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Have you ever considered what your signature says about you? One of the most famous signatures revealed a courageous patriot. John Hancock intentionally signed his name to the Declaration of Independence with a flourish, indicating his support for the American Revolution from British rule. Even now, “putting your John Hancock” is a euphemism for signing your name. While it’s unlikely any of our digital signatures will pack that much punch, we can definitely make good use of the real estate under our name. Read More

101 Marketing Strategies is a series of videos and interviews with REAL-LIFE examples of people that are executing smarter, faster, cheaper marketing. Read More

This is an article I wrote about problems I discovered by simply going to my online store website and acting like a customer. The truth is that I rely on Google Analytics way too much and check my stats way too often. Read More

There’s been a lot of talk about Facebook’s privacy mess for days now. I bet we all know the story, right? Privacy controls are broken, everyone is getting irritated, and Facebook’s not too concerned, blah flippidy-freakin’ blah blah. Honestly, I’m getting sick of hearing people making a big fuss that they’re quitting Facebook on May 31. Read More

In a crazed, ultra-competitive business-world filled with mind-numbing technological leaps, "low-tech" can be a great way to restore a sense of relaxation, revitalization and rejuvenation. It's back-to-basics in my latest biz-blog article.. Read More

It all sounds easy to develop your key message, just work out why should customers do business with you, why aren’t they and your brand personality. The problem with this approach is that it is all about you and it is looking inside out instead of outside in. Two key areas you need to consider first are Read More

There's still time, just barely, to win a scholarship worth $200 allowing you to attend the Small Biz Social Media Summit June 5-6 in Hutchinson, Kansas. Decisions on the scholarship will be made May 21. (That's this Friday.) For details read the full post on the upcoming event in this post at Small Business Trends. There is also a link to information on how to simply make arrangements to attend the event. BizSugar.com is a media sponsor for the event, by the way. Hope you can take part Read More

Flowtown, a company that offers businesses a social media platform for engaging consumers across the internet, and NetProspex combined forces to create a list of the top 50 most social companies in the US. The list, named “NetProspex Social 50”, was developed by looking at the social network usages of employees and ranking the top companies by overal social media activity. The score is based on the average number of friends/connections across the major social networking sites and the average number of tweets, user following and followers per employee Read More

Language is the vehicle for transmitting knowledge, and today in our world, knowledge is one of the key factors in gaining your competitive edge Read More

How to promote, market and ultimately sell online without looking like a jerk or coming off as “too salesly” or “self-promoting" with David Siteman Garland Read More