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A tiny apartment in New York City sometimes yields very large things. In this case, it's a big idea for a small business run by Sam Feuer. MindSmack is a website design business but it's completely farmed out to a group of other home-based designers. Read More

So, you're working hard on SEO. You want that higher ranking. Rankings rankings! Nothing else matters! Then, suddenly, your organic traffic is going up, but your sales aren't. You could fire your SEO firm. Clearly your search engine optimization efforts are a flop. I mean, all they did was generate more traffic, right? Or, you could consider oth Read More

Craig's List founder Craig Newmark interviewed live about the early days and success of Craig's List, financing the business and bringing on management to take it to the next level. Read More

Nearly 30% of online adults will immediately leave a website if they perceive it to be cluttered with ads, and more than 75% of those who remain on cluttered sites pay less attention to the ads there. Cluttered sites not only annoy the audience, they diminish ad effectiveness and ultimately do a disservice to the publisher, the advertiser and Read More

Display and search are directly correlated, judging by a Specific Media study of comScore data. Brand- and segment-related searches (for cars, automakers and vehicle classes) jumped by more than 100% in several categories after consumers were exposed to display ads for those brands. Search clickers exposed to display advertising were 22% more Read More

Don't panic, but you may be exposing all of your information to hackers by using Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Ok, maybe there is room for panic, however don't fret about it too much because the company is uncharacteristically issuing an emergency fix outside their regularly scheduled release dates. Read More

Peter Montoya and Tim Vandeyeh, authors of "The Brand Called You," tell small retailers what they can do to lure customers away from big boxes and to their stores. Read More

Your 10 point guide to obtaining angel or VC investment for your business - from cmypitch.com - the social network for entrepreneurs. Read More

One of the most insidious by-products of times like these, after the waves of belt tightening and budget/staff cutting, are the long and painful late payments. When business slows, payments to vendors get stretched. You can do everything else right but get this wrong and your business will grind to a halt. So, let's focus on getting you paid fa Read More

Believe it or not, an economic downturn is a good time to start a business. There are openings in competitive markets and breaks on start-up costs and overhead. Read More