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By Mariah Courtney

The summertime isn’t very kind to many small business owners. As they sweat in the sweltering heat of July and August, small business owners often struggle to cope with reduced sales and seasonality. What’s a small business owner to do?

Plenty!! Read More

By Mike LaLonde

The web stratosphere revolves around search engines. A large part of utilizing the web to grow a successful business, online or off, is driving profitable traffic through search engines. With over 94% of Internet users using search engines to find what they’re looking for, havi Read More

Hashtags started as a way to link tweets to dynamic feeds within Twitter, but they've quickly infiltrated every part of our lives. It's no longer uncommon to hear a friend end a sentence with, "#first world problems," or to find Instagram posts that contain more hashtags than actual content. Hashta Read More

Do you tend to keep your desk clean and sparse of objects? Or is your desk covered by multiple LCD monitors and other tech gadgets? The way we set up our workspaces reflects a great deal about our work styles. Read More

Jim Blasingame, The Small Business Advocate, quizzes me on franchisees opening up additional franchise business locations. Most of my clients want to open up more than one unit-here's how to do it. Read More

Facebook Hashtags are already declared dead.

But, we disagree. Instead, marketers and companies simply have not been using the #hashtag feature to its fullest advantage... yet.

Read our effective tips and tricks to keep the #Facebook hashtag alive and well on your Facebook business page.
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The new rules for sales success are the new ABC of Attunement, Buoyancy and Clarity. In this second post in the series I review Daniel Pink’s rules on Buoyancy. He breaks down his thoughts into: Positivity ratios, self-questioning negativity, measure rejection, negativity and realism. Read More

Creating visually interesting infographics people want to respost and share is a great way to promote your brand and establish yourself as an expert in your field. Today, a number of applications make it easier than ever to turn that dull text into an eye-popping visual that gets noticed. Read More

Most of today’s frozen yogurt franchises are busy…franchisees are selling a lot of yogurt and some franchisors are selling a lot of franchises, but things may change. Correction: things will change. Read More

Many entrepreneurs work hard on the proof of concept (technical), but skip any proof of the business model (revenue flow). In other words, once they are convinced that the product works, they assume their price, sales channel, and marketing will bring in the customers. These days, the technical sid Read More