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Due to this financial crisis people will investigate in alternative solutions that are cheaper, bring value for money, bring the minimum service, or use a different new technology or approach as a solution to solve the same problem. Thus for a number of vendors new opportunities will arise that have been developed based upon new or alternative te  More...
Billions of federal bailout dollars are flooding the financial system, credit markets are loosening and many banks say they are ready to lend. But a crucial piece needed to solve the credit crisis is still missing: borrowers. With the economy slowing, banks are seeing a big decline in the number of people seeking loans because nervous consumers  More...
StartUp New Orleans, a peer-to-peer initiative designed to attract startups and entrepreneurs to New Orleans, has reached its goal of attracting five startups by the end of the year. Just six months old, StartUp reached its goal two months ahead of schedule. With five companies committed and many more interested, the effort has been successful i  More...
The financial crisis will have a detrimental impact on our marketing and sales budgets in 2009. In this crisis, marketing leaders need to re-invent marketing not just as a functional discipline, but as the business fiber that connects prospects to companies like never before.  More...
Small businesses have been having increasing trouble getting loans as the credit markets have seized up. But some, such as Tio's Mexican, are finding that smaller community banks and credit unions are more open to offering financing. For one thing, many smaller lenders are in relatively strong financial shape because they didn't make the types o  More...
When any company is looking out for B2B lead sources and especially for a database of companies and key executive contacts, Dun & Bradstreet’s Hoovers Online company database is on everyone’s evaluation list. Having been around for several years and with a comprehensive database of over 23 million companies, its rightly amongst the most widely kno  More...
In the absence of giving your employees information about the company's condition, their imaginations will kick in -- guaranteed. So nip rumors in the bud and talk with your employees -- here are 5 tips for how to do that.  More...
Bank loans have been harder to come by, but that doesn't mean companies' need for funding has dried up. To get cash, small and medium-size businesses have increasingly turned to firms that get them money they are owed more quickly. The firms, known as factoring companies, say they are seeing an uptick in the quantity and caliber of businesse  More...
Your business is a data-driven machine. You live and die by leads and sales. You don't have time for unmeasurable, time-consuming concepts like community and conversation. Fine. Forget community. Forget conversation. There's a far simpler, far more measurable reason to blog: search engine rankings.  More...
Watch out for a new brand of consumer in 2008: the middle-aged Simplifier. She finds herself surrounded by too much stuff acquired. She is increasingly skeptical in the face of a financial meltdown that it was all worth the effort. Out will go luxury purchases, conspicuous consumption, and a trophy culture. Tomorrow's consumer will buy more ephem  More...
Are you wilting in a market meltdown? If you’re a real estate agent, there is a good chance that a daisy chain of financial disaster–collapsing housing bubble, wave of sub prime defaults, frozen corporate credit markets–has become your worst nightmare.  More...
As the financial world imploded last week (my 401k is now a 200.5k), I sat in Florida at my company's client summit listening to industry experts and national advertisers trading best practices and tactics for prospering in an increasingly complex local media world.  More...
When times are good, anybody can sell. It’s at times like this that you find out if you’re really a sales professional… or just an order taker. Here’s the good news. Chances are your competitor — the sales guy down the street — is obsessing about the economy when he should be out selling. So that means that you’ve just been handed an incre  More...
Drums are currently rolling for Google as everyone sits and waits with uncertainty for their third quarter financial results to be revealed tomorrow. No one knows which way Google’s stocks will be headed although we have witnessed a stock drop of 45%.  More...
The news of the fall of Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers & Merrill Lynch was a shock to everyone. Then there was the news flash that AIG was next in line for collapse. It’s almost impossible to imagine that these are some of the massive giants from Fortune 500 that are amongst the biggest buyers for just about everything b2b businesses have to offer.  More...