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A business reputation can take years to build. It demands nurturing, cultivation and care. One businessman showed me how all of that work can go straight down the toilet in minutes flat. It's a story of the sweet sounds of the late, great Marvin Gaye, engine trouble, a tow truck and the "nightmare" car scenario. Read More

Persistence is a key ingredient to success in business and when job hunting. It is important to develop and practice persistence. This article discusses the topic Read More

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is essentially about doing good and doing well. Generally, it refers to the process of integrating social values and mission within business decision-making process, so as to achieve positive and sustainable outcomes towards the business, environment and the community at large.
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The results of an exclusive recent survey are in, and entrepreneurs are starting to get more optimistic. Highlights of the study include: 52% of entrepreneurs use an iPhone, 36% feel the recession hasn’t hurt their business much and 28% feel 2010 is going to be the best year ever.
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BizSugar is a proud sponsor of the SmallBiz Social Media Summit to be held in Hutchinson, Kansas June 4-6. Learn more about using social media to promote your small business and bring you more of the customers you want. Please read this post on the event with links to further information and a special opportunity for the BizSugar community. Read More

We recently ran a test that improved our email enquiry conversion rate by 25%, but we decided not to make the change permanent because it came at too great a cost. Find out why here. Read More

Last week I spoke at PubCon South on the Analytics Strategy panel on the topic of social media. This is something I’m very passionate about and during my Read More

For years now, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for websites has been honed into a fine art with entire companies devoting considerable effort to defining best practices and touting the value of SEO for raising a site's performance on organic search listings. While I believe in the power of SEO, there is a new offering we have started providing to clients which we call Social Media Optimization ( Read More

An interesting report, conducted by the Network Box, has revealed some interesting stats about our beloved Internet. It was concluded that more business traffic goes to Facebook than to any other Internet site. Analysis of 13 billion URLs used by businesses in the first quarter of 2010 show that 6.8% of all business Internet traffic goes to Facebook; an increase of 1% since the last quarter of 20 Read More

Is the biggest challenge for business staffing, or cash flow, or finding customers? Or is the biggest challenge for business not actually understanding what business they are in, in the first place? Read More