Worried about how your business can survive economic hard times? Try these 10 great ways you can take care of your customers, your employees and your business to survive and thrive in a down economy.  More...
It is very clear the world is traversing a brutal economic downfall which has led to some of the biggest bank failures in history. Global corporations are slashing spending significantly across all departments and releasing personnel in response to the deteriorating economic conditions.Presumably, when we hear the word recession, we immediately th  More...
Serial entrepreneur, Peter J. Burns, III, the founder of Club Entrepreneur and the nation's first College of Entrepreneurship just launched the eFactory, a state-of-the-art entrepreneurial resource center housing dozens of start-up busineses. The prototype and Club E headquarters recently launched in Phoenix and in a recently signed agreement with  More...
Microblogging is hot with the shiny new object set and as the practice of Twittering extends beyond early adopters and gets more mainstream media coverage, the crowd will get hungrier for more functionality. I don’t know about you, but I’m hungry for more Twitter functionality now. Check me out onTwitter here.  More...
What are small businesses doing to cope with the economic situation? Here are a couple of peeks from Utah and California.  More...
Cause-related marketing can increase sales as much as 74% in certain consumer-goods categories, and consumers spend twice as long looking at cause-related ads than generic corporate ones, according to a study by Cone and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. After participants were exposed to either a cause-related or a generic corporate  More...
Professional copywriters know that All successful sales letters start the same way: with a compelling headline! In fact, the headline is the most important element of your salesletter because it’s key to grabbing your readers’ attention — and keeping it! And you only have a matter of seconds to do this. If you don’t instantly excite, inspire and  More...
We all know the “rules” of blogging. Produce consistently high-quality content, position yourself as an authority, cultivate relationships with your readers and other bloggers. But some of the best and most popular blogs have traits that might surprise you. Here’s how being negative, angry and stupid (in the right ways) can create breakthrough su  More...
Rich media advertising may draw the eye, but it doesn't necessarily draw clicks, according to recently released results from an iPerceptions study. iPerceptions' latest survey into which ads are being clicked on, and by whom, appears to suggest that good old-fashioned text ads are the most likely to be clicked. The research firm found th  More...
Nearly three-quarters of American employees think their companies should help extremely poor people around the world if they have the resources, according to a survey conducted by Harris Interactive for Millennium Promise and CareerBuilder.com. About half of workers cited social responsibility as the top reason their companies should help thos  More...
The next time you design a web site, its okay to take it for a joy-ride. You’ve earned that right. But, make sure you throw the keys to other drivers and let them take it on the highway or down the street to Starbucks. These people are your user testing hero’s.  More...
Lately I’ve noticed more and more affiliate marketers getting onto twitter. There’s been a real buzz about it actually in many internet marketing circles - almost like it’s the latest ‘new’ thing (I guess it is relatively new). The unfortunate thing is that the model I’m seeing some internet marketers use on Twitter is quite spammy. Some have spa  More...
One way to think about designing a B2B technology web marketing plan is as a series of layers, like an onion. At the core is SEO—simply making your website "findable" through organic search to buyers who are looking for what you offer. Working out from the center are concentric layers of additional investment and sophistication.  More...
Not every big company is dumb. There are actually a decent number of big smart companies that do things we can learn from. But big, well-capitalized companies have a mortal enemy: inertia. It’s very hard to change the direction they’re already headed. It’s very hard to fix the cultural mistakes that have been ingrained in the company since its ear  More...
Most companies are struggling with how to adapt to serve a new wave of consumers from the Millennial Generation (or Gen Y) - those born between 1982 and 2001 - according to a global survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit and Alcatel-Lucent company Genesys. The survey asked C-level and other senior executives from around the world how they a  More...


I was podcasted on Small Business Trends Radio

Alltop, all the top stories