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Your business website should effectively represent your brand while providing ways for your leads to easily engage you. All roads in your business should lead back to your website, making it the pivot point for all your marketing. And you want to treat your website that way. Read More

In 24 hours (give or take), much of the United States will be on a holiday weekend. It might be tempting to lay low and start the holiday early, like maybe right now. But Read More

A video trailer for the book "How to Succeed as a Small Business Owner ... and Still Have a Life" by Bill Collier Read More

Listening has always been important, but now in the world of social media where conversations are amplified, repeated and spread at a much faster rate than ever before, listening has become even more critical. Many of us, particularly freelancers, don't have teams of people responsible for customer service and support to help make sure that we are Read More

A friend and business partner sent me these points on how to fund a business startup. The advice is from serial entrepreneur Naval Ravikant at Microsoft BizSpark. Read More

Now, I'm no Anthony Hopkins, but training in acting and theater has definitely enhanced my sales career. With one foot in the world of theater and the other in the realm of business, here are a dozen suggestions to help you perform effective sales presentations. Read More

Of course, every type of financing has its price -- in this case, an interest rate of 30% is about average, Barzel said. (For comparison purposes, one-fifth of the small-business owners who participated in the NSBA survey reported paying an interest rate in excess of 20% on their primary credit cards.) And not every small business that walks throug Read More

With the blogosphere churning out nearly 1 million posts every 24 hours, an unstoppable river of content flows over the web daily. It's daunting, especially if you're new to online publishing. The good news is it's still very possible to succeed, even if you're just starting out today. Developing affinity with a group of readers who will actuall Read More

They're having a bad day. Or they're rushed. Or they're just naturally pissy people. If you work in sales, you've met them before. They're pissy prospects. Read More

Businesses of all sizes are sharing impressive results. But what about small town businesses? We don't have the same share of our local customers on Twitter. How many people can you realistically reach if only 5 or 10 out of your town's 5,000 people are signed up? How can that be worth the time and effort? Read More