Hashable App For Iphone And Android | Throw Away Your Business Cards?

If your Twittering is over the top and you’re using an iPhone or Android Phone, it may just be time to toss the paper business cards altogether.

Greetings have never been easier, and they’re more social too. With myriad ways to connect and stay connected and see who your contacts are connecting with too, those business cards in your desk drawer may have gone outdated for the last time.

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Hashable App For Iphone And Android | Throw Away Your Business Cards? – Mario Armstrong

Keeping Customers Is the New Lead Generation

Keeping Customers Is the New Lead Generation

Losing a customer today is a devastating experience. Don’t underestimate the damage and the cost and the difficulty of replacing even one lost customer.

Turn your service and your site into Customer Retention Machine, and your customers into loyal partners who are not only willing to work with you, but who do so because there’s something in it for them. It’s easier than it sounds and it’s already happening.

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Keeping Customers Is the New Lead Generation – Duct Tape Marketing

Web Design Tips | 10 Common Mistakes To Avoid

Most folks older than ten remember the internet of flashing colors and moving images and long scrollable pages. Every once in a while you can still surf across a true museum relic with multiple text colors and no real navigation.

What sent so many sites to the dustbin were some pretty widely understood principles of basic design. You might be surprised how many of the most common mistakes linger on. Finishing them off on your own site is the order of the day.

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Web Design Tips | 10 Common Mistakes To Avoid – SitePro News

Is A Fake Cobra More Interesting Than You?

In the course of a few days, a parody Twitter account in New York achieved what Social Media Gurus have spent years trying to do.

What can you learn about making a connection, establishing relevance and engaging the world, including the major media, from a snake that escaped at the zoo?

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Is A Fake Cobra More Interesting Than You? – Small Business Trends

Small Business on the Up and Up

In spite of the great recession, an economic rebound seems to be in the works. Entrepreneurship is more than a way of life and small businesses have created somewhere between 50,000 and 91,000 jobs (depending on the sources you consult) in just the last month.

This quick check-in with the broader economic picture of the last month goes on to challenge assumptions about the overall state of entrepreneurial-ism and, importantly, the gap in tax reporting by small businesses too.

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Small Business on the Up and Up – Small Business Trends

Small Business News | Best Small Biz Tips Today

Your presence online requires more and more knowledge and extensive forays into areas once only vaguely related to your industry, and passing a lot of that back to your customers.

Here’s a wealth of information on the week’s best new tips and tricks affecting small business, from tax and legal information, to reducing stress and building up your help section and offering customer service that’s over the top.

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Small Business News | Best Small Biz Tips Today – Small Business Trends

March 2011 | RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS

RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS

For brands, increasingly open communications both with and between consumers (especially online), means that it’s never been easier to surprise and delight audiences with R.A.K.: whether sending gifts, responding to publicly expressed moods or just showing that they care…

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2010 SEO Predictions That Came True | A SPN Exclusive Article

Still catching up with Google’s latest algorithm change? Lot’s of predictions actually came true in the last year, and as fast as you think business is moving today, the SEO landscape is moving just as fast.

Here are seven SEO predictions that came to pass and that will exert significant influence over how every successful SEO strategy is going to be decided in 2011. By this time next year, you’ll be glad you paid attention.

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2010 SEO Predictions That Came True | A SPN Exclusive Article – SitePro News

4 Trends Your Business Should Take Advantage of Now

It is always a good idea to keep an eye on business trends to see if they should be incorporated into your internet marketing plan. Here are 4 current business trends that could have an affect your marketing and business operations.

If adopted correctly, these trends could account for a huge shift in your marketing plan and take your business to the next level.

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4 Trends Your Business Should Take Advantage of Now – Small Biz Trends

Experts Tackle The Definitions Of | What Is Cloud Computing?

Computing in the cloud is an increasingly popular and cost effective way to get the job done. Unfortunately, there are almost as many definitions for “cloud computing” as there are applications out there.

Whatever your latest definition of cloud computing, somehow it is, or will very shortly, affect the way you’re doing business. From shared documents to applications and services, here are the key benefits of what’s coming and what you can expect.

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Experts Tackle The Definitions Of | What Is Cloud Computing? – SitePro News