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With 2015 half gone, you can continue your annual plan to improving your marketing by looking for ways to experiment. New technologies, services and strategies are popping up every day and now is the perfect time to do a little research and dip your toe into new pools. Read More

If you handle your company’s sales, could you stand to bone up on better sales skills? I’m willing to bet there’s room for improvement. To that end, here are some resources you should bookmark to become a better salesperson this month. Read More

If you're serious about staying on top of tech trends, consider these marketing strategy updates to get ready for the smartwatch. Read More

Here are few business leadership questions that should set any leader thinking, and meant to act as starting points for a leader’s journey towards greatness Read More

Whenever you hire a new employee, you should always issue a new hire press release. You should be proud of this talented individual you’ve brought on board, and telling the world about it can have some pretty amazing benefits. Read More

I write about productivity on other blogs, and occasionally here, and wanted to share with you some of the best resources and tips I’ve found for managing your time, no matter what area of your small business you’re working on. Read More

The ability to negotiate is essential in the business marketing environment. It may be a personal mission; such as negotiating a pay rise. It may even be for business reasons such as to negotiate a new contract with a key supplier, seller or advertiser. If this skill is not mastered it is likely th Read More

Whether you work from home or run your business elsewhere, having your kids at home for three months can create a logistical problem that can threaten your small business’s productivity during the summer. Read More

I will argue that press releases are an essential part of a good marketing and public relations strategy. But it occurred to me: what do journalists and reporters think of them? Are they accomplishing what we want them to (getting the attention of the media and making them clamor to write about our Read More

There are too many people out there doing a horrible job of pitching journalists and bloggers with their news. There’s no excuse. If you do these five steps, you should be able to get the media’s attention (assuming your news is actually newsworthy in the first place). Read More