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Knowing Your Target Market

photo credit: dustinj Everyone in business knows that you have a certain demographic or market that you target your products and services towards. There are several different markets that a business owner can target towards depending on what they are offering. Entrepreneur.com recently posted an article regarding your many different markets. Obviously with all of

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Summertime Steps To Success

Hartford Business Journal: I’m convinced you can turn the summer of 2009 into one of your most productive ever. And I’ve come up with nine steps to make your summer a business success: 1. Develop your fall marketing plan. Be ready to hit the ground running when your customers are ready to start buying again.

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I Recommend 1-800-GOOG-411

I’ve been using this for a long time, but if you’re still calling 411 you should try Google’s 411 service, Goog-411. It’s free and better in one important way than your phone company’s information service: Have ever had your car battery die in the middle of the night, in a scary part of a strange

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Make Money With Free iPhone Apps

How does someone make money from free iPhone applications? Yesterday, they relied on using the free version as a trial version or advertising for the paid version of their application. Starting today, though, developers can monetize their free apps directly with Google AdSense for Mobile Applications. Here’s the story of one developer:

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Cooking Up A Nonprofit

DailyCamera.com: On any weekend, you’re likely to find Bridget Lane baking cookies. But her cookies are a little more complex than the average chocolate chip treat and not just because they’re gluten free. Lane’s cookies got their start in a special situation and have grown into a business designed to nourish those in special situations.

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Tweeting For Profit

Fortune Small Business: A year ago Kris Drey couldn’t care less about Twitter. With 13 years of Web site experience, Drey is no technophobe. He serves as vice president of product marketing at Fliqz, an online video-hosting service with 20 employees in Emeryville, Calif. But when he first skimmed Twitter, the popular micromessaging service launched

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Setting Up A Home Office 101

Worcester Business Journal: Ah, the joys of working from home. No battling the rush hour traffic. No rushed lunch breaks. No crammed workspaces surrounded by sterile, gray cubicle walls. Sounds like a worker’s paradise, doesn’t it? Be advised, it may not be as easy as you think. The following advice, provided by Linda Novey-White, a

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