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James Chen, a venture capitalist and blogger at Pure VC, suggests that government should be run like a business, especially in economic hard times. Unfortunately, he says that both the state government in California and the U.S. federal government have chosen to do what businesses know is unwise, trying to raise revenue either to cover budget defi Read More

Great tips from Guy Kawasaki on email forms, site search, chicklets (bookmark type), and other ideas to make your site customer friendly and smart. Read More

Readers where asked to contribute their best Twitter small business tips. The collected tips were compiled into one free downloadable PDF document. Read More

BingTweets combines Twitter trends with Bing search results, enabling users to see deeper, real-time information about the hottest topics on Twitter. Search for anything in the BingTweets search box (at the top right of every page) and see Bing search results alongside the most recent related tweets. Read More

One of the major push backs I get surrounding twitter use for business involves the idea of ROI. It's a genuine concern and something that can feel very hard to measure for most businesses. It's rare when someone can effectively attract followers and blatantly sell something to that at the same time. In most social media settings it just doesn't w Read More

If you are trying to figure out Twitter, read this post. If you are getting flack for sending out the wrong type of messages or not getting responses at all, read this post. Margie does a great job of reminding us of the basics. Read More

The more you know about your customer's world the more you can help them get what they want out of life. To some degree, no matter what we sell, that's the ultimate goal of serving a customer. Smart sales folks have always made it a habit of discretely discovering everything they can about prospects and customers to find more and more ways to make Read More

If you are a small business owner that are thinking of getting into social media marketing, make sure that you have read these 5 social media marketing pitfalls beginners must avoid. Read More

Small businesses in Lee County, Florida (Fort Myers), are all a twitter over engaging with locals above and beyond the traditional means. As discussed in a News-Press story, small businesses are using Twitter to promote lunch specials, entertainment information, weekly activities and even Tweetups, which merge the online world with the offline wor Read More

If you have a small business, you know there are only so many hours in the day to get things done. You know there are also all sorts of little mindless tasks that you never do that could improve the quality of your business. Start making better use of that time than hanging out on YouTube watching cats play Parcheesi. Read More