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The holidays can be one of the busiest and most profitable selling seasons of the year for small business owners. Here are 9 of the “best darn” holiday marketing ideas from small business owners across the US.

Happy Halloween!
Have you added search engine optimization (SEO) keywords to your site but aren’t seeing results?
Did you send out a press release to hundreds of reporters without receive one phone call?
Are you ready to “throw in the towel”?
This may be scary stuff, but don’t stop now!
While you may think you have done what it takes [...]

It was a BIG week for me last week. I celebrated both the one year anniversary of my blog and my birthday.  Truthfully, I was a little more excited about my blogaversary.  I could stand to not have a birthday or two, but it was a lot of fun to take a look back at [...]

I have been on the phone since 5:00 a.m., and it’s now 11:00 a.m. I just got a major media-venue to agree to an exclusive story about my client. But, it’s been one hour since I spoke to him, and I haven’t heard back… what gives?
I call him up, and he says he has not received [...]

There is a lot of buzz about how QR codes are the latest and greatest marketing thing for small business. So the question is; why should we adopt QR codes in our marketing? Here are 6 ways other businesses are using QR codes for marketing. Maybe one of these will work for your business.

Exactly a year ago, I began my inventing odyssey.  Over breakfast, I announced to my family that I was going to extract the idea that I had in my head and take it from inception to market.  I sounded very confident, but in reality I knew very little about how I was going to do [...]

I can’t do that!
I don’t want to!
Wa! Wa! Wa!
Sounds like a small child not getting his or her way, doesn’t it?
Well, believe it or not, I’ve heard plenty of adults saying these exact same things recently and felt the need for a little pep talk via this blog.
Whether it’s a difficult kickboxing class, a small-business [...]

According to the National Retail Foundation, Halloween 2011 is poised to be one of the biggest Halloweens for business in nine years with approximately 70% of consumers indicating they plan on celebrating it this year. Don’t miss out on this huge opportunity to market your business this Halloween. Here are 9 Halloween marketing ideas from other small business owners across the US. Use one of these to jump-start your own ideas for Halloween marketing.

As I approach my ONE year anniversary of membership in the StartupNation Community, I am consciously taking some time to reflect on the last year! It has been quite a whirlwind in which I literally woke up one morning and started a business (for those of you who do not know, I am an inventor [...]

Don’t have much time and need to update your Website?
No worries. Here are three things you can do to add valuable information to your Website in 30 minutes, or less:
1. Add a Link to Cool Information.
Did you just read an interesting article in the newspaper, a news item on an industry site or even a “fun” [...]