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How agile is your marketing? Do you have layer upon layer of approval processes, committees, lawyers, and executives who need to sign off on every piece of external communication before it goes out? If yes, your business is structured for a pre-Internet world, and unfortunately this means you will always be at a disadvantage compared to agile com Read More

No matter what you do for a living, there's always an incentive to make more money. Maybe you're trying to pay off credit card bills, save up for something special, or have a little cushion should something unexpected happen in your life. It used to be that if you needed to make a bit of extra cash, you needed to pick up a second job, like bussing Read More

You surely must have heard of Twitter by now. It's all over the cable and network news, in newspapers, on TV commercials, and even on billboards. It's more than a trend, it's a movement. And it's time you got on board to put Twitter to work for your small business. Read More

A few years ago I stumbled onto a website called “Escape from Cubicle Nation.” At the time I remember thinking, 'this is the BEST name' for a target audience of corporate employees longing to start (or who had recently started) businesses of their own. I could identify with it. After all, I once had been in cubicle nation and left to start my o Read More

Learn about Google Apps and small business. Read More

There was as much grumbling about the Twitter-style format of the 140 Character Conference in New York this week as there often is about 140-character limit in Twitter itself. Anything new or different can drive some people up the wall. Others, however, embrace the newness and the challenge of doing something completely different, and that is where Read More

Marketing guru Seth Godin suggests "flipping the sales funnel". Instead of putting prospects in at the top of the funnel with the hope of getting some commissions at the bottom, flip the funnel, make it into a megaphone and let those who already love your product promote it for you. Read More

Venture Capital investor Fred Wilson talks about what he's learned from both marriage and business about building relationships. Read More

Content is king, and the best way to get people to link back to your website is to produce *remarkable* content. But what type of content is remarkable? In other words, what type of content naturally encourages others to link back? Here is a list of five types of content that anyone can produce to help you build links into your blog. Read More

Ayn Rand is probably turning over in her grave at this moment in capitalism. Her famous novel, “Atlas Shrugged,” foretells a time when Big Government gets out of control, stifling individual freedom and entrepreneurism. As economist Stephen Moore writes in the Wall Street Journal, the events of 2008 and 2009 sound strikingly similar to the eve Read More