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10 Steps to Boost Your Webinar Registration and Attendance

January 26, 2012 by Katie Reynolds with 78 views

Have you used webinars lately to nurture your audience? They’re a great tool to engage an audience with your content and your brand – if you can get people to register and attend. It can be difficult to get very busy people to open an email and commit themselves to an hour-long webinar. [read more]

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5 Tips for Bootstrapping a College Web Based Business

December 30, 2011 by Greg Muender with 48 views

Greg Muender is President of Ticket Kick, a California company that helps drivers get <a href=”http://www.ticketkick.com/red-light-camera-tickets/”>red light tickets</b>, <a href=”http://www.ticketkick.com”>speeding tickets</b> and other traffic tickets dismissed by helping drivers through the <a href=”http://www.ticketkick.com/how-it-works/”>trial by written declaration</b> process. The company, which formally launched in 2010 after providing similar services since 2006, is the leading company in this space and growing rap [read more]

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Holy Health Care, Batman, Small Business Needs Help!

November 14, 2011 by Robin Carey with 102 views

If you are, like me, trying to run a small business which attracts leading talent, you are also faced with the growing challenge of providing benefits that make choosing your company over, say, IBM, more attractive. Beyond the external costs, the administrative burden of managing the choice of insurers, especially when you have employees in different states and with different health needs, is becoming ever more complex and demanding. [read more]

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Got In On Groupon's IPO? Will You Sell?

November 4, 2011 by Carissa Wodehouse with 65 views

After its IPO today Groupon is still up from its initial price of $20, but will it hold? If you bought, are you planning to flip your shares soon? [read more]

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Why Google Apps and Plus is Valuable for Small Business: You Don't Know What You Don't Know

October 28, 2011 by Carissa Wodehouse with 340 views

Google announced today on their blog that Google+ will now work with Google Apps, meaning businesses and schools that use Google Apps for email can get onto Google Plus and all the sharing it offers. This is a big step in getting the business world online for internal communications. [read more]

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Conscious Commuter on Partnering to Bring Innovative Electric Bikes to Market

October 12, 2011 by Carissa Wodehouse with 109 views

We met with the team behind the Conscious Commuter folding electric bikes after their panel on transportation at SXSWeco. They recently successfully completed (and exceeded) a Kickstarter campain to raise $25,000. Here they describe the startup process, electric bike use worldwide, and the importance of providing people with an option for the first and last mile of a commute. [read more]

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Scott Anderson of The Green Skeptic on Clean Tech at SXSWeco

October 7, 2011 by Carissa Wodehouse with 72 views

We met with Scott Edward Anderson, founder of The Green Skeptic, after his panel ECO-nomics: Re-envisioning Financial Services for the 21st Century, at SXSWeco 2011. Here he discusses Solyndra, how AirBnB is a clean tech company, and the politicization of tech. [read more]

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William Shutkin on Entrepreneurship and Green Education at Presidio Graduate School

October 6, 2011 by Carissa Wodehouse with 47 views

We met with William Shutkin, President and CEO of Presidio Graduate School, after his presentation on the panel Training the New Generation of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs at SXSWeco 2011. [read more]

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Ranking Green Business School Programs at Beyond Grey Pinstripes, SXSWeco [Video]

October 5, 2011 by Carissa Wodehouse with 38 views

We caught up with Judy Samuelson, Executive Director of the Business and Society Program at Aspen Institute, after the panel Training the New Generation of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs at SXSWeco 2011. She created the Business and Society Program in 1998. Here she describes Beyond Grey Pinstripes (www.beyondgreypinstripes.org), the Aspen Institute's interactive site which ranks business schools on their green programs. [read more]

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Stuart Decew of Yale on Business Education and Entrepreneurship at SXSWeco [Video]

October 5, 2011 by Carissa Wodehouse with 35 views

We sat down with Stuart Decew of the Yale Center for Business and the Environment at SXSWEco 2011 to talk about the future of business education. [read more]

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5 Immutable Rules for Tax Happiness [Exclusive]

August 31, 2011 by Barbara Weltman with 89 views

When it comes to income taxes, no one wants to pay one penny more than necessary and, certainly, no one wants to invite the IRS to examine the return. After more than 35 years in dealing with taxes, here are my five rules to follow to make sure that taxes are minimized legally and safely so you can sleep at night. [read more]

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5 Keys to Positioning Yourself for a SBA Loan

August 12, 2011 by CDC Small Busines... with 71 views

With access to capital so tight now, many small business owners wonder what they can do to best position themselves for a “yes” when they approach a lender for an SBA loan. Here’s what the lender will look for in the initial consideration. [read more]

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Government and Economics Aren't Mixing

July 30, 2011 by Jim Daddario with 29 views

Regardless of your party affiliation, the debate in Washington is alarming, dysfunctional and should give every American pause about what it bodes for the economy. Partisan debates aside, the laws of economics always trump passion. Let's look at the facts. US GDP is driven by four factors: Consumer spending (which accounts for about 70%... [read more]

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What Will Fix the Job Situation? Small Business Creates 64% of New Jobs

July 11, 2011 by Barbara Weltman with 167 views

With unemployment now at 9.2%, it’s time to admit that whatever the federal government has been doing to create jobs isn’t working. It’s time to re-think who the job creators are and what can be done to help them. [read more]

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Creating A Strategic Plan Can Bring Focus To Your Enterprise

June 17, 2011 by Colm Byrne with 166 views

Working to a stable strategic plan can be crucial to the success or failure of a small business. [read more]

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Local businesses – Focus on Customer loyalty first

May 25, 2011 by Alex Chang with 248 views

Local Business Owners – your highest priority in Social Marketing is making loyal customers even more so Sure, you want the phone to ring off the hook with new customers.  After all, new customers means more sales revenue right?  Whether you own a restaurant, spa or CPA firm – you care about new business. So it stands to reason... [read more]

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Making the big startup Pivot - what I learned

May 23, 2011 by Alex Chang with 301 views

After founding Roost in 2007 and raising a healthy chunk of venture investment to build a big b2c business, we made the decision to aggressively pivot the business.  What was once a vertical search site is now a fast growing SaaS platform that empowers small & local businesses on the Social Web. Needless to say, the decision to... [read more]

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Is it Time to Raise Your Prices?

May 10, 2011 by Barbara Weltman with 346 views

It seems that everyone else is doing this now. According to the April 2011 NFIB Small Business Optimism Index, a monthly survey of small business owners, 12% of responders raised their prices in April and another 24% indicated that they planned to do so.Why raise prices nowThere are compelling reasons to consider price increases at this... [read more]

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What USPS Can Teach Small Businesses about Going Green

April 24, 2011 by Geri Stengel with 80 views

The USPS has saved $27 million by going green. Small businesses can learn money-saving tips from how it was done. [read more]

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Do You Have a Back-up Plan?

April 22, 2011 by Andrew Hunt with 270 views

Great entrepreneurs and business executives live their life with no plan B. Great achievement often happens when our backs are against the wall. Pressure can actually enhance your performance. When you have to meet payroll, or are scared to death that the check you cut for those desperately needed supplies will bounce, you know pressure. When this heat is on, you find ways to make things happen. [read more]

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