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The submission is for a blog post I recently wrote for YakAboutIt.com...I hope you find it useful in your entrepreneurial journeys!

Entrepreneurship can be an emotional roller coaster. However, much like life itself, if you develop the right relationships, it is reassuring and comforting to know that you are not heading out on the journey alone (unless you’re a jerk).

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Sometimes the best approach to improving sales with a certain group of prospects is to tell them to buy. This group of prospects tend to be followers, not leaders. They are pleasers. They are easily confused. They often tend towards being Read More

An incredible list of 52 small business tips from Canada Small Business at About.com including an index of links to small business articles covering everything from "basic e-mail management" to "phone answering tips to win business" and everything else in between. The index represents a great cross section of tips large and small in an effort to make your small business better. Each link within t Read More

This video from FastBusinessProfits.com looks at "the power of free" in small business marketing strategies. Basically, this is the idea that giving something of value away helps with the marketing process. Though I think the first example given of using free bread, cookies and other pastries to market a bakery is nothing short of brilliant, I think this strategy works best when the thing being g Read More

At a high level I suppose I understood authenticity to be about being honest and true to ones own values and beliefs, but in reality I think this was a little bit simplistic — in my experience many of us work in complex, politically orientated workplaces where complete honesty and openness are not often possible, practical or effective. So how do Read More

New Federal Trade Commission guidelines regarding the use of customer testimonials and endorsements in advertising will start December 1, 2009. Read More

Amazing WordPress plugin that lets you make your blog a membership site. Easy to use, you can set multiple levels and leave some content open to your blog remains a blog. Also useful is the ability to use the WordPress -more- command as the point where the content becomes available by level. Read More

Companies that duck the immediate dangers of the economic downturn and put themselves in a position to jump at any opportunity to recover once the dust settles will be the ones on top in the end, says Steven S. Little, author of the new book Duck and (Re)Cover: The Embattled Business Owners Guide to Survival and Growth. Read More

Learn more about what's myth and what's fact when it comes to link building in Part 2 of our discussion on website SEO. Read More

Don't you wish you had a chart so you could position yourself relative to others in your industry, just like the Gartner Magic Quadrant? Read on to find out how... Read More