1. Email Marketing Success Is About Relevance

Though it may sit in the shadows of today's shiner marketing techniques, email marketing continues to be an effective, low-cost way for SMB owners to reach out to, inform and retain current customers. In fact, according to new numbers from Forrester ...

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2. Google Offers Free Business Dashboard for SMBs

If you've been holding out for just one more reason to list your small business in Google's Local Business Center, you've got it. Google is now offering a full dashboard of information to small businesses who are proactive enough to verify their com...

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3. Managing for Growth Webinar Recap: Budgets are Increasing

Are you having to do more with less? That’s the boat most of us are in. If you need answers to how to do more with less, then you’ll want to listen to the "Managing For Growth And Change In A Tough Economy" webinar that Anita Campbell mod...

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4. Small Business Thrives by Investing in Green Technology

Green technology is an excellent investment to make right now and you don't have to be an industry leader to explore green territories. Small businesses can do it too - and many of them actually are. Craig Bramscher, CEO of Brammo, joins host...

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5. New Help Available to Small Businesses Looking For Loans

Small business owners struggling to make ends meet may be interested in two new programs aimed at offering financial assistance to entrepreneurs in hard times. And they come from two organizations you're probably already familiar with and trust. The...

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6. A Quick Refresher of CAN-SPAM Rules for Email Marketing and Newsletters

If you cast your mind back to 2003, possibly you’ll remember that one of the grand issues of the day was unsolicited commercial email, otherwise known as spam. That was a long time ago, back when John McCain was still a maverick and nobody had...

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7. Are You Ready to be Forced to Provide Health Insurance?

If you run a small business and employ people, under one of the proposals floating around for healthcare reform you’d be required to provide health insurance for employees. Now, most people would agree that all individuals have a right to heal...

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8. The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life

If there is anything that small business owners can agree on, it’s that leadership isn’t what it used to be. Whenever I get together with any group of business people, it seems that the consensus is that we seem to be running a little sh...

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9. The Business of Intellectual Property

This is actually thanks to my wife. She got a daily book recommendation calendar for Christmas and every so often comes across one she thinks I might like. Max Brooks’ “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War” was one such...

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10. Best Kept Marketing Secrets: Editor Picks

Did you ever notice … it seems that everyone is always more interested in the things they are NOT supposed to know, things such as secrets?  It’s true — people love secrets and are attracted to knowledge of “insider informatio...

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