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The smartphone is rapidly accelerating the convergence of computing and telephony and taking the phone as a converged music player, gaming device, camera, GPS navigator, web browser and wallet to another level. Read More

Over the past few days, I’ve been participating in a loss review with one of my clients. It was a painful loss, it was a major opportunity, with a prestigious customer. The winner would lock up the business for the foreseeable future. My client had been pursuing this opportunity for over a year. The sale was for a relatively complex piece of capital equipment. The support teams had done many demonstrations and tests, they had made modifications to the base software to support customer requirements. Through the entire process, they were neck to neck with the competition. In the end, they were even slightly lower priced. Read More

How important is social media---Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.---to your small business? Well, not necessarily as important as some of your core activities like providing services and products as this amusing video reminds u Read More

Scott Fox posts regularly here at BizSugar, but I thought I'd take a moment to highlight this particularly great video he's created for his online business community, great because it states something that should be obvious to everyone in small business, but perhaps isn't. You WILL need to market your product or service and market it well to stand out from the crowd and be successful in your small business. Marketing is not a dirty word. It MUST be part of your business plan. DON'T make the mistake of thinking a great product or service will market itself. Make sure you have a plan for how to get the word out. Read More

In our creative endeavors, it’s hard to believe that we absolutely need a schedule or some sort of system to do our best work. After all, Pablo Picasso got to work on his own schedule and he did just fine Read More

An Article that presents common problems in intellectual property of written articles in the web. This also presents recommendations on how to address these common problems Read More

If you want your visitors to take action while visiting your site, you've got to tell them what they need to do. Otherwise, they come, stay a bit, and leave. Here's how to help your site get some much needed action.. Read More

Twitter is all about building relationships with your followers, whether it be through a company account or personal account. Many small businesses have trouble gaining a following which results in abandoning their Twitter profiles. This is based on user error and how the account is managed. Users that lack Twitter knowledge and fail to put the time and effort into learning the fundamentals are usually the first to quit and decide to never go back. The secret to success on Twitter isn’t genius though, it is common sense. Small businesses need to put themselves in the shoes of their followers and try to add value to their lives. The following are some general mistakes on Twitter, which definitely result in not getting followed back or even unfollowed Read More

Looking for some input on which smartphone to buy. Do I go with loyalty, or stretch and convert? Take a read and have your say Read More

The business sector is slowly gaining enough ground to recover from the economic downturn. With ingenuity, perseverance and competitiveness, small businesses now have the means to emerge victorious in international markets Read More