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Today, on January 20th, 2009, the US will inaugurate a new President. The positive symbolism of today is so thick you can cut it with a knife. That being said, I want to remind everyone to stay grounded in reality when it comes to your own success. Read More

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The Small Business Administration (SBA) will get a beefier post in the Obama regime. Under President Bush, the agency saw its funding fall, was plagued by a host of controversies and lost the prestigious Cabinet level status conferred on it by President Clinton. But Barack Obama is signaling greater respect for the agency. Read More

As an online business, it is important not to look past your local audience. As a brick and mortar business, your local audience might even be your entire audience. Your presence in Google Maps is important. You (should) know that by now. Keeping this in mind, Google has introduced some improvements to its AdWords local business ads for Google Read More

This article really describes a problem hundreds of businesses deal with daily. Who has time to manage employees playing the blame game? What a better way to deal with constant "cover your a**." Great Article for any business manager or CEO. Read More

You can't force someone to buy something when they don't need it and yet, just because he/she doesnt need it now, it doesn't mean they may not buy from you when they do need it. Knowing who your prospects are is the easy bit. Knowing when they are ready teady to buy from you and when they are ready to be pitched to is where lead nurturing plays Read More

Seth Godin talks about using a different pricing strategy in your marketing plan. Read More

As the president-elect and members of Congress consider what type of tax provisions should be included in the stimulus package, NFIB is diligently working to convince lawmakers that the best way to help small business owners and employees is to pass a six-month payroll tax holiday. Read More

According to Mark Sellers, an opportunity isn't really an opportunity (and doesn't deserve significant resources) until the customer has committed budget dollars to the project. He says that until this takes place, it's crazy to write proposals, make multiple business trips, or put the revenue from that “opportunity” into your forecast. Ins Read More

Like any other person out there, I fall into habits, good and bad. Recently while working on a client's website, I created a Sitemap and submitted it to the search engines, like I always do. I started to think if this really helps the site out and what's the effect when I submit a Sitemap on the site. Read More