Founded in 2005, MerchantCircle combines online reputation management capabilities with quick and easy online marketing tools for local business owners with a desire to use the internet to grow their...
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America's manufacturing sector does not have to "race to the bottom" to win against overseas competition. Training the workforce to fill highly skilled, well-paying jobs, and then...
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I'm on a technology kick today. Found another tool thanks to my SEO genius friend, Paul Mycroft, called SEOmoz. SEOmoz offers a neato tool that lets you enter your web address and see just how...
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The Times, They Are a-Changing I'm moving and part of the process requires packing. I will confess that this is my 27th move in less than 50 years. OH - that just reminded me - in fifth grade I...
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A disappearing warehouse. A software glitch caused the warehouse to vanish, not from physical view, but from the watchful eyes of a well-known retailer's automated distribution system. Goods...
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The debate is on! Or, at least the debate will be on early next month at CMO 2007, a forum hosted by Red Herring which plans to attract 200 CMOs and other experts from the technology and communication...
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Have you heard of Todd And? Chris Brown of Marketing Resources and Results turned me on to him yesterday and I have my reading cut out for me for the next year! Todd has a marketing blog called The...
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I have a dream today! I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and...
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Kudos to Wayne Hulbert at Blog Business World. Every small business began with a dream, a business plan of varying degrees of complexity, and a lot of hard work. Customers and clients were sought and...
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Have you heard of Murphy's Law? You know - the feeling that perhaps you woke up on the wrong side of the bed, or the phrase "every good deed gets punished?" It must happen a lot because...
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As a relatively new blogger, the details of reaching out on line elude me. I can add a photo and write a post and even link to another site, but tagging and kick backs and pings and metadata and...
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The essence of leadership is relationship. The essence of relationship is emotion. In reasonably effective companies, most employees operate on a continuum somewhere between compliance and commitment....
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RSS is technology - a simple software program - that allows you to access web and blog content automatically. Feed readers or RSS readers, are software programs that run on your computer (or PDA or...
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Filed in archive Finance
by Deborah Brown on January 13, 2007
Two of my computers went on the fritz this week and so I called a friend, Stacy Jones, who started a computer repair business called LanFellas to come fix my problems. "I charge $75 per...
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EPS doubled under your leadership and sales increased from $45.7 billion to $81.5 billion but your job became more difficult when the housing market tanked. You expanded into Mexico and China, looking...
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Filed in archive Sales
by Steve Rucinski on January 13, 2007
Ego Less Selling is truly the best way to serve and grow your client base but can you go all the way to tough love with your clients and prospects? You know tough love, asking tough questions, the...
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Yesterday I had the honor of being the emcee for a five chamber networking event called Networking Magic. The premise was a unique twist on a common theme: Each table had six members and at the sound...
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With more than 2200 companies possibly engaged in backdating, scores of shareholder derivative suits are in the making. The scandal has resulted in high executive churn, with more than 30 senior...
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Filed in archive by Deborah Brown on January 10, 2007
Steve Rucinski has tagged me in the latest craze: Blogging Chain Letters. I must confess to a giddy feeling, however, when I was tagged, because it means that "you like me, you really really like...
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Did you know there is a business model built around the buying and selling of internet domain names? Here is an excerpt from a leader in the space Afternic: The domain industry is understandably...
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You know the old saying "nice guys finish last" or how about "the good die young." Have sayings like that prompted us to "get what we have coming to us" or climb over...
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I don't know how you feel about receiving a load of forwarded emails with jokes from friends, but it is my least favorite piece of electronic communication. The worst kind are the spiritual...
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Gartner Group believes that 50 per cent of all business-to-client communication in 2007 will take place on IM. Is that true in your business? IM offers genuine business benefits such as improved...
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Filed in archive Sales
by Steve Rucinski on January 06, 2007
Big purchases or small, TRUST is a key element to two individuals or two enterprises completing a sale. Online, trust building is critical and comes from many elements in the customer experience with...
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