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Is it Possible to Create a Business Startup Right After College?
Is it a good idea to create a business startup right after college?
Before you ask this question to an entrepreneur or your mentor, you need to find certain answers yourself. Becoming self-employed is a tough task, wherever you are in life.
It is even more difficult to stay afloat once you … Read More McAfee Hires Former Apple Executive to Oversee Small Business Market
When suffering a cyber attack, small businesses lack the resources of a larger company and face different challenges. In acknowledgement of this, global software security company McAfee has created a new senior vice president position to be in charge of the small and medium size business … Read More How to Use Google Analytics to Tell Where Your Website Traffic Comes From
The Google Analytics Dashboard can be scary and confusing. I am going to break down how to use Google Analytics to tell where your traffic is coming from, and how to isolate one source from another to understand whether traffic from certain sources is growing.
How to Use Google Analytics
How to … Read More 5 Ways Social Media Can Make Your Trade Show A Success
Social media is becoming a popular way for customers and businesses to interact. If you're not using social media to its full potential, you're missing out on a world of promotional possibilities.
Incorporate social media into your next trade show and you'll find that it can boost trade show … Read More Join Us for a Google Hangout With Tom Byun of Yahoo!
We invite you to join us for a live Google Hangout with Vice President of Yahoo! Small Business, Tom Byun, as we discuss:
How to run a small business with modern tools: Email marketing, directory listings, reputation management on review sites and more.
Recession hangover tips: How to … Read More How to Use Cloud Apps to Streamline Your Marketing Campaign
Running a successful marketing campaign is contingent upon several factors. This includes realistic goal setting, organization, communication, execution, and keeping track of metrics. In the past, there were limited tools and resources to aid in a marketing campaign. These tools were primitive … Read More Apple Discusses $99 Plastic iPhone in 5 to 6 Colors
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Apple products, including the iconic iPhone, may not be the first choice for many small business owners and entrepreneurs because of the price tag. But that could change if the legendary tech company were to offer a line of new iPhones at what even some in the industry consider … Read More 5 Ways to Avoid BYOD Nightmares
Ten or 15 years ago, managing your information technology was simpler in one sense. A company decided on its computing environment -– its designated operating system, devices and software –- and that’s what employees used. Period.
But then along came the BYOD trend. BYOD, which … Read MoreSponsored by
How Do Your Business’s Hiring Plans Stack Up?
Is your small business ready to hire or does it have any immediate hiring plans? If not, you’re in line with the majority of small and midsized companies in the U.S., according to the latest Sage SMB Hiring Outlook Survey from Sage North America.
According to Sage, 25 percent of SMBs overall … Read More Review of Hootsuite: Manage Social Media From A Single Dashboard
Last year we published a list of 20 Social Media Monitoring Tools. One of the more popular tools on that list is Hootsuite. Today we give you a deep dive into Hootsuite: what it is and how it can make you more productive with social media.
If you are looking for a tool that lets you manage … Read More Presentations: How to Make Your Message Stick
I'd guess that most of you that are reading this have either given PowerPoint presentations at one time or another or at least viewed one. Did you know that statistics reveals that listeners only remember 50% of what was presented just 10 minutes after a presentation is given?
The following day, … Read More Twitter Announces $1 Million in Ad Credits for Chase Small Business Customers
If you've been curious about the new Twitter advertising platform, you may have a good reason to try it out soon. But you'll have to be a small business customer using one of Chase Bank's financial products first. Twitter announced a partnership with Chase Bank last week aimed at trying to … Read More Speed Up Your Mobile Browsing with Dolphin
When you browse the Web on a cell phone, you want it to be fast. You may think that all you need is a faster connection to speed up browsing, but it could be something as simple as downloading a better Web browser built for mobile. This review of the Dolphin browser is for the increasingly-mobile … Read More Mobile Marketing Will Generate $400 Billion in Sales by 2015
If you sell directly to U.S. customers or provide marketing services to clients who do, pay attention. A recent report says a growing mobile market is already generating billions in U.S. sales. And businesses are also spending billions to market to customers via mobile channels.
The Mobile … Read More 
Apple Discusses $99 Plastic iPhone in 5 to 6…
[White iPhone 5] Apple products, including the iconic iPhone, may not be the first choice for many small business owners and entrepreneurs because of the price tag. But … Read More
Funnier Ways to Say “Sent From My…
You’ve received plenty of emails that ended with “sent from my iPhone” or another mobile email signature. Whatever your opinion of these generic signatures, they … Read More
10 Effective eLearning Options for Entrepreneurs
The constant evolution of entrepreneurship is one of the attributes that makes the career path so exciting: A fluid and flexible job description, expansive industry … Read More
Marketing With Vine: Leveraging the Power of…
If you haven't heard yet, Vine is now available on Android and is now surpassing Instagram in total Twitter shares, reports MarketingLand. Vine is an app that lets you … Read More
Sony Introduces a 13 Inch Tablet That Slides Up…
If you're looking for a large tablet that turns into a laptop, or vice versa, Sony introduces one that has it all -- for a price. The Vaio Duo 13 is a tablet with a … Read More
Management
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4 Inspirational Graphic Design Books for Web Designers
From colors and shapes to layout and navigation, design can make or break the online experience. A well-designed Web presence can attract, hold and help convert your target customers while a poor design … Read more
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Marketing & Sales
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The Identifiable Victim Effect and How It Affects Your Marketing
Ryan White was a haemophiliac who contracted HIV during a routine blood treatment. He was diagnosed as HIV positive in 1984 and died six years later in 1990. In that six years, he skyrocketed from a … Read more
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Finance
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Which Sole Proprietors Cheat on Their Taxes (According to the IRS)?
If you are non-native-English-speaking man who runs a construction or real estate rental business, hires a tax preparer rather than doing his own taxes, and thinks that making money enhances social status, … Read more
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- What Are Sunk Costs?
- The Micro Business Home Equity Loan Crunch
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Technology
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Did a “Little Bird” Talk to You About Social Selling?
Content marketing and social selling are all the rage lately. But in order to actually take those terms to heart and do them takes a lot of diligence and powerful tools. This review is for a new service, … Read more
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- Google Local Plus “101″ Primer With Local Search Expert Mike Blumenthal
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Stats & Facts
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Main Streets May Soon Be Without a Bank
Is the main street bank becoming a thing of the past? Over the last three years, banks have been steadily closing branches around the country. Many small communities are finding themselves without a … Read more
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- Stay Alive. It’s Good for Business
- Reality is Weighing on Small Business Optimism
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Resources
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Free Business Templates for Your SMB From Google
You know what’s really nice? When you need something and you instantly know where you can go to get it. You don’t have to buy it or make it yourself or reinvent the wheel – you can simply solve your … Read more
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One on One Interviews
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HubSpot’s Mike Volpe on Why You Need Context AND Content In Marketing
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R.J. Hottovy of Morningstar on Amazon Prime's Lessons in Creating Loyal …
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Mari Smith on How Small Businesses Can Use Facebook
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