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Jodi Smith wasn't always so outgoing. In fact, she was so shy in high school that she knew "maybe three people out of a class of more than 1,000" when she graduated. Heading to college, however, Smith made the conscious decision to reinvent herself, "just to see what would happen." Well, her experiment seems to have worked. After a decade  More...
According to a new report by the Online Publishers Association, local media sites hold a distinct advantage when it comes to delivering results for advertisers. The study finds that consumers trust advertising on local newspaper, magazine and television Websites, and are very likely to take action after viewing ads on these sites. Newspapers ra  More...
37Signals shows how to build employee engagement from the very first day: Welcome them with open arms, celebrate their arrival.  More...
While online mapping services and GPS devices are great for helping people get to where they're going - it's more important to those of us in Sales to know where we need to go in the first place! And while we're at it -it would be nice to know if we're contacting the best opportunity in the area - and shoot - since we're already there - is th  More...
Finding the latest trends in the media can clue you in on ways to make your business newsworthy. Becoming newsworthy is an entrepreneur's first step towards growing their business through publicity and public relations.  More...
I stumbled upon this site for the first time last week and came back to it again today out of curiosity. It so happens something slightly changed- luckily, it still works to prove my point. Last week, the Natural Confectionery Company was offering a bag of free sweets!:-) which at the end engaged the viewer into putting in their contact details  More...
Actually, says the multi-millionaire founder of Maxim and other lad mags, you probably shouldn’t even try. His book, How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets, newly published in America, mostly skips the braggadocio and platitudes typical of self-made-millionaire memoirs.  More...
Millions of businesses and other public facilities would be affected by proposed regulatory changes under the Americans With Disabilities Act, the milestone 1990 civil rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability. The proposed regulations address a wide range of facilities, including access to courthouses, drinking fount  More...
If you regularly sell items on online auction sites, you may find yourself on the Internal Revenue Service's radar. Recent legislation aims to help the IRS collect more taxes from online enterprises, many of which either don't know about their tax obligations or are ignoring them, according to the agency. The provision, part of the housing re  More...
The French jewelry maker, Cartier, launched its very own profile on MySpace as an attempt to appeal to a new crowd, the computer savvies. They are one of the first luxury brands to seek help from a social networking site to spread the word or L.O.V.E.  More...
The $33 million venture capital was up and running early this week, hence it is still in its launching process and receiving its first search requests. Just to give you some background information, the search engine was designed by Anna Patterson and a couple other engineers, all ex-Googlers...  More...
New research by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that nearly six in ten businesses shut down within the first four years of operation. To avoid becoming a statistic yourself, here are the top reasons so many new ventures fail.  More...
New data from SearchIgnite finds that the Google/Yahoo sponsored search deal will increase Yahoo search rates by about 22 percent. Yahoo has higher keyword ad rates than Google for certain terms, including the first three results on searches for premium terms like "insurance." It also outdoes Google in the #1 result for keywords containing a  More...
Barack Obama unveiled a tax credit to encourage small firms to buy health insurance for employees. The proposal, elaborated in a conference call with reporters by the campaign's Economic Policy Adviser, Jason Furman, would provide small firms with a 50% tax credit against the cost of employee premiums. To receive it, a company would have to  More...
The National Federation of Independent Business monthly Index of Small Business Optimism was basically unchanged in June, falling 0.1 points to a recession-level reading of 89.2. "The top concern of small business owners today is inflation – the first time since January 1981," said NFIB Chief Economist William Dunkelberg.  More...