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The importance of giving first and how your willingness to make the first step in international business networking is vital to your success. Read More

LinkedIn and Twitter announced an integration today that should be interesting. Starting sometime today, LinkedIn users can automatically feed their Twitter status updates to their LinkedIn status updates. While LinkedIn's status update feature is right there for all to use, my experience is that people don't use it nearly as much as they shoul Read More

LinkedIn, which recently reached the 50 million user milestone, has long been considered the social networking site for professionals. If you're in business, it is basically expected that you have a profile there. Here are some of the things you should consider incorporating into your LinkedIn strategy. Read More

Effective business networking is the linking together of individuals who, through trust and relationship building, become walking, talking advertisements for one another. Read More

Some people are stronger at things than others. That's what makes business so magical. Before you get into new collaborations, take some time to get to know your own personal SWOT. SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. Read More

The past several weeks I've been giving a lot of thought to the work associated with and the consequences of re-branding something. The process made me sit down, think about re-branding in general, and do some research. Here's what I learned. Read More

Twitter added a new feature recently called Lists. I have to admit, at first I thought this was no big deal. I use desktop twitter clients like TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop to create groups and lists already, so what's the big deal. Once I started playing around with Twitter's List feature I quickly became hooked and think there are some grea Read More

Health insurance costs and proposed legislation for future health insurance options are a continuing source of frustration and pain for millions of small business owners and entrepreneurs looking to grow their operations. As health costs rise for small business they may be faced with the unwanted task of laying off even more people to avoid the co Read More

Marketers today are caught up in a jumble of buzzwords that mean very little. It's a confusing time, but to get the marketing right, you need to start thinking about relationships first. "It's not about selling something anymore; that might be the end result, but to get there, you need to work on the relationship." Read More

What's a megatrend, you ask? It's something big. I'm talking really big. Think of a giant unstoppable tsunami of change transforming society as we know it. Think global warming scale -- then apply it to mass human behavior. Think glaciers carving the grand canyon of consumer sentiment. So what are the new megatrends that Adam Kleinberg b Read More