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If you run a small business, you know the power of networking. For business bloggers, it's important to actively participate in online blogging communities. Here are 5 blog communities, including BizSugar, every business blogger should join Read More

Here are five ways to bring the life back into your company so you and your staff begin to approach each day with renewed excitement and a burning desire to grow the business Read More

Ever make a sales call that went really, really well? That covered more topics than you had planned? All of which advanced your quest to deliver still more value to your client? (And increase your revenue?) But left a major new opportunity virtually un-discussed Read More

We continue to explore the BANTER approach. As we look at Need and Timelines, it is important to remember that at the end it comes down to how you execute Read More

Creating great, linkable content has real rewards (namely: traffic, authority, a competitive edge, and increased ROI). Don't believe me? Read this and see what you think Read More

Yes, for those of you who haven’t heard about the “merging” of the Bing search engine and the Yahoo search engine – yup…it’s happening now, eh!

Over the past year or so, after talks and deals being made, it was decided that from about mid-year or so in 2010, that the Yahoo search engine results would be supplied by the Bing search engine. We reported much more fully back in February on this here…. Read More

A look at the search engine marketing industry and what people are doing. Clearly the industry is doing well & is experiencing remarkable growth. A look at the attributes.
There’s a lot of talk about social media – often way too much. I understand…it’s the latest and greatest in web marketing, but let’s not get too carried away with it. In fact, for businesses interested in executing some really great Internet marketing programs, the more traditional approaches are still very strong and remain relevant – often having better exposure and more conversions. One of these traditional programs is search marketing and it might surprise you that even with all the latest advancements in Internet technologies, this specific industry is still growing Read More

I’m a strong believer that investors invest in people, before they invest in a business plan, or an idea. But until now, I’ve never seen a study of exactly how that plays out for startup founders for current venture-backed companies, specifically: race, age, experience and the number of founders per company Read More

As a small business owner we love to give credit to our people when it is deserved and there are a number of ways that can be done: Through the handwritten note, pay increase or a steak dinner. You pick, but can we do something more for the superstars on our company team? A lot of big companies like to use offline media publicity to reward their people for good work. For example, ESPN did a commercial congratulating Chris Bermen on his last award. Now why can’t we do something similar to showcase the hard work of our employees? Well most of us probably can’t do something similar to a TV commercial that ESPN did for Chris Berman, but we could use social media to showcase our people Read More

Are you using Google Insights to help you with your sales? Here is a how to article with a video to help you out Read More