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Reminder: 4/30 Webinar: Rock Star Entrepreneurs and Your Business

If you haven’t heard already we have a webcast at 2pm EST on Mogulus at http://www.mogulus.com/networksolutions
Here are the details:

Some talented business thinkers, leaders, movers-and-shakers are headed to the Internet near you!
Ideas will soar at this event (and you’re invited).
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Small business success, brainstorms, and you
At the end of this month, Grow [...]

Grow Smart Business Webinar Interview with Kelly Muccio, Founder of Lost Boys

As part of our panelist interviews for the GrowSmartBusiness Webinar, we interviewed Kelly Muccio, Founder of Lost Boys, a fashionable clothing store in Georgetown. Kelly was recently featured featured in the Wall Street Journal, an indicator that her small business is thriving. Here she sounds off on some of the small biz challenges revealed in the [...]

Social Media and Swine Flu: Everybody #Panic!

[Finally, a chance to talk about something that's spreading virally, without it being a lame cliched metaphor.]
We haven’t hit full-blown pandemic panic yet, regarding the swine flu that’s radiating outward from Mexico, but heck, it’s still early. Also, it is dovetailing nicely with the long-awaited Twitter backlash, so we’re seeing some tut-tutting about how Twitter, [...]

Grow Smart Business Webinar Interview with Tom Heath of The Washington Post

Thomas Heath covers small businesses for The Washington Post. He is also a panelist on next week’s GrowSmartBusiness Webinar (next Thursday, April 30 at 2pm ET). We’re interviewing all panelists for their insights on the small business challenges revealed in the Small Business Success Index. You can read Tom’s interview below, follow him on Twitter [...]

Grow Smart Business Webinar Interview with Kristina Bouweiri, CEO of Reston Limo

Kristina Bouweiri, CEO of Reston Limo, is another panelist for Thursday’s GrowSmartBusiness Webinar. She has helped Reston Limo become the largest limousine/shuttle business in Washington, DC and one of the Top 10 largest shuttle bus fleets in the nation. As part of our interview series with the webinar panelists, Kristina answers some questions about marketing [...]

Can Communities of First-Run Fans Save Appointment Television?

[This one started as a "strictly-speaking, not about social media" entry, but I think I figured out a way to tie it back.]
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about television. Nothing, I’m sure, that hasn’t already been done to death (say, by the TV/pop culture eggheads up at Syracuse), but outside of rare occasions, I [...]

Turning to the Internet for success during a recession – Part 3 – Online Advertising

As with all typical marketing programs, companies feel that they must advertise in every medium in order to get the word out about their product. With the Internet, this is all done through online advertising. What exactly is online advertising? Well you have your typical Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), and banner [...]

Grow Smart Business Webinar Interview with Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends

Anita Campbell, Editor of Small Business Trends will be one of five panelists on the GrowSmartBusiness Webinar (next Thursday, April 30 at 2pm ET). Her well-rounded expertise will shed light on two of the biggest challenges for small businesses –marketing and finance – as revealed in the Small Business Success Index. We asked Anita to [...]

Get Your Hand Off Your Wallet And Your Head Out Of Your…

Let me be very honest, starting a business costs money.  Starting a successful business…still costs money.  Getting the marketing pieces and materials you’ll need to do the bare minimum to promote your business effectively…will cost money.
Does spending a lot of money guarantee you are going to be successful?  No, but spending it smartly does help.  [...]

Getting Started on Twitter in Plain English

By now you have probably heard of Twitter. If you watch CNN, Oprah or know of Aston Kutcher, you have heard of Twitter. Recently, Aston Kutcher and CNN had a race to reach a million followers (more on what that means later) with Ashton winning and appearing on Oprah. Because of recent events like the [...]