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I meet with executives everyday. They have great knowledge about their businesses–they can cite everything about their strategies, priorities, goals, key metrics. They study their competitors incessantly, understanding their strategies and positioning. They study their markets, and the best study their customers. They have deep insight about everything in their industry Read More

What is the main purpose you blog? Perhaps it is to make money. Or it might be to spread information. It might be to change people’s minds or just to rant. Or it could be to have fun. Even though your blog is serious business, it's time to put the fun back into blogging. Put on your smiles and follow these tips to being a more fun-loving blogger Read More

Not everything you try in sales will work the first time, nor will it work every time. And not everything that fails should be abandoned. It takes years of studying and learning the rules to know when and how to break them. And that only works sometimes Read More

University of Pennsylvania researchers confirm what many online (and offline) marketers know we need to do, but find so difficult to accomplish. Essentially, to get people to engage with and recommend our content, the content has to go beyond the mundane and capture imagination and awe Read More

I hate it when people think just because they have a fancy job title that it qualifies them automatically as a leader. We don’t see this issue too much with small businesses, but more with your big brand businesses. So what if you’re the CEO, President, Director of whatever – if you don’t have what people gravitate towards, then you really have no power with the company you are supposed to be in charge of. We see more people flock to those that are the true leaders of a company because they possess the knowledge, right character and the simple fact that they care about people without having the big fancy title. This makes them the authority figure that is going to make the big boss sweat. Big brands need to take another lesson from the small business owners on this one. If you truly want to be the go to person in your company here are a few things you will need to know.
Question Of The Day:
What qualities do you think a leader must have Read More

Competing on price is a no win situation that gets you stuck with numerous vendors. Here is how to compete on value Read More

Here’s what I learned: It’s critically important to be unreasonable.

Unreasonable defined: You want something you can’t have.

When you think “I need this sale” you’re being reasonable. Stop it. Try this thought on instead: “I need a business where I’m not needy of anything.”

Being unreasonable is an entrepreneurial necessity. Be the person you WANT to be, but “can’t” be for whatever reason.. Read More

What do you think? Help us improve the list of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats about social medi Read More

A recent report funded by the U.S. Small Business Administration and the Office of Advocacy, titled, “The Nonemployer Start-up Puzzle”, published in December, 2009 differentiates Nonemployer firms—businesses without employees—and Employer firms. Nonemployer firms represent a large percentage of businesses; however, little is known about their dynamics (entry and exit). The report seeks to illustrate basic statistics about the prevalence of entry and exit for Nonemployers and the local conditions that led to their entry Read More

The amount of WordPress Plugins available for download are endless, to sift through them and find one or two that you can actually use can be horrendous. Here is the most comprehensive list of all the WordPress plugins you need as of today to maximize the potential of your own blog Read More