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There are ways to make sure that the economic decisions that you make are not going to hurt you in the end. With a little bit of qualified advice, you should be able to manage your own budget with confidence and ease. Read More

A new report by Inside Facebook discusses some best practices for retailers hoping to set up shop on the popular social networking site. Some of the recommendations include letting users shop from within Facebook, including even the ability to share product information with friends. Another suggestion is to have contests, giveaways and sweepstake Read More

It's been an unusual week in social media, most notable because many of us had to learn to live without it. A DDoS attack targeting Twitter (Twitter), Facebook (Facebook), LiveJournal and many other sites knocked the leading micro-messaging service offline and caused numerous problems with the leading social network, too. Read More

A Web seminar in Royal Oak will help to teach businesses about the use of social media. “You CAN Measure Social Media: True Tales from the Social Media Measurement Trenches” is being hosted by the Detroit chapter of the International Association of Business Communications. Read More

Entrepreneur Dharmesh Shah of the blog On Startups offers this interesting post on how to hire sales people. The post includes a formidable list of 14 tips Shah says he gathered from observing sales teams he has observed that work pretty well, including the one at hi us own software marketing startup HubSpot. Though Shah's company is definitely a Read More

Here are some small business tips for social media from BizCentral USA. Many small business remain confused about precisely how to use social media sites like Facebook and LinkedIn top develop relationships with customers and business partners. The post gives a simple overview of the top few of what may be well over a hundred big sites with more s Read More

Take Denise O'Berry's Facebook small business 101 and learn how to promote your business on the rapidly growing social network. Sure you have a Facebook identity for your business or service but have you used your Facebook account to create fans for your yourself or your company? Denise shows you step by step how to use Facebook fan pages for yo Read More

What is it about your use of Twitter, or blogging, or Facebook, or video, or any other combination of social media tools and tactics ,that you believe makes them actually work for your small business? What does not work? How do you manage your time around all this? Here are some answers to these questions. Read More

No matter what type of job we do or where we work, we all come in contact with negative, difficult people at some point. Our basic instinct tells us to fight back, defend ourselves, and react to their negativity with negative remarks of our own. However, we are human beings with the ability to control our responses. Read More

How do you go about creating a small business with Zazzle, one of a number of new Websites offering content upload and sale of designs for T-shirts, mugs, hats etc. at no initial cost. Bonnie at Squidoo gives some tips in this great lens and even a list of Websites where you can publicize your creations. The possibilities seem endless for a design Read More