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An in-depth discussion on the timely topic of health care. If you're self-employed or own a small business and are "in the market" for health insurance - here's some great advice for you. Read More

A new report by Inside Facebook discusses some best practices for retailers hoping to set up shop on the popular social networking site. Some of the recommendations include letting users shop from within Facebook, including even the ability to share product information with friends. Another suggestion is to have contests, giveaways and sweepstake Read More

It's been an unusual week in social media, most notable because many of us had to learn to live without it. A DDoS attack targeting Twitter (Twitter), Facebook (Facebook), LiveJournal and many other sites knocked the leading micro-messaging service offline and caused numerous problems with the leading social network, too. Read More

A Web seminar in Royal Oak will help to teach businesses about the use of social media. “You CAN Measure Social Media: True Tales from the Social Media Measurement Trenches” is being hosted by the Detroit chapter of the International Association of Business Communications. Read More

Twitter ruffled a few more journalistic feathers this week when American Idol judge Paula Abdul became the latest household name to usurp the breaking news power of traditional media by making a big announcement on the social networking site. Read More

Entrepreneur Dharmesh Shah of the blog On Startups offers this interesting post on how to hire sales people. The post includes a formidable list of 14 tips Shah says he gathered from observing sales teams he has observed that work pretty well, including the one at hi us own software marketing startup HubSpot. Though Shah's company is definitely a Read More

Here are some small business tips for social media from BizCentral USA. Many small business remain confused about precisely how to use social media sites like Facebook and LinkedIn top develop relationships with customers and business partners. The post gives a simple overview of the top few of what may be well over a hundred big sites with more s Read More

One of the most important keys to getting good placement in search engines is to get other websites to link to your site. Some of the techniques being used by online marketers and unscrupulous link-building "businesses" will build nothing but animosity for your business. Whether you do your own link-building, have one of your employees do it, or Read More

What is it about your use of Twitter, or blogging, or Facebook, or video, or any other combination of social media tools and tactics ,that you believe makes them actually work for your small business? What does not work? How do you manage your time around all this? Here are some answers to these questions. Read More

Regardless of whether it is in a relationship, a conversation or a business meeting, focusing is a skill that all entrepreneurs must have to be successful. This applies whether you run a face to face business or whether you are working on line. This applies whether you are listening to your significant other or closing a big deal before the clos Read More