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Retaining employees is going to get harder for your small business as the economy improves. Anyone who’s feeling stalled or frustrated at your business is likely to look for better opportunities at a company that offers more chance for advancement. One of the key advantages big companies have alway Read More

Even though I find it hard to believe that a company going forward into 2011 would not be willing to participate in social media, I guess there will always be a few still on the fence waiting to dive in. Here is what companies are missing by not using social media Read More

The days of the Comment Box on the wall is over. Today there are hundreds of ways for consumers to let businesses (and their customers) know what they think in excruciating detail. But smart businesses encourage this type of activity. Read More

25 Ways to Prospect for New Business By, Deborah Shane “Inspire rather than push the sale by being serve centric rather than sales centric”- Did you know Read More

Does it always seem that someone else is more successful than you in their virtual assistant business? I know sometimes it's hard to hear about all those virtual assistants with too many clients, or those virtual assistants (VAs) all making six figures when you are barely surviving. Don't you alway Read More

Maybe it’s my age, but I’m finally able to confront the fact that there are a few business lessons that are:

* Unquestionably true
* Have been taught to me by mentors, customers and various & sundry successful, experienced executives
* Have been beaten into me by the relentless for Read More

If you’re an inbound marketer and you haven’t checked out Quora yet, you probably should. Quora is a simple, no frills Q & A site with a twist. It’s really fast, and it’s full of real, bonafide thought leaders. Quora is the new kid on the block, the new coffee shop on the corner that everybody’s ta Read More

Getting fast backlinks to the new articles is vital for reaching on Google First Pages with the choose keyword and straightening the position. Read More

We would all love a blog post that goes ‘viral’ and gets a lot of attention. Some of us want it so bad we dream of it and how to make it happen. A blog post that makes you go wow, that’s good stuff, I need to do that and I need to do that right now. A blog post that stops you dead in your tracks. Read More

One of the biggest red flags I see in many Internet-related business plans today is advertising as the initial revenue stream, or a key part of it. If challenged, the founder usually cites the Facebook business model (free service to users, revenue from ads), but forgets that Facebook has had sever Read More