Kiplinger: Defending your business online can be a matter of survival. Companies that ignore damaging and often malicious attacks are taking a big risk. And the danger is growing as negative comments are increasingly being posted online in blogs, chat rooms, online industry forum boards and consumer protection and public service sites. Even small and […]
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The Wall Street Journal: Product appearances in TV shows and movies are no longer exclusively for big companies with marketing budgets to match. Publicists and other promoters are actively going after small businesses for product-placement opportunities. And from Facebook to Twitter to bloggers, more ways exist to chat up and spread the word about a
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Huffington Post: MovieWedge was developed after a plane ride where I wanted to watch some movies I had saved on my iPhone to pass the time. After holding my phone for about 30 minutes I began to get tired. I tried stacking it up on magazines, soda cans, crumpled up paper, you name it! I
photo credit: Robert S. Donovan There are probably a million websites on the web that tout solutions for marketing and promoting your business online. When you are getting started it can be very difficult to know who the true professionals are and it can take months to figure out where the high quality information is
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Website Magazine: Feeling data-stressed? Got some info-tension? You’re not alone. Recently a conference was organized by Basex to discuss, what else, information overload. Some interesting facts and ideas come from the conference: – The cost of Information Overload to the U.S. economy is $900 billion annually, as of 2008. – A mere 12% of the
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photo credit: Damien Basile Today you can never have too many social network connections. What you may not find on one site, you may find on another site that will boost your traffic and connections. In business it is always a good idea to have numerous options in terms of social connections. Below is a
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USA TODAY: A beer summit at the White House might be just what premium brewers needed to lift sales for the rest of the summer. Sales for the $90 billion beer business are soft so far this summer – traditionally the time when most beer is sold. Analysts split the blame between the weak economy
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ReadWriteWeb: Michael van Poppel used to be like a lot of young people, trawling the internet for interesting news about the world. Just like many others have considered doing, he created a place where he could post the most interesting news he finds, as fast as he can. Today he’s one of the most-watched movers
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photo credit: jurvetson With all of the information that people post to the Internet very publicly these days, you can paint almost a perfect picture of their lifestyle, their world, likes and dislikes as long as you track their activity and actually put the information into your database. No matter what approach you employ for
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 photo credit: geishaboy500 While today yes there are so many different web tools to choose from and you don’t need every single one, there are also many that a business definitely can benefit from and should have for their business. Below are a select few of the web tools for social media that I
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