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There's a time and place to go big, lord knows we get told how small we are often enough. But when it comes to marketing your small business I would trade big dreams and pages of killer ideas for one little strategy brilliantly and consistently executed. Small business owners get so caught up in the “web 3.0 idea of the day” that they never get Read More

Some even have called the use of service-based, transactional e-mail the "new wave in e-mail marketing." If you have yet to add transactional e-mail to your marketing mix, you're missing a huge opportunity. With the right strategy and infrastructure, you easily and inexpensively can transform your service-based messages into revenue-making oppo Read More

AOL's Advertising.com division is launching a tool for publishers to help them monetize their sites, according to a company release. PubAccess works by allowing publishers to connect with advertisers on Advertising.com. As is the case on AdSense, they can also block certain advertisers from appearing on their sites. PubAccess is intended to Read More

Internet users don't even see most of the ads on a Web page, particularly if they're below the fold--whether the site is a highly trafficked media property or a niche blog. That's according to new research from MarketingSherpa. The marketing research and consulting firm commissioned Eyetools to run an eye-tracking study with the goal of fin Read More

Selling for a startup presents unique challenges even for highly experienced sales professionals. Because your company is new, your potential customers don't know anything about it and, sad to say, in business unfamiliarity breeds contempt. Not to worry, though. Here are the six rules of selling for startups: Read More

In a business downturn, employee training may be the first budget to be cut at a small company. But the right training has the potential to have a dramatic impact on a company's bottom line, and a program that raises the level of employee engagement can help retention. Read More

The selection of environmentally friendly clothing gets bigger every day. That's because younger shoppers are finally translating their passion for purer and more organic foods in their kitchens to purer and more organic clothing in their closets, reports Iconoculture. Read More

Whether you're running the Home or Professional version of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, keep these dates in mind. June 30, 2008: If your mind's set on using XP (like 60-plus percent of these poll-takers), this is the last day Microsoft will let hardware vendors and retailers install it on new computers, other than on budget-minde Read More

This is tip #2 in the series of “Blog Marketing Tips Even the ProBloggers Won't Share” series. See tip #1: How to Optimize Blog Post Titles. In this tip, Andy Beal share's with you a practice that he uses to optimize slugs before hitting the “publish” button. Read More

Clayton Christopher, founder of Sweet Leaf Tea (one of fastest growing iced teas) shares a great cycling story analogus to the many times his company almost went under over the last 10 years, but he never gave up. Now he's in 6,000 stores & in every state. Read More