My Favorite Bloggers
As someone who consumes most of her daily doses of new information through the blogosphere (as opposed to traditional media), there are different bloggers I read for different reasons. As I’ve been...
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Using Tech to Make More Businesses Non-Tech
I grew up in a family-owned business. I remember, back in the early 1980’s, when my mother (the bookkeeper) got her first computer for the business: it was a Data General and it was bigger than our...
View ArticleLies, Damn Lies and SEO
One of the reasons that I have always loved being in the web business is because things constantly change. When I first got online in 1993, we used bulletin board systems and monochrome monitors....
View ArticleThrough the Entrepreneurial Looking Glass
In a recent blog post, author Scott Ginsberg recently asked Have You Executed These Ten Essentials of Entrepreneurial Excellence? He then listed off the ten things he highlights as essential for...
View ArticleThe Entrepreneurial Economy
As my year-end consumption of ‘top ten lists‘ continues, I came across one on Chicago Now called “The Top 10 Small Business Trends of the Decade” by Barry Moltz. In the list he mentions several things...
View ArticleFree Tools for Entrepreneurs – WordPress
The single biggest struggles I encounter with entrepreneurs trying to build a business is marketing. Some small business owners don’t think about it; some don’t understand it; some don’t like it; some...
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Grumble, Bumble, Facebook Trouble
I was reading the results of a social media study on Entrepreneur.com, and it actually made me a little snarky. In Health Insurance, a 401(k) and…Facebook?, author Justin Petruccelli discusses a new...
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Kill Crappy Customer Service
Many people don’t think about it specifically, but know it intuitively: if you want good customer service, skip the big guys and go to a small company. In Small Business’ Competitive Advantage, I...
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Why Winning the “SEO Game” is About Your Content
As an ebusiness strategist one of the things I spend a great deal of time discussing with entrepreneurs is SEO. As I’ve written here before, my first goal in any SEO discussion with someone is to help...
View ArticleHooray the Freelance Economy
Scott Shane‘s recent article on Business Week is called, “Beware the Freelance Economy.” In it, he posits that cheering for the increased number of new businesses is premature, since so many of them...
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