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Social media marketing is not all about pushing promotions and hoping they go viral. It is more than that. Read More

Win $150 in a small business contest sponsored by bizSugar.com. We've teamed up with our good friends over at SmallBizBee.com to offer a $150 prize for this year's small business and entrepreneurship essay contest. Entry requirements, rules and details are available through the link below. Also be sure to watch for a post on the bizSugar blog to Read More

I'm a big fan of the newish Twitter List function. I wrote about it last week — 5 Reasons to Use the New Twitter Lists Feature Now that I've you pumped up about using lists, I want to talk about a few tools that I think can make the feature even more useful. Read More

Bob Gilbreath, chief marketing strategist at Bridge Worldwide, says to create niche marketing that improves peoples lives. The more meaningful you make your marketing, he says, the more people are willing to pay for your products or services. Here are the things meaningful marketers know. Read More

This report by CNN Money.com Small Business examines the role played by small business as the "backbone" of the economic recovery. Though over half of all workers in the U.S. are employed by small businesses loans to this sector by banks in recent months since the economic downturn has fallen noticeably...despite economic assistance poured into Read More

In a fit of collaboration goodness I would like to gift one set of seven awesome books to the person that most creatively answers the following: I get the biggest return for my business using social media when I [fill in the blank] I'm the only judge and I'm going to pick the answer I like the best. But, here's what you'll get if you win. Read More

Interesting question posed about the impracticality and impossibilty of a software business qualifying as a "lifestyle" business. Read More

The energetic Ramon Ray of Smallbiztechnology.com talks about how to get free publicity for your small business. Besides advertising, Ray says in this presentation, gaining media coverage may be the best method of gaining not only publicity but also credibility for your product or service. Ray suggests an approach that looks at the news process an Read More

Melania Attia shares 10 tips for better small business e-mail marketing at the 2009 Small Business Summit. Among her suggestions are to avoid buying mailing lists, establish personal relationships with customers and be sure to keep e-mails brief and to the point. Attia also stresses the importance of complying with customer wishes when asked to ce Read More

What can take you out of working IN your business so you can work ON your business? Business Intelligence tools. This is a primer for small and medium-sized business on what Business Intelligence is and how it can help them get a handle on all their moving parts so they can grow to the next level. Read More