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Small Business News 10/31/2012

EmailSuccess Helps Businesses Avoid Costly Newsletter Errors – smallbiztrends.com Email marketing is a widely used tool among all types of businesses, but these campaigns can only garner results if they appeal to consumers and don’t contain critical errors. Now, companies have options to help ensure their customers don’t receive emails …

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Small Business News 10/24/2012

Igloo Software: Cloud Collaboration That Scales With Businesses – smallbiztrends.com It’s no secret that cloud computing and mobile technology have changed the way modern workplaces operate. But with so many cloud-based collaboration tools available, businesses can have a hard time choosing the solution that works best for their company’s needs, …

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Small Business News 10/10/2012

Twin Engines for Your Business – ducttapemarketing.com/blog DearWorld.me shot by Robert Fogarty This week my latest book, The Commitment Engine – Making Work Worth It, ships in the U.S. The central theme of the book is purpose – or more specifically, how to get very clear about why you do …

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Dealing With Online Customer Reviews

One of the big things any small business needs to handle is customer reviews. It can be a bit harder online since pretty much anyone, at any time can put a review up about you without your knowledge. The best thing you can do, as a small business is to …

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Web Equity-owning your local web presence

When I saw this graphic, I thought it was awesome, so I wanted to reproduce it here.  It comes from Mike Blumenthal’s post: Infographic: Owning Your Local Web Equity Mike wrote this about what the graphic. The goal of this infographic was to provide a foundation for that understanding from …

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YouGottaCall Awarded Patent

Got a copy of this press release from my good friend Tim yesterday so I wanted to share it with everyone. Connecticut-based YouGottaCall.com Awarded Patent for Online, Word-of-Mouth Referral System June 7, 2011 South Windsor, CT YouGottaCall.com is a Web-based word-of-mouth referral service for consumers and businesses. Today, YouGottaCall.com, LLC …

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Web Hosting for Small Business

Thought I would take a bit of time out of my normal postings to provide an article about web hosting for small business websites. For a website to function and work for the small business it has to be properly designed, optimized, and promoted but it also needs to UP! …

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