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it’s time for another round of the Sugartone “Sweet Business Blogging Contest”, a competition in which we are again collaborating with our good friends at Bloggertone, the business blogging community.This time our theme will be “Making your business amazing” and we’re also happy to announce the sponsorship of Hewlett-Packard with some fantastic prizes for the winners of the contes Read More

The internet, and specifically the rise of social media, has made it even easier for folks to pursue ruthless ambition to succeed online. A major part of online success is being able to see through the smoke and mirrors that many personalities put up around themselves.

With the internet making anonymity and disguise so simple, many people set up illusions that simply aren’t themselves. I often compare this to the classic 70s game show, “The Dating Game.” It’s easy to sit behind the partition and try to impress the “contestant” with how charming and clever you are. But sooner or later, they will step around the partition – that’s the moment of truth. Will they be surprised with what they find Read More

We can all dream about what it takes to make our startup a success. From recent survey feedback, it seems evident that the urban legends leading to success are wrong. The average entrepreneur is not the one who dumped a promising career, sketched his idea on the back of a napkin, and accepted millions from an investor to make millions of his own. Read More

Learn why customer service is the real product lab for your business and why what most customers aren't saying desperately needs to be heard from the less than 1% who do Read More

While it’s tough to achieve widespread fame and popularity in the blogging world, it’s very possible to build a following, establish your reputation, improve your search rankings, and draw qualified traffic and leads to your site. The trick is to focus. Narrow your goals. Start small and build from there Read More

If you want exposure, your site to function better, and to remain high in the search rankings, Google can help. Here are five popular Google search engine optimization and website design tools your business should be using Read More

How to Pitch Your Business to Friends and Family: It's important to preserve relationships and protect everyone involved when tapping your family tree for funding Read More

Building better customer relationships is not just something that would be nice to do – it is something you must do if you expect to be successful in business today. This book contains 101 useful suggestions for maintaining and building relationships with your customers – starting with the next contact you make.

The 101 ways in this book are all about people and how they react or respond to others. Most of the ways deal with common courtesies that anyone would appreciate – for example, keep the customer in the communications loop, don’t put customers on hold, be accessible to the customer and do what you say you will. All of the ways boil down to good, common sense Read More

And then I realized – with the numerous members – the Funk Brothers aren’t just a band – but a small community that made some of the best music in American history together. Don’t forget, there were, depending on your standard, between 13 and over 70 funk brothers. What are the lessons your community (online or off – it’s the same in my book) can take away from the Funk Brothers Read More

I’m sure everyone now knows that if Facebook was a country, it’d be the third largest in the world. But....
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