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

This week I got an unsolicited telephone call from Google, which started me thinking. Why is Google, who is unquestionably the king of online marketing, engaging in telemarketing? What I discovered was surprising. Here are five marketing lessons small business owners can learn from Google.

You just finished updating your search engine optimization (SEO) with Google’s Panda update, and now you hear that Google is making another update. What do you do?
Well, don’t’ stress out. You have no control over what Google does. But there is one thing you can do to ensure you maintain your top SEO rankings, or [...]

I feel as though I am always writing about social media and the rapid changes of that thing we affectionately call the ‘Internet’ here at StartUpNation.  There must be a reason why I feel as though both you and I should stay up to date with this rapidly changing area.  No, it is not to stay [...]

Four reasons why a Google+ business page may be the best social media marketing investment you make.

Almost daily there are so many changes to social media and in turn how they impact startup business that it often overwhelming. I am sure that you feel it is hard to keep up.
Recently, a few new changes were rolled out across the web and I noticed a couple of patterns that I believe are [...]

Hi gang,
I really love twitter. Actually, I can’t stand it.  What a wonderful tool - and what a waste. I am so conflicted - I am the @chazbono of Twitter users.
I’m not going to take the time to explain to you what Twitter is, because you already know what it is.  It’s [...]

Hi Gang,
Internet bubble? What internet bubble?
Yesterday, Groupon filed the paperwork to become a publicly traded company.  Sometime this year, you will be able to buy stock in Groupon and join the other 500 million people making Groupon stock discount jokes.
Last year, Groupon turned down a $6 BILLION offer from Google.  Laughable, right? Well guess what: [...]

Google is always changing things and as small business owners who count on Google for new customers, we need to keep up on what’s going on because it impacts our business. Here are some of the recent changes, and some tips on what you can do to take advantage of those changes to better market your business.

This is the second time this year (so far) that I’ve done a shameless plug for a product offered here at StartupNation. But when I believe in something so strongly — in its value and transformative power to set businesses on a more successful path — I just can’t help it!
This one’s called Google Rocketship and [...]

Ready or not, Google is turning real-time. In the past week, Google has started including real-time listings on the first page of its results. The initiative is appropriately called “Real-Time Search.”
So, instead of just listing articles, images, videos, blog postings, etc. in its results, Google is now incorporating a list of rotating items from Twitter [...]