3 days ago by Staci Wood

Every year I do a certain number of holiday cartoons. While they always sell well, they’re among the hardest ideas to generate. Thanksgiving is the hardest. Halloween and Christmas have tons of great stuff to play with, and Valentine’s Day is pretty good, but Thanksgiving is pretty much just turkey. ...

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4 days ago by Lisa Barone

It’s not stalking. It’s research. It’s you doing research on your competitors to help you stay up-to-date on what they’re doing so you know which direction you should go. It’s not stalking and everyone’s doing it. Here’s a list of 11 tools that can help you track your competitors movements on the We ...

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12 days ago by Anita Campbell

On October 22nd, I announced the first in a series of videos that I did for UPS and provided a bit of the backstory behind the filming of the videos. Today, I’m pleased to announce the second video. It’s about taking risks in business. Even the most wildly successful entrepreneurs do not have 100% w ...

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12 days ago by Lisa Barone

Google got all the local search experts talking last week with the release of an updated (and then re-updated) set of Business Listing Guidelines. Google hopes the new rules will help cut down on the amount of spam popping up in local search. But have they made things even more complicated for small ...

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21 days ago by Travis Campbell

Every small business marketer wants to be intentional about their marketing — ideally, marketers should have a marketing calendar. Truth is, many organizations do not. It’s 60 days before the end of the year. There’s still time to take steps to close out the year strong. The following ideas work aro ...

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24 days ago by Kelvin Parker

Small Business Trends interviewed four entrepreneurs about startups and how best to get started. No where in the article did they mention how to make money fast, because these entrepreneurs usually learned the hard way… This successful group came up with some rules for a business’s first 3 years of ...

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25 days ago by Lisa Barone

I’m about a bit late on this (welcome to my life), but I thought it was important enough to still warrant a mention. It was announced in the Google Maps forums and on Search Engine Roundtable that, as of last week, business owners will be able to see a Maps link for every one of their businesses lis ...

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25 days ago by John Sternal

Are you about to launch a new blog? If so do you have an action plan? I absolutely love the plan Small Business Trends put together talking about this very item. It’s critical to have a game plan before you launch your blog so that you can maximize your blog right from the start. Here are some impor ...

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26 days ago by Lisa Barone

Life is so unfair. Just because they’re shiner, Twitter and Facebook often scoop up the attention for being social networking powerhouses. And they are! However, if you’re a small business owner, you also need to be paying attention to LinkedIn. Over the past few years, LinkedIn has proven itself to ...

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26 days ago by Justice Mitchell

The last thing I thought you'd hear me say is "oh you should go to the UPS site it some great little chunks of intel' there." But indeed that is what I'm about to tell you. UPS has partnered with credible companies such as Mashable, TechDirt, VentureBeat & Small Business Trends to put together a gre ...

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