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I started my Saturday this past weekend with a midwest to westcoast flight. By the time I was over the Rockies, I was so excited to get to work on the new ideas filling my head that I couldn’t WAIT to get off that plane!
I had just finished reading through Josh Linkner’s brand new book, Disciplined [...]

“My site is optimized for the search engines, and it’s not showing up online.”
Yep. I hear this a lot. And unfortunately, I have to tell a lot of entrepreneurs that they just wasted their money.
Maybe you can relate?
Did you just spend a lot of time and money on a search-engine-optimization (SEO) service promising you [...]

Have you ever spent a lot of money on a traditional (print, television, radio) advertisement for your business and have it not work? Here’s what you need to know about advertising before you spend another dime.

As an inventor with a new product idea (or improvement to an existing product), it’s important to understand the various types of protection that are available to you.  Let’s assume that your idea provides benefit and usefulness (not just a visual design) ~ you might consider filing either a non-provisional patent (a “Utility Patent”) or [...]

In case you have never heard of Wordpress, it is the backend content management system (CMS) that runs sites such as CNN, the WSJ Magazine, and even these StartupNation Business Blogs. With the release of version 3.1, Wordpress is making a solid move from "blogging software" to a solid CMS. While there are many awesome [...]

Today, Yahoo! sent announcements to all of its MyBlogLog account holders to announce the shutdown of MyBlog on May 24, 2011. This is not a surprise to anyone who caught Yahoo’s announced plans to "sunset" some of their services such as Delicious and MyBlogLog back in December.

The journey from the Yahoo! purchase of MyBlogLog to [...]

In October, 2010, I woke up and announced to my family that I was going to start a business.  It went something like this, “Good Morning!  Today, I am going to become a mompreneur.  Have a great day at school.”  I know it sounds a little flippant, but there really was no other way of [...]

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I recently spoke to Kimberly Palmer. She’s the senior editor and personal finance columnist for US News & World Report. And in addition to appearing on NBC’s Today show, CNBC, CNN, and local television and radio shows nationwide, she has also written for the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and the Asahi Shimbun/International Herald [...]

What is the biggest marketing challenge that you have in your business? According to a survey by Marketing Sherpa, 78% of businesses say that their biggest marketing challenge is generating high quality leads. What marketing strategy is the best at accomplishing that goal? The answer is not what you think.

Hi gang,
How do you get your product noticed in our current sea of product noise? Obviously, the way to be noticed is to wrap yourself inside a giant egg and be carried somewhere by the entire cast of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, right?
Yep, you’ll be noticed for sure.  Lady Gaga was certainly noticed when [...]