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America's retail footprint is shrinking. And not just because the industry will lose about 40,000 more stores than it gains this year, when the recession causes retail sales to drop at least 1%. The trend toward smaller stores is picking up steam. Initiated by the popularity of mini-marts, aimed at consumer convenience, the move away from larg Read More

President Obama is seeking to establish automatic retirement accounts for all workers under his fiscal-2010 budget proposal submitted to Congress yesterday. Under the plan, all employers that didn't offer retirement plans would be forced to enroll employees in direct-deposit individual retirement accounts unless workers chose not to participate Read More

Posts about personal branding, creating buzz, and video from branding futurist Martin Lindstrom. Read More

About 7.5 percent of U.S. adults lost money as a result of financial fraud last year, mostly due to data breaches, according to a new Gartner study to be released on Tuesday night. In the survey of nearly 5,000 consumers, 70 percent said they had never been a victim of identity theft fraud. Read More

Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan, authors of The Three Laws of Performance, discuss the two recessions: the actual external one, and the one in your mind. Managing the second may just be the key to managing the first, too. Read More

A great look at things done wrong and right at a very delicate time. Read More

Jerry Kalish of Slate's BizBox explains two provisions in the new stimulus package that affect employee benefits. One buttresses COBRA, which provides health insurance to recently terminated workers; the other extends transportation benefits, which can help employers and employees alike. Read More

Five new marketing (yes, marketing) skills: 1. analytical pattern recognition, 2. agile project management, 3. experimental curiosity and rigor, 4. systems thinking, 5. mashable software fluency. Read More

There is one form of advertising that has always worked, and will continue to work, and has nearly a guaranteed positive ROI. It's the most trusted form of advertising out there, has no shelf life, and will always be well received by your market — so what is it? Word Of Mouth! Read More

8 Powerful, high-impact, and highly effective Techniques to keep in mind when running your own Email Marketing campaign. Read More