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Naturally, this has led many individuals, sites and businesses seeking higher rankings to employee tactics that are plausibly removed from the direct exchange of capital for links, and while link brokers and link sales still thrive, they do so in an ever-increasingly paranoid & underground realm so as not to risk discovery and devaluation. In this  More...
Here is an updated tutorial on Buying Business Leads containing a list of service providers offering raw materials and additional qualification services to help marketers launch and manage their lead-generation campaigns.  More...
Lot's of people get into franchises of their own. Here are what I found to be the Top 5 reasons they do...  More...
Interesting look at key ways Gen X and Gen Y moms are different (especially in terms of buying habits and Internet usage!)  More...
Why isn’t that great content translating into more sales? Let’s look at three common copy mistakes that keep your readers from becoming customers, and how you can turn that around.  More...
B2B marketers establish conversions - or desired actions - throughout their customers’ buying process. These actions may take place online, on the phone, or live at a specific location. Regardless, many occur at the local level. Local search enables marketers to capitalize on these interactions and differentiate your firm based upon one very impor  More...
If your organization is selling into the Fortune 500 companies and the leads you generate through online and other inbound channels are not enough to fill the lead pipeline thats probably because the Fortune 500 companies have turned a bit cautious in the down economy and active buying or exploring buying options in this phase would be lower than  More...
Want to know how the stock market affects everyone, including small business owners like you? Economist Mike Donnelly says "You could have placed your 401k in a passbook savings account and done better [over the past 10.5 years]."  More...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is becoming more prevalent in our global economy. The other night, a TV commercial informed viewers that a car company is operating a manufacturing plant that has achieved zero landfill status - nothing from its manufacturing efforts goes into a landfill. Going carbon-neutral is also gaining a lot of press. Se  More...
Asked if they preferred shopping on the Internet or in brick-and-mortar stores, the largest group of responding US online buyers (38%) said they used both channels about the same amount. Slightly more respondents (31%) to PriceGrabber.com's "Back to School Survey" said they preferred making their purchases online than said they preferred bu  More...
Buying a franchise and starting business is a serious undertaking that requires careful planning to assure that one's due diligence is not compromised by emotional short cuts. The journey begins with understanding that you are investing in yourself and maybe a concept to help achieve your goals faster than you can on your own but you need a g  More...
This is a decent article that contains the pluses and minuses of using e-mail as a marketing tool. My company has definitely seen both sides and we remind you to think of e-mail "costing" as much as postal mail. Our advice: 1) Use a professional e-mail marketing service (there are several really good ones) 2) select and customize a nice templat  More...
Rush Nigut, an Iowa franchise attorney, disagrees with a popular franchise industry blogger on whether one should WORK in a franchise before buying it...  More...
To all the usual reasons that small businesses are put up for sale, add economic woes this year. But even as for-sale listings rise around the country, so is buyer interest. The problem for owners is that prices appear to be softening. Brokers say buyers are often retirees looking for a second act, or laid-off executives looking for a busi  More...
It's known as Software as a Service (SaaS), or the idea that you can get your software delivered conveniently, and at a low price, via the Web. Unlike buying software the old-fashioned way, by paying a big licensing fee up front, you pay for SaaS—also referred to as on-demand software—in pieces, spread out over time. But as with most IT innov  More...