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Marketing Success Stories and Tips from Real Small Businesses, Courtesy of Yellowbook 360
As small business owners we are always looking for ways to maximize our business efforts. But I have discovered, like most of us, that the best investment is in the small business owner herself/himself. In that vein, learning from others is priceless.
Yellowbook, a 360-degree marketing company, has…
5 Tips for Working With Outsourced Designers
Your small business relies on a professional and consistent look and feel. But how do you achieve this when you don’t have the resources to have an in-house marketing design team? Print design, Web design and advertising copy – all of this can be quite complicated. Outsourced designers are a…
Where Self-Employment Should be Strong over the Coming Eight Years
People often ask me to predict the sectors of the economy where we should see a big expansion in entrepreneurial activity over the next few years. Those predictions are difficult to make because “entrepreneurial activity” has a variety of meetings, and because we don’t have a great deal of…
Commerce, SBA Launch New Online Tool for Small Business Exporting
Washington (PRESS RELEASE – November 22, 2010) – Small businesses interested in exporting now have a new online tool to help them tap into the global marketplace to grow their business. Developed by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Small Business Administration, Six Steps to…
Verizon Business and Microsoft Partner to Heighten Cloud-Based Collaboration
Basking Ridge, New Jersey (PRESS RELEASE – November 21, 2010) – Small and medium-sized businesses increasingly want to tap the same kinds of advanced collaboration tools as large enterprises, but often are restrained by limited IT budgets, fewer personnel and less technical savvy. To…
Carrots and Sticks Don’t Work: Making Employee Engagement Easy
What do Aretha Franklin and your employees have in common? They both need a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T to get the job done.
Come to think of it, handing out a little respect to employees, customers, suppliers, spouses and friends just seems like something that we all should have learned in…
PwC Announces New US Family Businesses Survey Results
New York (PRESS RELEASE – November 21, 2010) – PwC US’s latest Family Business Survey finds that US family businesses are poised for post-crisis growth, despite ongoing concern about market conditions. Notably, more US family businesses (88%) are concerned about market conditions than…
Vemma Brand Partner Wins Stevie Award for Women in Business
Scottsdale, Arizona (PRESS RELEASE – November 20, 2010) – Vemma Brand Partner, Ruth Elliott, was honored as a Stevie Award winner for Best Entrepreneur – Service Businesses – Up to 100 Employees at the Stevie Awards for Women in Business gala event at the New York Marriott…
Guide to Events for Small Businesses
This list of small business events, webinars and conferences is brought to you every two weeks as a community service by Small Business Trends and Smallbiztechnology.com.
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The Science of Social Media Marketing 2010
November 23, 2010 at 2:00pm EST, Webinar
Join Dan Zarrella, Social Media…
Tipping the Odds for the Entrepreneur
Wouldn’t it be great to have an entrepreneur’s handbook? In it, you would find all kinds of sage advice and guidance about what it takes to run a successful business. If something like this is on your wish list, then you need to pick up Tipping the Odds for the Entrepreneur: Big Ideas…
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