Business Blogs: Trends, tips, and real-life anecdotes from industry experts.

The new Google Instant promises to make searches faster and easier, and you’ll be able to see results as you type.
But what does this mean for your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts?
Well, first of all, if you are overwhelmed with all of the information you hear about search engine optimization and have stopped moving [...]

Our friends at Kodak have generously (and very strategically) sponsored our next and upcoming 1-hour webinar:
Ways to Increase Profitability and Productivity
Gene Marks, a business management expert and entrepreneur I hold in high regard (as do Forbes, Business Week and American City Business Journals where he provides regular columns), is going to walk through proven, real-world methods to increase [...]

As you search the Internet, you probably visit many sites that offer free newsletters, reports, weekly updates, and more. And while this may seem like a lot of work, there is a reason so many businesses and organizations offer this information…
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They are capturing site visitor data to create customer relationships and grow sales.
 

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Social media has changed the face of marketing forever. What was once a one-way message pushed from the company to the consumer has become a two-way conversation, requiring both parties to participate. Now your customers have a voice in the marketplace and their voices are loud and clear.

After many months filled with long hours of writing marketing and publicity copy for clients, I was lucky enough to enjoy a vacation last week. Yes, it flew by, but during the trip, I read a very interesting book that go me thinking in a new way so I thought I’d share it with you. Â
Here’s [...]

Some of you StartupNation folks have already appeared on Shark Tank and you know the exposure (and possibly money) it can bring you.
Well, Shark Tank is back.
The producers of the ABC reality series are on a nationwide search to discover the next successful – and possibly wealthy – entrepreneurs, inventors, businesspersons, dreamers, promoters, creators and [...]

Care to join me in Vegas?
If you’ve been looking to, A) take your business to the next level; B) network with great people like you who run their own exciting businesses; C) meet experts who might have breakthrough ideas for you; or, D) need an excuse for a boondoggle to Vegas… then early October is [...]

I am ever amazed by the intensity and on-top-of-itness of competitors in the StartupNation Leading Moms in Business Ranking competition. The popular voting and entries phases have just closed and now we’re tabulating those votes and selecting stand-out competitors as judged winners.
It’s always a difficult process - so many of them deserve the spotlight that [...]

Lately I’ve noticed a problem that I thought was worth bringing up. That is; what happens to your social media when the person who’s doing it goes away?

Over the last year or so, location-based services that integrate tightly with mobile phones have been one of main themes watched by the venture world, and for good reason. As we continue moving forward in a world influenced less by mass media and more by our interactions with new technology (social networks, smart phones, etc), [...]