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Both Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain have advanced a broad array of tax proposals that are complex, hard to understand, and on many points, difficult to compare. But the Tax Policy Center of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, two nonpartisan research organizations, recently published a study that provides the best  More...
This pioneering Babson study examines whether writing a business plan before launching a new venture affects the company's subsequent performance. Interestingly, the analysis revealed that there was no difference between the performance of new businesses launched with or without written business plans. Unless a would-be entrepreneur needs to rais  More...
A new study and analysis reveals a range of benefits by making some format adjustments to Customer Magazines. Though currently the average number of pages for a customer magazine is 36 and the most popular frequency is quarterly, says the study, more pages inspires more thorough readership and greater frequency yields an uplift of over 10%.  More...
Everybody is a customer. That includes you. No matter how much or how little shopping you do, you must be doing some, and giving somebody your business. Try this: Every time you deal with a business, whether it be doing some grocery shopping at the Super Wal-Mart, ordering a necklace online, or simply depositing some money into your checking a  More...
Comprehensive guide to website usability, SEO, design with links to other resources. Great reference tool. Simple and easy to understand and use.  More...
A comprehensive listing of sites with publicly available data to be used for programming or even marketing research and analysis.  More...
Coming from an agency, there are often times when there is need to perform a competitive analysis for a client in order to better understand the client's position in the competitive landscape. The main purpose of a competitive analysis should be to gain awareness of the competitive factors analyzed and to leverage the client's strengths, weaknes  More...
This is a neat little tool I found that analyzes your clients using the 80/20 principle. The way it works is that you put in your clients, answer some questions about them and then it lines up the data into tables, showing you where the results are coming from so you can compare and contrast them. The more clients you add, the better it works.  More...
80% (84%, actually) of the time spent on blogs comes from 20% of the audience, a comScore study finds; this presents an opportunity to develop a unique audience for your blog.  More...
Nearly 1 in 10 consumers surveyed (9%) say they are influenced or greatly influenced by sponsored links when searching for products or services on the internet, according to an analysis of BIGresearch’s Simultaneous Media Survey (SIMM 11).

Advertisers are allocating more dollars to sponsored links, and understanding who is influenced by them h  More...
This brief completes the review of Landing Pages submitted by online businesses for live optimization analysis. Here's bizSugar link to part one: http://www.bizsugar.com/OnlineMarketing/Optimizing_Your_Landing_Pages_-_Part_One/ The reviews identified areas where applying key concepts of Landing Page Optimization to both B2B and B2C product,  More...
Here's a quick practical guide to exploring your competitor’s link building techniques. This research should be both helpful for your overall competitive research and for defining your own first-stage SEO techniques.  More...
How do you know what to change, what to keep, and what really works when it comes to optimizing a Landing Page?  More...
Web 2.0 efficiencies disrupt old business models by reducing manufacturing and investment costs and decentralizing information. It's time for the permeable corporation, where success depends upon cooperation and interaction.  More...