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

Ok. So it’s 5:00 a.m., and I walk to the kitchen to get a cup of coffee with my eyes half open.
Ugh! I forgot to put coffee into the machine last night, and there is just a pot of hot water waiting for me. Oh well. I’ll make a fresh batch and use the [...]

Great site: www.embracethelemon.com
Terrific example of a website that is almost 100% twitter feeds + has great you tube promotion. See their youtube channel.

The Lemon’s Lament

When you consider your business model (which includes your marketing efforts), you generally concentrate on these core components:

Why will people pay you? (money, votes, donations)
What does it cost you to sell your item…margins?
What protects you from competition, price-feature battles?
How will you turn an agnostic audience into loyal customers?

Early on when transactions had no costs, doing [...]

We’ve hit the 70+ posts mark (or thereabouts) on Start Up Nation…which seems like sort of a milestone in a way. Balloons didn’t drop from the ceiling (yet), and 70+ is a relatively low number but I’d like to know what issues are top of mind for you by writing a short feature on your [...]

I have written on social applications before, but just read this book and it made me re think how we approach technology.Â
From Amazon:
Imagine an almost instantaneous communication system that would allow people and governments all over the world to send and receive messages about politics, war, illness, and family events. The government has tried and failed [...]

Just reading a post on “is social marketing for the young” and I have to wonder…
I  hesitate to say if it’s generational or not, bc I might be on the line at age 35. But someone asked me today if I twitter or tweet — and I just had to laugh. I opt for the [...]