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Ruminations on “Best Fits for Social Media in the Sales Cycle”

Many of you out there are looking for ways to maximize your social media efforts to gain customers and I share your experiences of striving to correlate every investment to direct return that is more than what I put in. But when it comes to social media, it is not as straightforward as we wish [...]

One Year and 500 Posts – The Best of the Best and the Future is Looking Bright

For all of our readers out there, we are marking a milestone of our 500th post here at Solutions Are Power and it has been an awesome 16 months of growing, learning and listening. We hope we have provided you valuable and timely information along with some humor thrown in for good measure. We plan [...]

How Your Small Business Can Succeed Despite the Economic Downturn

Having been a small business owner in the past, you quickly realize that you are affected by the economic climate quicker than larger companies. This can have a shock on the economic system since small business make up the great majority of businesses in the United States. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration Office [...]

How does your small business rate against your peers?

Small businesses face many challenges regardless of the economic climate, but how can you know if you rate well against your peers?
Recently, we launched a new member of the Network Solutions community called Grow Smart Business. The primary component of the site is the Small Business Success Index. This Small Business Index is a partnership [...]

Thoughts on Coworking: Beehive Baltimore CoWorking Space Officially Opens

You might be aware that I am huge supporter of the Coworking concept and on Friday I had an opportunity to be a coworker for the day and hang my hat at the newest and from what I can research, the only Coworking space in Baltimore called Beehive Baltimore.
It is based at the Emerging Technology [...]

Thoughts on Coworking: What is it and is it for you?

Co-working or Coworking?

A word with a hypen or not one, coworking is something that conjures up thoughts of working together in an idealistic environment where we can collaborate on projects and hire those talented individuals around us to grow each other’s respective businesses.
The reality is that it is an inventive business model to help startups [...]

Upcoming Event and Coverage: Twin Tech III in DC on January 22nd, 2009

We have covered many events in the past but there is one event here in the DC area that seems to be a gravity well for all things tech. I am talking about the Twin Tech event that has already been held twice and we cover the first one and the second one to much [...]

Solutions Out Loud Podcast Episode #5 – “The Business Tips and Tweetups” Episode

Available now for your listening pleasure is Episode #5 of Solutions Out Loud, the Network Solutions podcast that covers news, business trends, tips for small businesses and anything else that is relevant to you our faithful listeners.
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In this episode we talk about the latest tweet up [...]

5 Reasons Web Developers Have a Great Community in LinkTogether

If you’re a web designer or developer you are a creative person. You want to spend your time doing what you love! Many of you are self-employed & doing contract work and along with that comes the need for the paperwork. As a small business owner it’s a part of life.
Network Solutions® is unveiling our [...]

Writing a Killer Marketing Plan isn’t hard. Unless you make it that way.

For any small business, customers are your lifeblood to profitability. You have to be able to win them over and convince them that you are the company they should work with over every one else. One primary way to frame your approach to marketing along with identifying the right campaigns that target who you want [...]