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How many times have you found yourself distracted from your business responsibilities and goals? If it's becoming a real problem, you'll need to take drastic action to keep your mind — and your business — focused on what matters. Going all in doesn't mean taking an unbalanced approach. Read More

Going all in requires that you have a clear idea of where you want to end up. You can't hesitate and go all in at the same time. The two concepts are opposed, completely incompatible. If you try to go all in and aren't clear it's not going to work. And then you'll be even more discouraged and more hesitant to go all in next time. Read More

Earlier this week I gave a presentation on the intersection of SEO, online PR and social media to a great mix of people (mostly agencies) at a SEMPO Arizona event. The SEO/PR/Social topic is an interesting mix due to the convergence that's been happening over the past 2-3 years and of course, because it's the essence of what we've been doing at To Read More

How can I optimize for "deep web" crawling? Read More

I'm often talking about producing high quality, education based content as way to draw leads to know, like and trust you. So, for example, I always advise small business owners to create and populate a blog because I happen to think it's one of the easiest and most effective ways to both create and optimize content. Read More

Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft announced a joint effort to help reduce duplicate content. The three major search engines came together to allow users to point out their preferred version of a url. Read More

In this brief clip from a presentation at Stanford University, Guy Kawasaki, author of The Art of the Start, gives three good reasons to start a business. (Believe it or not, making money is not one of them!) Read More

Want to know more about how to start a small business Website? This video from NetworkSolutions.com gives you a starting point. Read More

Celebrating America's coolest college startups (Part 2) follows up our initial link to the Inc.com package on college entrepreneurs with a link to the list of the top profiles. Hope you too find inspiration from the accomplishments of these young people. Read More

The director of a tax services firm with ties to Republican U.S. Senate leaders takes aim at the lack of small business tax relief he says is contained in the Obama administration's stimulus package in this article at Forbes.com. It's a useful counterpoint to the administration's claims but the writer's agenda must be kept in mind. Read More