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Looking Up: Export Opportunities for Small Businesses

Avatar Posted by macromax under Global
From http://www.kiplinger.com 6037 days ago
Made Hot by: on May 21, 2008 4:17 pm
Selling overseas isn't just for the big boys. The weak dollar -- boosting exports and growing demand for an increasing variety of products -- makes this an ideal time for small businesses to join the party. The U.S. Department of Commerce is eager to play matchmaker, helping to find and screen potential overseas partners and customers. Its Gol Read More
Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that costs nothing for users to access and little effort to keep in touch with busy friends. It can also help you build your brand or brand you as an expert. Here's a guide to help you get started “tweeting.” Includes 10 strategies to market your company and 5 to market yourself, plus lo Read More
The heart of every search engine optimization strategy are keywords and keyphrases. This article does a great job with the hows, wheres and whys of integrating keywords and keyphrases into your marketing mix. Read More
To limit sustained harm to your brain's executive functioning, you need to find ways to lessen daily stress that can result from multitasking. To counter this need for multitasking: Read More

Why the Organization Chart is Not Obsolete

Avatar Posted by Aaronontheweb under Human Resources
From http://blog.smartdraw.com 6040 days ago
Made Hot by: on May 18, 2008 8:37 pm
"As someone who has built a business from one person to 40 (and growing fast) I think most entrepreneurs misunderstand org charts and their value even to the smallest business of just one person. Yes, I'm serious: A one person organization that aims to grow needs an org chart!" Read More

Forget branding, invest in relations

Avatar Posted by morecowbell under Marketing
From http://www.financialpost.com 6040 days ago
Made Hot by: on May 19, 2008 1:39 pm
The majority of business owners could be headed for disaster this year. Small business does best when it acts like small business. It does poorly when it blindly attempts to copy big business. The results of an Ipsos-Reid poll in March, 2008, should scare you. It found "a majority (59%) of small to medium-sized business owners have identified Read More

Hefty Tax Breaks Designed to Spur Business Spending

Avatar Posted by morecowbell under Taxes
From http://www.kiplinger.com 6040 days ago
Made Hot by: on May 18, 2008 8:37 pm
Businesses are big winners in the economic stimulus package signed into law earlier this year. They may not be getting rebate checks, but they are getting showered with $45 billion in tax breaks designed to spur them on to purchase more equipment, cars and other assets sooner rather than later. Congress boosted the limit on first-year expensin Read More

23% drop in online ad rates, but smaller sites cash in

Avatar Posted by morecowbell under Online Marketing
From http://www.bizjournals.com 6041 days ago
Made Hot by: on May 18, 2008 8:38 pm
The PubMatic AdPrice Index indicates that the economic slowdown in the U.S. has led to a 23% drop in overall monetization for the online advertising industry. Large Web sites fared the worst while small Web sites managed to maintain their monetization rates, PubMatic said, adding that eCPMs for Web sites with more than 100 million page views p Read More

How To Transform A Culture With Innovation

Avatar Posted by hamerhokie under Success Stories
From http://open-source-innovation.com 6041 days ago
Made Hot by: on May 16, 2008 8:52 pm
How Project Better Place is using the principles of innovation to transform Israel by eliminating the need for oil by 2020. Read More

Overstock Terminates All New York Based Affiliates

Avatar Posted by storyspinner under Online Marketing
From http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com 6041 days ago
Made Hot by: on May 17, 2008 5:18 pm
Starting June 1, 2008 merchants will be required to collect taxes or face repercussions. Yesterday, Overstock dealt with this issue by removing all New York based affiliates from their program. How will other large online only retailers react? Will other states follow suit? Read More
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