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Eight years after the recession, as many as 93 percent of U.S. counties are still feeling the effects. Only 1 in 5 small businesses have completely recovered. To meet your goals in 2016 and the expectations of a bullish small business market, here are some helpful tips. Read More

Your website is your virtual place of business. Just like your regular place of business, you want it to be neat, clean, attractive, inviting and professional looking. Here are 7 low cost ways to improve a homepage to meet today's standards. Read More

Jim Fowler of Owler discusses how changing technology has impacted crowd sourcing business models over the years, and how these models will only succeed if humans and the way they communicate are not automated out of the equation, but freed up to think and share more efficiently, improving their ab Read More

The U.S. Postal Service has revised prices for its Shipping Services. The rate changes come into effect on Jan. 17, 2016 and will be the first price increase in more than three years for commercial Priority Mail. Read More

Twitter played a big role in making hashtag usage so widespread, and now the company is introducing an exclusive new ad format that utilizes the hashtag even further. Read More

For the past year, the tastes of Americans have been changing. Trends in everything from food preferences to religious practice are in flux. Some of the most interesting changes are reflected in a recent infographic from Foursquare. Read More

Ryan Bell will be speaking at CES in January about the live streaming movement. Cited numerous times by other interviewees in this column, he was a natural to contact for an interview on mobile live streaming’s breakthrough year. Read More

It’s no surprise that customers are doing more of their shopping on mobile devices. After all, the move toward mobile has been increasing for a few years now. What may be a bit of a surprise is where customers are starting their purchase journeys. One of the places they start is … YouTube. Read More

Twitter Promoted Trends allows you to purchase an ad unit that will appear within users’ timelines for a specific period of time on Twitter, as well as on its platforms for Android and iPhone and on TweetDeck (which allows users to access several accounts at once). Read More

eBooks have opened up a whole new world of publishing possibilities for independent authors. Gone are the days where you need to have an agent and a connection to a major publishing company. Now, there are plenty of online platforms that can help you release your eBooks to the world without a huge Read More