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While the corporate world continues debating the business value of social networking tools such as Twitter or Facebook, their use within the corporate walls continues to proliferate, where they are now migrating from marketing to HR, particularly for employee recruiting. Read More

With the increase in the number of people using social media to help increase their online presence some have said there will be less of a need for search engine optimization (SEO), but at the SES San Jose conference this week the assessment was that SEO is not dead. Read More

Lisa Wood's blog post about how to use StumbleUpon to grow your small business is the first in a series of posts about using the social bookmarking site as a powerful marketing tool to promote online ventures. The post begins with a simple introduction to the site and an explanation of how it works. Next come posts on how StumbleUpon can help you Read More

6 categories, 26 reasons. And your company still isn't on Twitter? Read More

Is this a dream or science fiction? Can someone actually read a book in 30 minutes? First, let's ask where the idea of speed reading originated. Read More

If you have not taken the time to really understand you customers then you are left with assuming you know what they expect. For example if you have ever been asked to quote on a job do you tell the customer when they will receive the quote or do you leave it up in the air by saying...I will get back to you with the quote soon. Here are a few tips Read More

Your international sales success depends on the choices you make in how you connect with your international clients. One of these first choices is to always try to see things from the other person's point of view and this can be very difficult in cross-cultural sales encounters. Read More

How have you built trust in cross-cultural communication with international clients? Please share your tips for next month's cross-cultural communication challenge to cultivate trust. Read the tips for the 2 previous monthly cross-cultural communication challenges, to expand your mindset and get extreme with clarity. Read More

When you went to your last dental visit did you sit in the chair and wonder what kind of marketing the doctor was doing to drive business? I bet you didn't. And neither did many of the dentists. A severe recession will change all that and many dentists are now stepping up their marketing efforts to include traditional marketing, public relation Read More

Thanks to Laurel Delaney at http://borderbuster.blogspot.com/ The Global Small Business Blog for this link about how young entrepreneurs (and other graduates seeking good jobs) are heading to China. The story in The New York Times talks about the appeal of China because of lower cost of living and an expanding economy with a recession at home. Rea Read More