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Twenty-six-year-old David Karp is the ultimate rags to riches success story. With today's announcement that Yahoo will buy Tumblr, a social blogging platform he launched in his mom's apartment at at 21, Karp is now a mega-millionaire. Think your small startup can't make it big? Read this story and Read More

According to research firm IDC, Microsoft is now the 5th largest tablet seller, based on shipments of its Surface Pro tablet designed for business users. Microsoft still only has 1.8% market share but that's better than a year ago when it had zero market share.

And an upbeat ad campaign that fe Read More

A recent study suggests small businesses are beginning to see more return on investment in social media. At the same time, the study says businesses still struggle with maintaining presence on the largest social media site of all, Facebook. Fortunately, there are many tools and techniques to improv Read More

The findings of the recent Manta report suggest that small businesses are seeing benefits, because they keep devoting the resources to social media. Read more about the details of the report and what it means to small businesses... Read More

Yesterday, on February 14, 2013, Marketplace Fairness Act -- which may prescribe for all online retailers (regardless of the state) to collect an online sales tax -- has been introduced to Congress. However, it sounds on the surface, this law may, actually, save close to 80,000 small businesses. Read More

While many affiliate program managers and advertisers still frown when seeing affiliates who use social as their only method of marketing (and justly so!), there are a few ways you can increase the likelihood of being approved into affiliate programs. Read More

Have you ever wondered how a super affiliate thinks? Mike Allen is one; and in this interview is a must-read if you want to take a peek in side the mind of a successful affiliate. Read More

How do the two compare?

While there are some similarities, there are also quite a number of differences, and I was pleased to come across an infographic which reflected these. Read More

"Affiliate managers are still under-emphasizing conversion optimization. A recent study of online retailers revealed that, for every $92 spent driving traffic, still only $1 spent on conversion. With under-investment like this, there’s no wonder why affiliate websites and landing pages are still un Read More

If you let your users’ natural actions help you craft the design and content that gets the best results, you won’t be guessing (or arguing) about what to do any more because the facts from an objective test like this will drown out everyone else, including the boss man (as long as it’s his idea). Read More