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It's always nice when you can figure out a way to infiltrate your competitors' operations and actually use them to sell your own product. Google recently added a couple of mobile features that small businesses (particularly online businesses should pay attention to). First, they released Product Search for mobile. What this means, is that users Read More

In the past, SEO success was measured by rankings of target keywords; then the focus moved to traffic; today we have moved into the bottom-line era: organic traffic should be measured by its impact on revenue. This post is based on a presentation delivered at eMetrics San Jose 2009. It is about ways to integrate and improve SEO and website usabili Read More

Anonymous Banker discusses how banks are slashing small-business credit facilities, and how the Obama administration has stood idly by all the while. Read More

What if you built a site and all the right people showed up, but none of them bought anything? The traffic is ample and the content is killer with thousands of links, but sales are flat. What if you knew you had the best prices or the most unique offerings in town and STILL no one was buying? Would you realize you probably had some usability is Read More

Landing pages play tremendous roles in serving consumers' information needs and closing sales. In their recent white paper, Consumer Retail: Utilizing Landing Pages for Integrating Online and Offline Advertising Programs, LeapFrog Interactive's Art Director Jeremy Williams and Director of Interactive Marketing Michael Wunsch share a few pointers o Read More

John Krech, owns ePhiphony, a one-person business that sells a patent-pending inventory optimization software called Phitch, designed specifically for small business owners. John discusses what makes Phitch unique (it uses a new metric, called "economic profit", to determine ideal inventory) and how small business owners should manage their inve Read More

Failure in life or in business can be painful. But it can also be one of the best teachers we entrepreneurs have, challenging us to learn from our mistakes and take the steps necessary to achieve success in the end. Read More

Lately, I've been seeing signs of the irrational exuberance of 1999. Internet pioneer and dotcom veteran Scott D. Sullivan Reinhart sat down with me recently to share his views of what went wrong back then and how entrepreneurs can do it better today. Read More

Why entrepreneurs aren't so optimistic about the economy. Read More

"Anyone serious about promoting wealth-creating entrepreneurship must at some point direct attention toward how the moral, legal and political environment aligns incentives. Entrepreneurship -- like everything else -- doesn't exist in a vacuum. It's long past the time we stopped pretending it does." Read More