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The first flush of New Year's Resolutions has worn off. Are you still on task to meet your goals? Or is this going to be another year where your business runs you, instead of the other way around? Here are 12 things that Small Business Trend's Anita Campbell is doing this year to upgrade her business. Ask yourself if these ideas could apply Read More

Gmail lab feature “Multiple Inboxes” allows you to have more than one 'inbox' in your default Gmail view. You can have up to 5 additional panels and set them to display labels, your starred messages, drafts or any search you want next to your inbox. Here is how to start using Multiple Inboxes and 7 great things you can do with it. Read More

“How do you make sure you're networking, instead of notworking?” I think it's getting harder to know where that line is. With today's social media — especially sites with lots of interactivity and immediate feedback such as Twitter — you can easily get caught up in chatting and surfing. It's a constant mental interruption. Before you know it, you' Read More

Clearly Google is the big competitor of Microsoft in search and though we play in search Google has more to lose. However, this post isn't about my desire to see Microsoft win or Google lose. It's about the changing landscape of the Internet and search. I actually don't think Google has that much to fear from Twitter—at least for some time. Read More

There are three things a CEO must do every day. 1.) Listen to your customers 2.) Talk with your employees 3.) Read Your Reports I've blogged separately about the first one, it's importance and slight priority over talking with your employees. Let's talk about the third one. Read More

Attracting more customers to your web site is the goal of SEO. But how can you succeed at SEO unless you understand how search engines work? In this informative article, best-selling author Scott Fox explains the "pattern matching" algorithms that power Google. Use this info to improve your search engine ranking and attract more visitors to Read More

At the beginning of each year, I like to take a spin around the virtual world and see what other designers predict as hot trends for site design. Read More

When you try to sell to everyone your efforts are too broad. You aren't focused and you soon are faced with failures, because you are wasting time trying to sell something without understanding the value in other people's eyes - or even whether they are truly a good fit for your product or service. In short, you aren't qualifying companies/indivi Read More

Have you ever thought about how your customer service can affect search results for your business? Before the Internet you could make a customer really mad and they couldn't do much about it. They could tell everyone they know not to go to that business, but eventually their anger would pass and they would move on. Their ability to hurt your bu Read More

Searching for a job can suck if you constrain yourself to the typical tools such as online jobs boards, trade publications, CraigsList, and networking with only your close friends. In these kinds of times, you need to use all the weapons that you can, and one that many people don't—or at least don't use to the fullest extent, is LinkedIn. Read More