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It is common practice to set New Year’s resolutions in our personal lives, but how often do we do it for our business? Here are 28 Small Business Marketing Resolutions for the New Year that will inspire you to write your own.

Whether you’re a startup or you’ve been in business a while, you don’t have to spend a lot of money on marketing to get extraordinary results. Here are some usual marketing ideas that reaped extraordinary results from nine business owners across the US. Use their ideas to come up with your own unusual marketing ideas.

Facebook is the second most popular website in the world for every day people like you and me, and that makes it one of the most popular websites in the world for hackers. Chances are, you’ve been hacked yourself. Here are 7 tips to make your Facebook experience be a more secure one.

Approximately 30% of American mobile phone users have a smart phone and adoption rates are increasing. According to comScore, a digital market intelligence company, it’s estimated that by the end of 2011, that number will have increased to 50%. This represents a huge opportunity to small business owners who have retail locations. Here are 9 of the top mobile coupon applications to market your small business.

Facebook recently implemented the “Deals” feature for businesses on Facebook Places, the GPS enabled check-in feature available on many mobile phones.
According to Facebook,
“Deals gives businesses the opportunity to reward customers when they check in on Facebook, and this helps generate awareness, encourage in-store traffic and build customer loyalty.”
At first the “Deals” function was limited to [...]

Google recently announced that Facebook results will be integrated into real time search results. This means that having a Facebook Fan page can become a huge opportunity for business owners to increase their visibility and get found by new customers. But if you don’t have a Facebook Fan page for your business, you will miss out!

In this post, I’ve compiled a list of 7 Great Tips to market your business using your Facebook fan page. If you don’t know how to get your own Facebook Fan page, however, read this article first: How to create a Facebook Fan Page for Your Business.