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Five forecasted mobile marketing trends for 2010 are explored in detail, including text marketing and the use of barcodes, by Paul Rosenfeld of Fanminder Read More

Marketing, perhaps the most important function in a business, often gets pushed to the end of the to do list by whatever seemingly urgent needs that crop up during the day. To give marketing the attention it deserves you must make the practice a habit Read More

Friday a teenager rang my doorbell. Usually when kids come to my door they're trying to sell me crap that I don't want, but as I prepared to say "no thanks" he let me know that his motives were not financial. He told me he was in a group for young entrepreneurs, and as part of an effort to practice speaking in public his assignment was to go door-to-door and introduce himself.. Read More

After almost a month’s absence here is another review of the business articles I enjoyed reading on BizSugar over the past week. As usual I’m sharing the links with some of the thoughts they inspired related to international business Read More

Each of us has the ability to rationalize their lack of performance, and it is easy to fall into the trap of telling ourselves lies when our performance isn’t what we want it to be. We behave in a way that is consistent with what we believe—even when these beliefs aren’t based on the truth. Improved performance means recognizing when we are lying to ourselves, and then adopting more powerful beliefs Read More

Okay, I know that you may be thinking that Blackhat SEO is something practiced by a teensy tiny minority…but it’s the “how they do it” that is most troubling, and my hat’s off to SOPHOS for exposing this for us.

SOPHOS is the anti-virus, security company with more than 100 million users globally and yes, we use their products our own selves but did NOT receive anything for this article... Read More

Do you ever feel like a fraud when you succeed? You're not alone: many successful entrepreneurs feel undeserving of success. Here's how to beat it Read More

Be prepared for next year, and run your freelancing business more smoothly, with these helpful tax tips Read More

This article identifies three very common organizational communication issues that can lead to a low-morale, low-trust work environment.

There are three specific examples of how the issue was originally brought to the attention of the organization's leaders, what the original intent of the communication was and then how the underlying, real issue was brought to the surface so it could be fixed.

The 3 examples are from a real client case study and were all identified in one three-hour employee meeting to begin transforming the agency to develop a "Championship Culture Read More

Marketing podcast with Liz Strauss (Click to play or right click and “Save As” to download – Subscribe now via iTunes

Liz StraussMy guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast is Liz Strauss, CEO and founder of SOBCon and author of the popular Successful-Blog.com. We talk about social media, of course, the upcoming SOBCon Conference in Chicago (April 30), and the blending of online and offline worlds – my current favorite topic Read More