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“Three out of 4 small business owners found a green vendor to be more appealing than a non-green vendor if the service and price are the same.” This statement comes from PayCycle, a payroll service from Palo Alto serving 85,000 small businesses. Recently they did a survey of 202 randomly chosen businesses from among their customer base, and th Read More

Problems start when what's online isn't accurate, isn't yours, or worse, isn't yours anymore. When your online identity — including your content (written, video, or images) or even your brand — gets hijacked it can hurt you in the same way that the “fatty paycheck” hurt the job candidate for Cisco. When data posted online won't go away or even whe Read More

How do you deal with negative word of mouth? Embrace it. Because it's a part of you. Your story. Your history. Enter Pizzeria Delfina in San Francisco. They, like just about all restaurants, get reviewed on Yelp. And, like just about all restaurants, they get some weird, negative reviews peppered in with the good ones. But what did Delfina Read More

Deceptive SEO companies use 'black hat' or unethical techniques to get your site to the top of the search engine rankings. The techniques may work well in the short term and bring lots of traffic or great rankings. However, over time they won't produce good, lasting results — or worse — they may get you banned from search engines. And once penaliz Read More

Small businesses will soon feel a little more love in their love-hate relationship with Yelp, the Web site whose users post reviews of restaurants, dry cleaners and other local businesses. Starting next week, Yelp will let small-business owners publicly respond to reviews. This is a big change for the site, which has until now steadfastly refus Read More

Qualifying your customers effectively will lead to sales growth. Read More

Wouldn't it be helpful to know what topics publications would be covering throughout the year, so you could offer story ideas that would tie into those topics? The goal, of course, would be to get publicity for you or your business. Read More

It's great to be trusting. However, your responsibility to your company, your staff, your clients, and yourself is to be sure you've done what you can to protect what you've worked so hard to achieve. Being a business owner means being realistic and responsible. You don't want to have that responsibility thrust upon you as the result of the la Read More

I enjoy the OPEN Forum by American Express and I found this post to be inspirational. It highlights other well-known entrepreneurs and how they got their start and kept going despite obstacles. Worth a read. Read More

undreds of Twitter applications can be found on numerous sites that offer cool tools to help you manage the way you use Twitter. If you use Twitter for marketing your small business, I sorted thru tons of apps to bring you the most helpful. Read More