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I told you in the last post that if you email me too much with your offers, I will unsubscribe. Period. Wondering why affiliate marketers suck? Read on....if you lie, cheat scam, you suck. Read More

Business growth, we chase it incessantly. While scaling is good, it is not the only way to grow your business.

Maybe you should stop chasing the "more" factor and look towards less. Read More

For many ecommerce merchants, email marketing remains a staple. In a recent interview with Practical eCommerce, Listrak CEO Ross Kramer said, "We just came back from Etail [trade show] this week, and from the retailers that I was talking to up there, email is driving 20 to 25 percent of their overa Read More

To my mind, the sole reason sales managers exist is to manage performance. It's to assure each person on their team is achieving the highest levels of performance and reaching their full potential. It's to assure their people can achieve their goals and objectives. There is simply no other reason t Read More

Last year Apple became the worlds most valuable brand, in no small part because of CEO Steve Jobs. Yesterday, Jobs resigned as CEO and today, the world has been taking in the news and wondering what is next for Apple... Read More

Is your business looking to hire? Well, consider these numbers:

Some 1 million military veterans are unemployed.
Among veterans who joined the military post-9/11, the jobless rate is 13.3 percent.
More than 1 million more service members are projected to leave the military between 2011 and 201 Read More

Developing sales in a new market or with a new business can be a daunting task. Luckily, there are trends and proven techniques. Here's how to load the envelope until it bursts open with results. Read More

Having relevant content (in the form of high quality comments) added to your webpages on a regular basis, without having to manually create it, is a great advantage over competitors who don't implement commenting features and don't turn their sites into a hive of content producing activity. Read More

Entrepreneurs always work hard to create an innovative product or service, but often count on standard seller marketing for sales. But the reality is that sellers are no longer in charge of the customer buying process. Recent reports suggest that 90% of today’s shoppers skip marketing pitches, to r Read More

Over at We Blog Better, Nick Stamoulis poses the question Does Your Company Really Need a Business Blog? He outlines 3 challenges that are real difficulties for small business. Do the advantages outweigh the problems? Read More