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Oh My, a cat twitters? Because, after all, users believe other users, more than they believe corporations or sponsors or marketers or advertisers or whatever you want to call the people who actively try to sell them stuff. Even if those other users are cats. Or pets of some kind. Interesting indeed! Read More

Most go out and write a business plan. Business plans are great tools in planning your business as well as thinking through all of the small things that business owners have to deal with each and every day. They are very good road maps for a business owner. But, there is one thing that almost all new business owners miss - and that is their person Read More

“Traditionally business decisions about product lines, hiring/firing employees, and raises are made by analyzing trends, and mapping out decisions made in the past,” Markworth said. “Today's business world changes too quickly, and so we've developed a tool that will allow a real time report that projects the impact of the decisions made into the f Read More

Would you agree? This article speaks of pure traffic without needing SEO to rank in Google? As an online business owner, do you agree? Read More

Okay, so even I'm getting tired of talking about Twitter at this point, but a new article from AdAge claims that Twitter could be the killer application SMB owners have dreamed about. And to make things even more exciting, the article comes complete with something most social media hype pieces don't — actual stats and data! -- From Lisa Barone Read More

If you honestly evaluate your advertising using the five questions in this message, one of two things will happen: You'll discover that your advertising provides compelling and powerful answers to each and every question. If so, congratulations—you're in the top 1% of all small business advertisers, and you're achieving amazing results from your a Read More

Last fall, Google implemented what it calls its "Quality Score" for AdWords advertisers. Improving your Quality Score can mean that your ad can be placed higher up in the search results at a lower cost per click. As a rule, the higher up in the list of ads your page appears, the more likely it is that someone will click your ad and visit your si Read More

There is an important rule of thumb that many of us “social media consultants” fail to tell our clients. Malcolm Gladwell talked about it in his book Outliers: “Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.” — Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers) One thing we have found with working on social media campaigns Read More

Great list of helpful Web 2.0 services. Read More

Done right business plans aren't something you use to lure investors and then stick in the bottom of your desk drawer. Rather, they become living documents that guide your business, keep you on course, and -- yes -- adapt as your businesses changes. But too often, business plans are rife with problems -- expert Tim Berry breaks down the top 10. Read More