your competitor — the sales guy down the street — is obsessing about the economy when he should be out selling. So that means that you've just been handed an incre Read More

You can, within the limits of ethics and accuracy, represent yourself any way that you want on the Internet. Your landing page isn't written on stone tablets; it's the most ethereal of objects -- a set of bits that reside on a computer hard disk and are accessible to the world. Read More

I confess it's been hard to cut through the myriad messages of alarm and preoccupation coming from every which way in the last couple of weeks, and think rationally. As a human who is highly invested in relationships, how all of the recent events are connected has impacted me to varying degrees. Read More