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We have all heard the horror stories of big business pitted against small business.  The classic David and Goliath tale played out from Wall Street to Main Street with all kinds of financial causalities in their wake.  While the tales may differ, the moral is the same.  The big fish will always try to eat [...]

I apologize for the outlandish headline, but I don’t really think it’s any more outlandish than crowning Threadless as the sales guru of Twitter.  I’m sure you’ve read some recent press in the media bragging about Threadless being the company to emulate when it comes to monetizing on Twitter. (Read one article from Inc here) [...]

Congratulations! You’ve made it through the unique challenges 2009 had to offer small business owners, and now it’s time to celebrate.
With this in mind, here are a few tips to have a G-R-E-A-T holiday:
G: Give Back To The Community.
Volunteer to help a local charity. Donate your used clothing and other items to a worthy [...]

During my recent appearance on ABC News Now, I was lucky enough to be asked to provide some advice to fellow entrepreneurs who are growing businesses built around their passions.
Click here or on the image below to view that advice.

Let me know if you have a cool story you’d like to share with ABC News Now or [...]

In the process of promoting your products and services to potential customers, are you also promoting yourself?
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Competition is fierce today, and people want more for their money. This means that they are not just looking at products and services – but the people behind the businesses as well.
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With this in mind, what kind of image [...]

Since many of you commented on my last blog entry, here are three more free tools to help you with your small business PR activities:
1. Help a Reporter Out
PR Pro Peter Shankman set up this great site at http://www.helpareporter.com/. Simply enter your name and e-mail information. And each day, you’ll receive a list of reporters [...]

To follow up on a previous post requesting feedback on topics and offering to highlight members of the community, I learned of the BTS Blog started by Tom Blue, co founder of Lead411— BTS stands for Business, Technology and Sales.  The BTS Blog is dedicated to discussing startups, business trends, bootstrapping, tech companies, sales and [...]

Just wanted to send a quick reminder to everyone regarding the use of vanity usernames on Facebook.  As of June 13th at 12:01am EDT you will be able to create a vanity username for your Facebook profile or fan page.
Image via CrunchBase
This is TERRIFIC NEWS and will undoubtedly help with SEO ranking, name recognition, and [...]

When you’re on a bootstrap marketing budget, you can never have too many friends in media.  If you don’t have those connections now, there’s still hope.  You just might be able to win a few new media friends with the social media darling, Twitter.  Twitter has been a favorite of the media and public relations [...]

If you are using Twitter, you are “following” a number of Twitter feeds as well as being “followed” by a number. The more you use the service, the more you probably start liking certain feeds and paying closer attention to them. In a sense, you start becoming attached to them.
All of this is great, but [...]