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If you want exposure, your site to function better, and to remain high in the search rankings, Google can help. Here are five popular Google search engine optimization and website design tools your business should be using Read More

How to Pitch Your Business to Friends and Family: It's important to preserve relationships and protect everyone involved when tapping your family tree for funding Read More

Building better customer relationships is not just something that would be nice to do – it is something you must do if you expect to be successful in business today. This book contains 101 useful suggestions for maintaining and building relationships with your customers – starting with the next contact you make.

The 101 ways in this book are all about people and how they react or respond to others. Most of the ways deal with common courtesies that anyone would appreciate – for example, keep the customer in the communications loop, don’t put customers on hold, be accessible to the customer and do what you say you will. All of the ways boil down to good, common sense Read More

If getting people to comment on your blog has been an ongoing problem, you may be interested in this advice specifically aimed at WordPress bloggers from Heather C. Stephens a.k.a. the "clever marketer" about how to give a very clear SEO incentive to those who leave comments on your blog. Heather has even gone so far as to create a badge and recommend that you use it to promote this incentive as a way of encouraging more comments. What is this incentive. Read Heather's post to find out more.. Read More

Do you have a backup plan for your small business or working from home? When you work from home (or even when you have a traditional job), you need a back-up plan to deal with unexpected obstacles to getting your work accomplished Read More

I’m sure everyone now knows that if Facebook was a country, it’d be the third largest in the world. But....
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One thing that will help a job seeker’s search on LinkedIn is to build and engage with connections. So how can a job seeker get connections? Here's how to start.. Read More

Most articles on SEO and marketing blogs are all about answers. This one’s all about questions — seven questions that all small business owners should be asking about their online marketing strategies, tactics, and results Read More

Facebook announced what can clearly be called a “me too” location check in function yesterday, but hey, when you have half a billion people using something, even a copied innovation can have huge immediate impact. Facebook Places is a smart-phone location check-in feature that allows users to share their location, find the location of their friends, and discover new places based on other Facebook user recommendations – much like Loopt, Foursquare and Yelp! provide Read More

When I heard a friend make this statement the other day, I realized that every entrepreneur should adopt it as their mantra. I certainly have. If we all do it, we can drastically improve the statistic that over half of new startups fail within five years. Nothing is more discouraging to future entrepreneurs than a failed startup Read More