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How much consideration do you give to your print collateral? It's easy to get swept up in the online environment. A recent blog post from Joe Pulizzi suggests it might be time to reconsider the importance of print in your content marketing strategy Read More

Don’t charge the hill until you are “ready.” This probably seems obvious to military types, but I see entrepreneurs violating this rule all the time. They approach key potential investors way too early, trying to talk their way up the hill, with no supporting business plan, and before they have a support team around them. Needless to say, they get shot down, and get no second chance Read More

Like it or not, email is still a major business and personal communication vehicle, just like telephone calls. Your business and your integrity are being judged every day by your responsiveness to emails, and no one likes to do business with a dead-letter box. Unresponsive people and businesses lose friends and customers quickly Read More

A recent report on entrepreneurship by the Kauffman Foundation showed that people 55-64 years old experienced a large increase in business-creation rate Read More

While Linked-in is acknowledged as the premier business-oriented social networking site, many people look at it as a simple online CV or resume. But Linked-in is greatly underrated as a place to showcase your talents, grow your capabilities, and develop new business opportunities. Read More

Could a deal reportedly being hammered out between Google and Verizon spell trouble for small businesses marketing content online? One news report (in the New York Times) claims the agreement could allow different tiers of service for content providers. The story claims "Google and Verizon, two leading players in Internet service and content, are nearing an agreement that could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content’s creators are willing to pay for the privilege." Could this mean having to pay an Internet provider for faster loading of your content, something likely to benefit larger companies with deeper pockets? Google is denying some of what has been reported and both companies claim the move won't affect the level playing field enjoyed by all content providers and users (including small businesses and their customers.) What do you think Read More

Perhaps never before in business has anyone been able to succeed so much by using so little!

Lessons abound from this 80s television classic. It's about resourcefulness, wit, improvisation, bootstrapping, and making the most out of limited resources.

Learn to succeed...the MacGuyver Way Read More

What makes a video go viral? No, we're not talking about something like the common cold or flu here. We're talking about an online video that is so popular with viewers that they feel the need to share it with their friends, colleagues or family via social media like Twitter or Facebook, or through e-mail or re-posting it on their blog or Website. Having your video go viral is often the ultimate goal of any online marketing campaign because it is a way of letting others spread your message with limited expense or effort on your part and allows you to reach a potentially huge audience as your viewers share the message with their network and those people share it with their network and so on and so on 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

Give, and you get back. If you are an expert in your field and manage to extract huge sums of money for your time, giving a percentage of that time for free will empower both you and the receiver. What comes around, goes around.. Read More