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As a small business owner you may not always have the money to invest in the tools you really need. That's ok. You might actually be surprised to learn how just how many great low cost and even free tools there are to help you improve your online marketing. In this workshop, Matt McGee of Small Business Search Marketing walks attendees throug Read More

If you want your blog to become more than a hobby, you'll need to take steps to improve your blog from at least five different perspectives. Here are thoughts on how you should consider your goal, your design, your content, how you promote it, and the business aspects of your blog. Read More

A new software application for tracking carbon footprints is being developed by a start-up in the UK that uses GPS on mobile phones to figure out whether you're walking, running, driving, flying— you get the picture— and then estimating the impact this has on the environment. Read More

September 29, 2008 was quite an eye opening day and we can all admit to being anxious for what will become of the "greatest country the world." When CNN commentators are saying that we are entering a time of economic turmoil worse than that of the Great Depression, even I am starting to second guess the ways of America. It is our duty to each Read More

Guy Kingston, successful businessman and podcast presenter, identifies several ways entrepreneurs will be affected by the current panic in the big banks. Read More

Creativity does not have to cost much — it can take the place of big expenditures. In fact, creativity can be a powerful asset if you learn to use it and not hold back. Case in point: recently I attended the Small Business Marketing Unleashed Conference. As is typical at such conferences, each attendee received a bag with promotional materials Read More

Cubric ponders why some companies automatically renew services and then don't listen to what the customer is really saying about their services. Read More

How are the credit markets affecting small businesses in the United States. To try to get some statistical data to answer their questions, the author decided to take a look at peer-to-peer lending. Peer-to-peer lending gets at part of the effect of the credit markets on small businesses because some entrepreneurs borrow money from other individual Read More

A lot has been made of the recent post at Google's Webmaster Central Blog regarding duplicate content. The post, entitled Demystifying the “Duplicate Content Penalty”, basically calls into question the idea that a site can be “penalized” for having significantly similar content to another site and places the blame on webmasters and SEOs for perpe Read More

Here's an outdoor campaign that broke all the rules in all of the right ways. Read More