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Have you ever considered using Facebook for your business? I bet you have heard stories on how businesses have used it successfully for marketing, branding, customer service, file sharing and work management. This post will introduce to you 10 Facebook Applications for Businesses. Read More

It's been a little over two months now since my company, Small Business Trends LLC, acquired BizSugar.com, a site for small business news. It's been a learning experience, and it occurred to me that it might make a good case study about acquiring a Web business. So I plan to periodically report on how it's going. It's still early but I'm rea Read More

People have been fervently writing about the fame of social media, especially Twitter. Ever since it took everyone by storm with its 140 characters of instant messaging, social networking has never been the same again. We have heard many describing Twitter as their ultimate kit for successful online business, promotional tool, or even traffic m Read More

Passion for the product does not build a sales career; It only initiates it. Read More

Each business has 7 ages: enthusiasm, naivety, attention, maturity, expansion, leadership and exhaustion. Read More

I've just read a really interesting article in PR News about how listening to and engaging in social conversations online is the key to customer relations success. I totally agree with the argument and am constantly telling my clients that tapping into potential and existing customers' 'thinking' is one of the most powerful pre-sales tools you can Read More

The Socialnomics-Social Media Blog has compiled a comprehensive list of stats from all kinds of sources to prove that "Social Media Is Bigger Than You Think." Watch the video after the jump. Read More

In this video, part of a series called "Who Pops Your Popcorn", business consultant Rod Alan Richardson of www.rodalan.com gives a wonderful overview of marketing for small business. In the interview, Rod insists that marketing is particularly important in small business where, he says, there is no room to delegate the responsibility to someone Read More

How to avoid financial pressure if you're running your own business. Read More

Buffet is indeed one of the greatest investors to ever walk the face of the earth, and his strategies and ideas carry tremendous weight.   He influences the influencers and very often his beliefs are taken out of context and therefore misunderstood and lead to stock bubbles.  Read More