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Starting a new business is a big deal. And, let’s be honest, it’s a lot of hard work.

The truth is, successful entrepreneurs have certain personality traits that allow them to go from a great idea to a thriving business. Often a person’s success has much less to do with what they know and more Read More

Somebody — a man named Jeff — created National Punctuation Day, which occurs September 24.

You could celebrate by buying Jeff’s t-shirt that shows an apostrophe and reads “It’s not possessive.” You could observe a moment of silence at noon and apologize to all the semi-colons you have abused. Or Read More

Many times business owners get so caught up "running" the business they neglect to evolve, stay up to date with current trends and strategically positioning their company for future success. This is one of the biggest mistakes you can make. Starting the company from the very beginning to handle gro Read More

Your site traffic is critical to driving profits, as your traffic grows you have more conversion opportunities. Whether you're running a 100 item product catalog, or launching a new product line, often times you need to generate a traffic boost. Here are five fast fixes to drive traffic to your eco Read More

So many people read about social media being the next big business platform. This is true. However, what they are really reading is: “Social media is the next place I can sell my product.” This is not precisely true. Selling on social media is not the same as selling on a website, or in a commer Read More

Matt Mansfield works to help online businesses by matching their needs with online software, tools and sites that help them save time and money, start new projects and grow their existing business. His eclectic career experience spans over 20 years of technology support and administration, software Read More

I want to talk to you today about creating a networks of ninjas. So often, with startups, businesses are so concerned with creating their product or getting their product to market, that by the time they get it out there they've neglected the whole of networking with people in the process. And th Read More

In business, you're dead without creativity.

Maybe you're one of the millions of people who saw Newsweek's recent article about The Creativity Crisis (http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/10/the-creativity-crisis.html), where Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman write about the decline of the American educ Read More

If your efforts to develop a steady stream of high-paying clients have been unsuccessful so far, it doesn’t mean you should quit trying. But it does mean you need to change something about the way you’re selling your services.

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I feel like the past month (most likely since LinkedIn made some important changes to groups, Q&A, etc.), more and more people are using LinkedIn...Super, I discussed in my previous post The Six Step Idiot's Guide to Establishing a LinkedIn Presence, what a great, and often under utilized tool LinkedIn can be.
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