How to manage stress when running a business

Stress seems to be a permanent part of our lives. And to be honest, I’m not entirely sure that it has to be, but I’m also not entirely sure how to avoid it. But in an effort to work more effectively I’ve discovered that getting things done and feeling good about my work day has [...]

Content Marketing: How To Get Your Name In Front Of Hungry Prospects

  You need publicity. You need to get your name in front of your market. And you need to do it over and over, keeping it there so your audience calls you or visits your site when they need your help. There are a lot of ways you can grab publicity. Online press release distribution [...]

How to get the most out of your time

One of the barriers with running a business which I hear all too often isnot enough time. Running a business is time consuming and it’s imperative thatwe manage our time correctly in order to get everything done. Everyone is given the same amount of time. I look at successful business owners like Lord Alan Sugar [...]

10 Simple Steps Will Improve Your Business Blog

It is the start of a new week with new and fresh ideas, but you still can’t figure out what to write about for your business blog. Small Business Trends has come up with 10 steps to help improve your business blog. A great read through. You still want to be honest, open, and engaging [...]

Competitor Research

Monitoring what your competitors are doing is essential for any new start-up and for businesses as they grow. If you really want to stay on top of things you need to monitor competitor activities on an ongoing basis. Here are some tried and tested ways to keep up-to-date with what your competitors are up to. [...]

Business Tips: 7 Ways To Be Persuasive

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“If you want more, you need to be more” ~ Jim Rohn In order to succeed in business, we must learn to be persuasive. Of course, there is a huge difference between being persuasive and being pushy. This post describes 7 ways to master the “art” of persuasion. The results speak for themselves when transactions [...]

4 Optimization Experts Critique a College Break Landing Page | The Daily Egg

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  If you have heard it once you have heard it a thousand times, the value is in the list. Well then, how do you build a gargantuan list. Hint the landing page. This part is really what I would say is one of the most significant pieces of the success puzzle. Learn them good. [...]

Salesforce.com buys Clipboard in exit for ex-Microsoft researcher: Service to shut down June 30 – GeekWire

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  Clipboard has been acquired by Salesforce and will apparently shut down sometime in June. What will happen now with it. Your guess is as good as mine. Salesforce.com has purchased Clipboard, the Seattle startup led by former Microsoft researcher Gary Flake which drew comparison to Pinterest. It appears to be an “acquihire” situation as [...]

Branding With Your Name via @jplussocial

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Do you ever think about your name? Why you go by a certain name? Why it’s spelled the way it is? Or maybe why it’s pronounced the way it is? Or wonder what in the world some parents were thinking when they gave their children the names they did? What’s in a name? Obviously, a [...]

10 ways to use #Twittervine for Business

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Vines are a new fun and easy way to engage with your audience. About three months ago, a new app that works with Twitter, named Vine, was launched. This easy to use and already very popular app “lets you capture and share short looping videos.” Vines are basically regular tweets, but in a different format: [...]

How Corporate Storytelling Blurs Lines of Paid, Earned, Owned Media

But more than just falling out of favor, the concept of the “ad” has changed. When PandoDaily, a Silicon Valley blog, asked Kirk Cheyfitz, CEO of Story Worldwide, to name the best online ads of 2012, he wrote a post: “The best online ads of 2012 weren’t ads.” Explains Cheyfitz, “My picks were not paid [...]

A Brief History of LinkedIn

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In late 2002, Reid recruits a team of old colleagues from SocialNet and PayPal to work on a new idea. Six months later, LinkedIn launches. Growth is slow at first—as few as 20 signups on some days—but, by the fall, it shows enough promise to attract an investment from Sequoia Capital. via A Brief History [...]