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Giving compliments using correct business etiquette in the workplace is a way of bringing someone up to your level. Especially if you are in senior management and you give someone a compliment, it encourages them because it makes them feel like they're worthy. We give more to people we like, we prefer to do more business with people we like, and Read More

In another video from David Skul of Relativity Business Technology Solutions, David discusses how to use Squidoo for marketing, including marketing for your small business. Squidoo is a growing automated blogging platform that allows you to target a specific niche in individual Websites called lenses. The benefit, David says, is that Squidoo allow Read More

In this video, David C. Skul of Relativity Business Technology Solutions talks about marketing, including for your small business, with Digg. The key with the bookmarking/social networking and blog-like platform, Skul says, is to spend time understanding Digg's complex and engaged community and avoiding spamming by specifically targeting your con Read More

In the past two years, webinars have exploded on the B2B scene. Webinars' popularity is being driven in part by the high cost of travel, not to mention the hassles and time involved. Why not avoid travel if you can? Let's examine this webinar trend and how you can take advantage of it in your business. Read More

Communication is vital for any business and should be sent through effective channels in order to reach the target audience. Read More

For small businesses that sell online, the importance of protecting customer data is a given. Unfortunately, the best security and privacy practices in the world are useless unless you first secure the customer's trust--no easy task in today's world. Increasing rates of identity theft and other types of online fraud have left many consumers gun Read More

From Entrepreneur.com: This downturn is a great time to develop a social-media recruiting strategy if your company doesn't have one yet. Here are some basic tips for getting started: Read More

In many ways, entrepreneurs are an optimistic lot, but small business failure is always a possibility every small business owner must be ready to face. Setbacks and pitfalls are all a part of the game and, as this entertaining and uplifting video from www.atouchofbusiness.com reminds us all, what's important is how we respond to those setbacks an Read More

A new online community may help forge business relationships using a Wiki format. Greg Cruey of BootStrapMe.com, who has been contributing to the site, posted recently on its status. "I've been contributing over the last few months to the content of a vibrant and growing site that points toward the future of the Internet and has profound potenti Read More

For this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast I had the pleasure of chatting with Chris Brogan. Chris is the President of New Marketing Labs and co-author of Trust Agents — Using the web to build, influence, improve reputation, and earn trust. Chris really is one of the super stars of the online social media world and while he would never Read More