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Talk to people inside the SBA and they'll say the agency is poised to emerge from several trying years of restructuring a stronger, business-friendlier organization. Then there are SBA critics like Sen. John Kerry who, as chairman of the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, contends the agency, under President George W. Bush, has l Read More

Small businesses are feeling pressure from the economy and are looking for ways to save money. New data from a study conducted by the U.S. Federation of Small Business and DYMO shows just what these businesses are doing to cut costs: - 23% of respondents have cut staff - 36% of respondents have decreased business travel - 36% of responden Read More

If you want to make your website better at turning visitors into customers (or subscribers), you need to understand why most of your visitors are leaving! But those people come and go without trace! How do you know what they wanted? How do you know what would have persuaded them to take action? If you owned a real-life bricks-and-mortar stor Read More

There are a number of tools that aggregate plenty of useful SEO related information on one page. The idea is that you can quickly evaluate any page and get an instant access to each individual source for more information. I can't say I use them very often but at times that's really very convenient when you need a quick SEO overview (the star-ratin Read More

Here are six reasons why you should invest in internet marketing during the recession... Read More

SEO remains one of the most cost-effective marketing strategies, especially over the long haul. If your site and the pages on it have historically responded well to desired search terms, you should be tweaking your site to speak to the changing market. Here are seven inexpensive strategies to help you win during these challenging times. Read More

Thinking about the post I would write for Blog Action Day, I started to realize just how powerful this “poverty” idea is. In the developed world, swimming the way we are in material abundance that we can't really see, just changing your thinking about poverty can have profound implications for the kind of success you can start to create. Read More

Last week I decided to find some quality Australian blogs to subscribe to. I used a newly compiled list of Australian Marketing Blogs that Julian Cole put together as the basis for my search. I was excited by the quality of some of the blogs on that list - but it struck me as I surfed through the list that there were three frustrations that I had Read More

Have you heard the expression “All sizzle and no steak?” It is an old saying that means lots of flash or style but no substance. Sales people are admonished to sell the sizzle not the steak! However, in business, sizzle may attract initial interest but you have to back it up with steak or you will not be able to keep your customers at the dinner Read More

Jennifer Laycock recaps the excellent SBMU conference held last week in Columbus, Ohio. Read More