Forum: Small Business Brief Archives
10th June 2010, 02:00 PM
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Short Term Thinking Can Harm Your Business
The problem with project thinking is it leads you into the trap of continually needing new customers to have a healthy business. It can also mean that you get swamped with work for a time and then...
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Forum: Small Business Brief Archives
3rd June 2010, 05:10 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 5,570
Merchants Push Sales Through Social Media
After learning how to market themselves through tweets and status updates, some small companies are taking the next step: selling directly to consumers via social-networking sites. Merchants on...
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Forum: Small Business Brief Archives
3rd June 2010, 05:10 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 2,218
How to Make a Great How-To Video
If a picture speaks a thousand words, then a video certainly adds a good few more on top of that. One area in which video is invaluable is the “how-to” instructional that takes a diagram, recipe, or...
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Forum: Small Business Brief Archives
3rd June 2010, 05:10 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 6,880
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Forum: Small Business Brief Archives
2nd June 2010, 06:50 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 2,504
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Forum: Small Business Brief Archives
2nd June 2010, 05:51 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,777
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Forum: Small Business Brief Archives
2nd June 2010, 05:51 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,854
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Forum: Small Business Brief Archives
2nd June 2010, 03:50 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 2,213
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Forum: Small Business Brief Archives
29th May 2010, 11:30 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 2,269
Do You Know Your Time-is-Money Rate?
I think this time-is-money analysis is important because sometimes we get too cheap with business expenses. I can give you lots of examples including: Are you spending extra hours on cheap rental...
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Forum: Small Business Brief Archives
28th May 2010, 07:51 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,831
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Forum: Small Business Brief Archives
28th May 2010, 11:41 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 2,008
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Forum: Small Business Brief Archives
28th May 2010, 11:41 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 2,875
8 Must Haves For Your Twitter Contest
Spend ten minutes on Twitter and you’re likely to find someone giving away an iPad, iPhone or iSomething. Contest marketing is everywhere on social media and it hasn’t escaped SMB owners looking for...
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Forum: Small Business Brief Archives
28th May 2010, 10:40 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,423
Pricing Based on Customer Expectations
If you can, try to offer different products or services at different price points. Offer a no-thrills price with very little in non-essentials. Offer a middle and a high-end price with more...
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Forum: Small Business Brief Archives
28th May 2010, 10:40 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,881
No-Image Email Design Experiment
I gave myself a challenge: design a visually engaging HTML email without using a single image. The biggest challenge of any designer is to work within the limitations of the project at hand. Fine, if...
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Forum: Small Business Brief Archives
27th May 2010, 07:20 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,538
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Forum: Small Business Brief Archives
27th May 2010, 06:12 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,839
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Forum: Small Business Brief Archives
26th May 2010, 09:04 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 2,142
Closing a Sale: How Great Sales Teams Do It
If you respect your customers and believe they are intelligent individuals with whom you wish to have long-term and mutually beneficial relationships, your goal should be to provide them with...
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Forum: Small Business Brief Archives
26th May 2010, 07:00 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,975
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Forum: Small Business Brief Archives
26th May 2010, 06:01 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,956
7 Tips for Managing a Remote Work Force
While sites like oDesk make it quick and easy to hire remote workers, it can sometimes be a challenge to manage them. Besides the fact that you can’t always meet face-to-face and you can’t see what...
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Forum: Small Business Brief Archives
26th May 2010, 02:50 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 2,176
10 Usability Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit
Over time certain conventions and best practices have been developed to help improve the general usability of websites during their design and build. This roundup of ten usability crimes highlights...
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Forum: Small Business Brief Archives
21st May 2010, 02:51 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 2,324
Go Ahead, Call Me A Twitter Snob!
I made the deliberate decision to keep my Twitter follows as small as possible, thereby breaking every social media "rule" known to man. I should be hung by my toes. I’m not going to tell anyone that...
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Forum: Small Business Brief Archives
21st May 2010, 02:51 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 14,041
5 Surprising Social Media Business Success Stories
Chances are, most of the businesses you interact with as a consumer are on social media. Your local restaurant is blogging, your grocery store is on Twitter - even your favorite candy is on Facebook....
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Forum: Small Business Brief Archives
19th May 2010, 03:21 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,798
How to Market Your Small Business With No Budget
From a marketing standpoint, it’s a great time to own or start a business. The social web makes it more cost-effective than ever to get the word out about your products and services, no matter what...
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Forum: Small Business Brief Archives
18th May 2010, 09:23 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,593
Blogging: Format for SEO and Readers
Using a blog to highlight your expertise and company is one thing. Using your blog intelligently to showcase your expertise in search engines and your authority to your readers is an entirely...
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Forum: Small Business Brief Archives
18th May 2010, 08:12 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,779
Tech Support *is* sales
When your customers expect a turd sandwich and you deliver a turkey club with chipotle mayonnaise, you earn major bonus points, like users twittering about your service, people switching to your...
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