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Visualizing your business plan can provide additional focus. Knowing the direction you are looking to move forward can strengthen operations leading to growth, even in this economic downturn.
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The Internet is not just changing the way people live but altering the way our brains work with a neuroscientist arguing this is an evolutionary change which will put the tech-savvy at the top of the new social order.
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Here you can see that about 80% of the qualified leads were completed within 1.5 hours - in one or more conversations with the decision maker.
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In a standard custom logo assignment, the average graphic designer develops six concepts for evaluation by the business owner client. Only one of those will be used, leaving five creative logos to be stored away—and probably never seen again. Enter IncSpring, a beta site that aims to help designers with ideas and business owners seeking same find
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Good review of why the size of your small business matters in federal procurement
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Do you ever wish finding the perfect job could be as easy as one, two, three? According to new research, it might be as easy as red, yellow or blue.
That's right; by determining which primary, secondary and achromatic colors you prefer most and least, you can figure out a successful career path based on how you approach work, the types of work
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Jeff Bezos recently highlighted, Animoto, a great self-service video creation site.
As a former TV commercial director and still photographer I can relate to what Jeff is saying -- in the old days it took dozens of hours in an expensive post-production studio to create even the simplest video from collections of stills. Animoto can do it in a
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You know about backing up files at work, but when you get home it is easy to overlook the home computer, which in so many cases has insinuated itself into household routines. You come home, you check your email. You need to write a quick thank you to a friend, you run to the computer to pull up her address. You want to keep up with your nieces and
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Do you know of someone who is always being told to “get organized” so that he or she will show up on time, manage to find things, and get more done? Stress affects many people as they strive to cope with multiple daily tasks and events. However lack of time is not the only factor in struggling with time management skills...
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Incorporating mis-spelled words into your keyword optimization is a smart and free online marketing tactic - especially in a slump marketing strategy.
How much do you worry about misspellings when you are searching on Google?
My guess is "Not much." -- and you aren't alone -- especially since Google added the "Did you mean:" red questi
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Are your customers talking about you on Yelp.com? The has launched a set of tools that enable firms to nurture relationships on the popular review site — whose sip-and-tell clientele have likely burned as many small businesses as they have helped.
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Many people aren't purely mercenary in their business dealings. They care about fairness -- and they should because doing so can maximize their profits. When people are fair minded, they don't need to waste time on elaborate negotiations or enter into complicated contracts to coordinate their marketing channel and maximize profitability, accordi
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A great post by Dan Schwabel of Personal Branding, sharing his presentation on personal branding to college students.
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Marketers often entice customers to buy a product by offering a free gift with the purchase. They might, for example, offer a free half gallon of milk with the purchase of Oreos or a pair of tickets to Disneyland with the purchase of an airline ticket. Research at the University of California, Berkeley, however, suggests this approach may not be s
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All CMOs engage in a time-driven bargain: exchanging their time -- the time they've invested in market research, marketing plans, strategy development and advertising -- in return for a few minutes, hours or days of their consumers' time. But how can you know whether consumers are willing to trade their time for yours? To take the time to listen
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