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Social media sites like BizSugar.com and others are amazingly powerful tools helping to gain visibility for your business, product, service or topic. But first it is important to know the basics of being a good social media citizen. Here are 10 dos and don’ts to be sure you give your social media c Read More

In this franchise business article series, I've explored several popular reasons that people buy franchises. Most folks that buy franchises want to make a pretty big change in their lives, bring in a nice income,and possibly even build some equity.... Read More

Being a startup is frustrating. Better yet, it sucks! It sucks because you have big dreams but those dreams don't line up with reality...yet. It goes much slower than it should. Any inevitably out come frustration... Read More

The majority of people in business are aware of this thing called follow up. Many don't really practice it (huge missed opportunity) but those that do, simple send that simple email with a message in the lines of great to meet you yesterday... Read More

Social media is finally being utilized more and more by small businesses of all types. The franchise industry is even using it to some extent. food franchises seem to do well with their social media strategy... Read More

A few days ago I wrote a post about the importance of testing to make better strategic decisions online. Testing is important BUT is it the gaps in data where experience and insight = competitive advantage? I think so. Read More

When Kevin Hale and his co-founders Chris and Ryan launched their site Wufoo.com, they had a dedicated community of 30,000 people paying attention. Watch my interview above with Kevin to learn how Wufoo built their community before launch and why Kevin thinks that’s so important. If you can’t see Read More

So you've created a Facebook Page with all of the greatest gadgets and gizmos. You've conquered the world. You have the best FanPage on the block. You promoted your FanPage with a Facebook Ad. You paid people $10.00 for liking your page. Now you have a g'zillion Facebook fans.

All you have t Read More

No way, no how. Business opportunities, (or biz opps, as they're sometimes called) are not franchise opportunities. Are you picking up what I'm putting down, here? About a year ago, I got in a little online tiff with a gentleman... Read More

In Part 5 of this series on popular reasons for buying a franchise, I brought up something that's invisible at first, but starts to appear, as your franchise business starts to grow; equity. Equity is a great thing! Read More