Ensure Your Business Has The Right Type of Insurance

July 28, 2010 by smallbizbee
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 Do you have the correct types and amounts of insurance coverage for your business? Most people understand that they need to purchase coverage for their personal vehicles and the homes they live in, yet many business owners don’t consider that coverage for their business is just as important. No matter the size of your business,... [read more]

Customer Support is the New Marketing (or Not)

July 28, 2010 by AlbertWenger1
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Rob Kalin from Etsy has referred to customer support as marketing and Etsy has significantly enhanced its customers support team to cut down response time dramatically.   Danny Meyer in his book Setting the Table and the actual operations of his restaurants also makes helping the customer central to the experience.  I... [read more]

Is Flipboard’s Buzz Bad Timing or Good Marketing?

July 28, 2010 by TimBerry
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 What do you think? Is this bad timing, a buzz killing mistake, or artificial scarcity that creates more buzz? I was in email recently with the founder of one of the coolest new-news apps available on the iPad, and he asked me what I thought about Flipboard. I’m guessing why he asked: all that buzz, all at once. This is an iPad app... [read more]

Social Media Reputation Management – Google Profile

July 28, 2010 by DamienSaunders1
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Did you know that Google has a profile page and that it’s similar to a profile page on LinkedIn. Managing your reputation and curating your personal SEO plan is something you should do at least once a year. About Google Profile Google Profile can be associated with a normal Gmail e-mail address along with Google Apps domains and other... [read more]

Smart Small Businesses Have a Backup Plan

July 27, 2010 by JessWells
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You’re out on a relaxing evening at a public place. Maybe you’re having dinner with your family, or maybe you’re having drinks with some coworkers after a long day. As you’re reaching for your wallet, your heart suddenly drops into your stomach as you notice that your wallet is not there. You pat your pockets or check your purse and... [read more]

Using the Internet for Start-Up Success

July 27, 2010 by smallbizbee
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 Entrepreneur Christian Arno started his translation and localization company Lingo24 in 2001, with a degree in French and Italian from Oxford and a handful of start-up money.    Initially working from the spare room in his parent’s house in Aberdeen, Scotland, today Arno has built Lingo24 up to become Scotland’s largest... [read more]

Leadership Development: Executive Self-Assessment

July 27, 2010 by DanMcCarthy
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What’s the #1 differentiator between companies that excel at succession planning and leadership development and those that simply “go through the motions”?It’s the ownership and commitment of the senior executive team. They believe in its strategic importance and treat it as a high priority. Without this, the typical reaction from... [read more]

What’s Your Social Spread?

July 27, 2010 by JDeragon
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  As more and more organizations use all things social to attract audiences the issues of “spread” becomes a focal point for reaching the right audience. In statistics, statistical dispersion is variability or spread in a variable of probable distribution. Probable distribution is important to distribution of relevant content in... [read more]

We Are Both Speaking English, Are We not?

July 27, 2010 by NiallDevitt2
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Do you ever find yourself explaining something to someone and when you’ve finished speaking they look at you as if you’d just rattled off something in fluent Japanese? So, you start over, doing your best to explain it so that they understand you, yet you still get that baffled look? Then you resort to speaking slower, as if that will... [read more]

HOW TO: View your WordPress Website on iPhone or Android

July 26, 2010 by DamienSaunders1
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WordPress is a very comprehensive all-round tool for websites – and its not just for blogs. If you’re starting out with WordPress and need your site to look smooth on a mobile phone like the iPhone or any big screen Android mobile then you’ll need a plugin for this. The best plugin for WordPress that handles any mobile device is easily... [read more]

Journalism and Blogging: Both Sides Now

July 26, 2010 by TimBerry
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 Jolie O’Dell is a journalist who blogs. She cares about journalism, I gather, because of the way she writes about it in posts like How to Tell a Journalist from a Blogger and not all bloggers are journalists and not all journalists are jerks on her own blog. Most of the time, though, she’s a very prolific tech writer for Mashable.... [read more]

Exposing Yourself Using Location Based Services – What Are Your Risks?

July 26, 2010 by ShashiBellamkonda1
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 Last Wednesday, there was a conference designed around one of the newest crazes in web technology and social media here in San Francisco: geo-location. What is geo-location? Think about it like your GPS device..it uses satellites and cell towers to figure out where you are. But in this case, the conference isn’t talking about your... [read more]
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