Is Blogging Right for your Business?

When we hear some *new and improved* marketing technique, we all want to jump on the bandwagon. Technorati.com estimates that there is a blog created every second, and ProBlogger.com estimates that many of those blogs die within three months. Why do those blogs die? Maybe the owner didn’t have sufficient ...

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Free SkypeOut!

Today, Henry Gomez General Manager of [tag]Skype[/tag] North America announced that until the end of the year, all [tag]Skype Out[/tag] calls to landlines and cell phones in the US and Canada are free! Skype is one of the easiest to use [tag]internet telephony[/tag] - it works much like an instant messaging ...

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Proposal Writing

Many of my clients have to create [tag]proposals[/tag] - or they want to. Unfortunately, many of us have little experience with propsal creating, which leads to 9-10-15 hour days in front of the computer trying to smash out the latest proposal. Laura Ricci of Laura's winning ideas has been featured ...

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Internet Neutrality

[tag]Congress[/tag] is pushing through a law that would permit large telephone and cable companies, like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast, to control what you do, where you go and what you watch online. Visit the URL below to check out what's at stake and send a message directly to the Congress: http://action.freepress.net/campaign/savethenet Are ...

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Holiday Auto-Recovery

Why do holidays always put me behind on my [tag]blogging[/tag]? I should learn, with wordpress's ability to schedule posting to blog ahead of time... Anyway, catching up, there are a few very interesting things in the blogosphere: 1. Everytime Mark Silver writes something, I hear his voice. I don't know why... but ...

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My problem with most e-commerce sites

They fail us miserably. I was looking today for some airsoft guns (paintball guns), and came across Zephyr Paintball, which has some pretty decent deals. My problem, why it fails miserably, is in conversion and consumption. Zephyr tells me nothing of what I would want an airsoft gun for - or ...

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Small Business Owners: Are you buried in administration?

Is this you: You've figured out what your next income stream is going to be - the only barrier is finding the time to create? You spend too much time on things like updating your website, formatting your newsletter, scheduling appointments, and other things - when you would rather be finding new ...

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Seth Godin “All Marketers are Liars”

If you haven't had a chance to watch this, check out this 48-minute [tag]All Marketers are Liars[/tag] presentation by [tag]Seth Godin[/tag]. Link (Thanks, Jeremiah!)

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Non-traditional Selling on Craigslist

Suzanne Falter-Barnes wrote a great post on using [tag]Craigslist.org[/tag] to sell your event, and it's inspiring. Oftentimes, you'll find [tag]B2B advertising[/tag] of events on online forums such as Ryze and through Yahoo Groups, but it's not so often that you see (worthwhile) B2C counterparts in [tag]social networking[/tag] groups. Basically, Craig's List ...

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Entrepreneurial Proverbs

Great article from the O'Reilly Radar on Entrepreneurial Proverbs, My favorite: Cool ideas are useless without great needs -- this is the classic engineers' entrepreneurial mistake (or at least I'd like to think so, since I've made it). Techies love tech, and a new technology can produce a lot of companies ...

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