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What should you do with your advertising budget in a down economy? It's probably the opposite of what you might think Read More

If long ignored items are piling up at the bottom of your to-do list, the problem may be less procrastination or your dreaded duties and more how you actually write your list. Read More

Matt Rodela, of Your Friendly Neighborhood Computer Guy, on the relationship between his blog and his business. Read More

Rewarding the families of high achievers goes a long way toward job satisfaction, motivation and loyalty. Whether the reward is small or large doesn't matter. What does is making employees feel like a superstar in front of their families and outwardly recognizing their families' sacrifices, with gifts or tokens of appreciation. If families bette Read More

As an online business, it is important not to look past your local audience. As a brick and mortar business, your local audience might even be your entire audience. Your presence in Google Maps is important. You (should) know that by now. Keeping this in mind, Google has introduced some improvements to its AdWords local business ads for Google Read More

This article really describes a problem hundreds of businesses deal with daily. Who has time to manage employees playing the blame game? What a better way to deal with constant "cover your a**." Great Article for any business manager or CEO. Read More

Craig's List founder Craig Newmark interviewed live about the early days and success of Craig's List, financing the business and bringing on management to take it to the next level. Read More

Nearly 30% of online adults will immediately leave a website if they perceive it to be cluttered with ads, and more than 75% of those who remain on cluttered sites pay less attention to the ads there. Cluttered sites not only annoy the audience, they diminish ad effectiveness and ultimately do a disservice to the publisher, the advertiser and Read More

Display and search are directly correlated, judging by a Specific Media study of comScore data. Brand- and segment-related searches (for cars, automakers and vehicle classes) jumped by more than 100% in several categories after consumers were exposed to display ads for those brands. Search clickers exposed to display advertising were 22% more Read More

How people build their business with little money and a lot of tenacity. Read More