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As our e-based world increasingly blurs the line between our personal and professional lives, it’s important to make good use of our time. Yet the best approach is usually the one we resist the most. Read More

Online reputation management is critical in a time when more and more customers, employers, potential dates, and others will ‘Google’ a person or a business before engaging with them to any degree. People tend to want to understand the good and the bad of those with whom they are consorting, and ne Read More

A recent report makes an even bigger case for social selling. One main finding? Salespeople who use social media outperform their peers who don't. Read More

“It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on,” I told her, as I was fond of quotes that may strike chords of easy understanding in odd situations. Read More

For many U.S. small to mid-sized businesses, 2013 could be the year for global expansion. The uneven economic recovery and the administration’s focus on doubling exports by 2014 (National Export Initiative) means greater business opportunities in international markets, such as Brazil, Russia, India Read More

It seems like a new social network pops up every day, and many of them can add real value to your organization.
How do you know which ones your business should be investing its precious time in? To help answer this question, I've listed some of the most common social media channels along with the Read More

The traditional mode of starting a company is to plan a serial process, where you complete once all the steps, leading to the “big bang” launch of the company. I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won Read More

Creating a website is easy but increasing the domain authority is not. It is a long term process and requires a lot of patience. It’s not overnight that a new website can develop a domain authority. The only thing that a new website can do is create a strong number of links that are directed back t Read More

Entrepreneurs have to know when and how to say ‘no,’ and be good at delivering the message. All startup leaders are besieged with requests for their time, attention, talent, money, or influence, and sometimes even good requests won’t fit into the time and energy you have available. Read More

Have you used hashtags outside of social media? Have you received an email with a hashtag in the subject line? Read More