Search engine marketing can be a great equalizer for small businesses, helping us compete online for traffic and customers. It takes a combination of technical savvy and marketing skill. If you take some time to educate yourself and your staff of your business does the same, it can reap big…
Last week I started a new role, as Executive Editor of Creative Weblogging. In this new role I will be responsible for finding new talented bloggers and further building the company’s network of successful sites. I will continue with my other business activities, but felt this was a great…
Please join us April 25, 2006 for the Small Business Trends Radio show when we will be explaining Voice over IP (VoIP) phone systems in plain English.
Maybe you’ve seen this acronym: VoIP. Ever wonder exactly what it means? And whether a VoIP system is right for your small business?
My…
Those of you who frequent the small business and entrepreneurship blogs may know Yaro Starak of the Small Business Branding blog — an excellent site featuring original content.
Yaro did a podcast interview with me last week.
I really enjoyed talking with Yaro because he is a creative and…
Thanks to all of you who weighed in with helpful advice about how to fight plagiarism of my site, as per my last post. See the comments there for all of the advice, including useful links.
The copycat site has apparently been taken down — at least for now. I simply will have to monitor it…
I need some advice.
Now and then I’ve read how other sites have been plagiarized. Mostly I never concerned myself about this issue because it did not affect my business.
In the past I’ve been very happy when sites use my content — provided they link back here and it is clear…
Carnival of the Capitalists is now posted at the Free Money Finance blog.
You’ll find a lot of interesting reading.
One article that is an absolute must read is “A Customer Satisfaction Study in the Blogosphere.” It’s a study in why being negative — even…
Editor’s Note: The following is the weekly feature, Today’s Trend, from the Small Business Trends Radio program of April 11, 2006.
Anyone who became an entrepreneur before or during the DotCom boom days of the late 1990s and early 2000s, soon became aware of all the easy money.
Or so…
Side businesses are getting a lot of interest by people today in the U.S. Partly it seems to be due to the cachet that owning your own business has. Everyone from Martha Stewart to Donald Trump wants to be called an entrepreneur.
Being American, we want it all, of course. So even if we have…
President George W. Bush has proclaimed April 9 – 15, 2006 “Small Business Week” in the United States. In his proclamation he noted:
The entrepreneurial spirit of America is robust and strong, and small businesses are thriving throughout our great Nation. The opportunity to own a…
The Franchise King
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