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If you're trying to build inbound links for your website, you've probably heard that you'll get no link love from commenting on sites that are using the 'nofollow' tag. However, is this really the case? Social media expert, Michelle MacPhearson, did her own little test on this bit of online wisdom and discovered surprising results. Read More

Many entrepreneurs don't have the luxury of having a separate accounting department, instead doing their own number crunching. It's not always easy, but you can make it less difficult by making use of the huge number of free financial tools for businesses that are available on the Internet. Here are 100 calculators that can help you get and keep y Read More

A House Small Business Committee hearing was called this week to examine a trend that is alarming small businesses across the country. A growing number of states are imposing so-called "business activity" taxes on companies that have a connection, or "nexus," with the state. A nexus can exist, even though a business has no employees or physica Read More

Explore cost effective and integrated advertising effectiveness surveys design, programming and reporting solutions at Market Equations. Read More

At its simplest, a wiki is software that lets users work together to create and edit a collection of linked web pages. The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is the best-known example - its 85,000 contributors have written, edited, and policed the content of more than nine million entries. Like Wikipedia, all wikis benefit from the network effect: The m Read More

Web 2.0 efficiencies disrupt old business models by reducing manufacturing and investment costs and decentralizing information. It's time for the permeable corporation, where success depends upon cooperation and interaction. Read More

It's hard enough creating effective banner ads of any size, but it's especially difficult to create an ad that's only 125px X 125px (a popular size for blog ads). Randa Clay offers some great examples of these tiny ads. If you can create an effective version of one of these, you create an effect ad at any size. Read More

Overlooked and undervalued by the big boys of the exhibit industry, tabletop exhibits get little respect. This pint-sized workhorse, however, can deliver just as much ROI as a booth 10 times its size -- if you know how to handle the reins. Here are 10 tips to help you make the most of you small but mighty tabletop exhibit. Read More

This is a wonderful review of bizSugar by Terra Andersen at BetterForBusiness.com. If you haven't had the chance yet, check out her site. She's got some great articles and often finds unique angles on business that aren't covered by other writers. Quote from review: "this concept was MUCH NEEDED in the business world. I am beyond happy that Read More

Once upon a time directories provided value to webmasters who were either looking to get new sites indexed or increase their site's link popularity or both. Now I am seeing a trend where directories are not as helpful in these two areas as they once were. Add to that the rising costs of submission fees and it is easy to see why the small business Read More