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55% of Small Businesses that Blog have increased traffic

I was perusing my blog feed and Hubspot’s Inbound Marketing feed always has interesting submittals. One in this list of articles really caught my attention:
55% of small businesses that blog have increased traffic
For many in the social media world, this is a “no duh”, but for small business owner thinking about blogging, this is some [...]

Networking for Law Firms 102

Guest post from Gayle Weiswasser, VP TMG Strategies with a event recap of the Networking for Law Firms 102
Last month,Dallas LawrenceVice President of Digital Media at Levick Strategic Communications and I (Gayle Weiswasser, Vice President, TMG Strategies ) spoke on a panel for lawyers sponsored by Grow Smart Business.
Our planned topic that morning: [...]

Event Reviews: DC Google Meetup and TechCocktail DC 6

Here’s a followup to my entry about DC-area late-summer social media meetups; this week, I went to two of the events from the list.
The first was the First Official DC Google Meetup, at the swank Lima Restaurant and Lounge in DC. (So swank, in fact, that a would-be attendee posted to the Meetup event page [...]

Social Gaming as Social Grooming: Mafia Wars and my High School Reunion

Two independent events have sort of collided for me on Facebook, resulting in something that’s sort of interesting, sort of annoying, and sort of disturbing.
The first event is that I started playing Mafia Wars this month (my excuse that I’m merely doing it to evaluate online gaming mechanics and explore ways to use them to [...]

Roy Dunbar in Tie DC’s CEO’s Panel-Managing in Troubled Times – Real World CEO Perspectives Sept 24th

Roy Dunbar Chairman & CEO Network Solutions is speaking at TiE DC event “Managing in Troubled Times – Real World CEO Perspectives”  on Sept 24th. Here are the details of the event from TiE:
TiE DC and American University’s Kogod School of Business are pleased to host, Managing in Troubled Times – Real World CEO Perspectives, [...]

Celebrating Twitterville with Network Solutions.

One of the best books that I bought was Naked Conversations and it was written by technology evangelist Robert Scoble and Shel Israel. I was very honored to be a part of the latter’s new book and launch party last Sunday. As part of the celebration, Network Solutions was a sponsor and helped create a [...]

Wanna learn more about NSCommerce? Check out this Practical eCommerce podcast with Juila Dalton, Senior Product Manager

Recently, Julia Dalton, Senior Product Manager was interviewed by Practical eCommerce to discuss the NSCommerce offering.
From their web site:
“There was a time, in the 1990s, when the only place to buy a domain name was at Network Solutions. That storied company has since had its up and downs, but no one disputes the pioneering nature [...]

Login info for Webinar : How to Effectively Market Your Small Business in a Downturn Economy?

How to Effectively Market Your Small Business in a Downturn Economy?
Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (ET)
How to Join the Webinar:
(This is a WebEx event)

Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada): 866-469-3239
Meeting Number: 805 480 079
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To join the online meeting (Now from iPhones too!)
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1. Go to https://networksolutions.webex.com/networksolutions/j.php?ED=108977752&UID=94451707
2. [...]

Gnomedex 9-Day 1: A Conference Unlike Any Others I’ve Been To Before.

Last week I was off to Seattle for yet another conference. Having attended a few over the past year, I had my expectations that this one wouldn’t be any different – you sit there and learn more about how these presenters talk about how social media is the greatest thing since sliced bread and talk [...]

Meet the GrowSmartBiz Conference Panelists that Will Discuss Marketing & Innovation

Network Solutions® is pleased to announce Steve King of Emergent Research and SmallBizLabs, Ramon Ray of SmallBizTechnology, Bob London of London, Ink, Marissa Levin of Information Experts and John Arnold, Constant Contact as the panelists for the GrowSmartBiz Conference topic session: Driving Small Business Performance with Marketing & Innovation.
These panelists will share their marketing tips, [...]