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Just Because You Give It Away…

The campaign was clear, very honorable in its intentions, and was giving something away a gift thanks. And this wasn’t just a cheap give away item. It had value both financially and use. The campaign had all the makings of a successful campaign if the appropriate effort was put into it, but what happened?

Doing Volunteer Work Benefits Small Businesses

Performing community service can be a great way to enhance your business profile, establish important professional relationships, and gain new customers while at the same time strengthening your community.

LinkTogether: FREE Two Month PRO Account So You Can Add Cash Money to the Attention Economy

I got a ping from Product Marketing Manager Bonnie Williams, asking me to check out Network Solutions’ new service, LinkTogether. It’s a cool concept — a service, built around a community, where Web designers and developers can show off their wares — including graphic assets, stock photos, code snippets, and Web templates — and maybe [...]

Is Seesmic Desktop Tweetdeck in sheep’s clothing?

Unleashed on Tuesday, the latest product launch by video-blogging site Seesmic included a new desktop application to make it easier for people to update & communicate with their friends and community on Twitter. Introducing Seesmic Desktop, this new software has all the trimmings of another major Twitter application powerhouse, Tweetdeck. There are many other Twitter [...]

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 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 [...]

Why do some management teams win and others just suck? - Part 9 of the 2009 Business Plan Series

There is a well known investing slogan, “Fund an A-Grade team with a B-Grade idea over a B-Grade Team with an A-Grade idea”. Did you get that tongue twister?
I am not talking pedigree or a minimum number of years of experience but it is the results that make the team. You want people that can [...]

What Was the First Domain You Owned?

I was just doing a WHOIS lookup on my primary personal domain (joelogon.com, and no, I’m not trying to self-promote myself — at least, not any more than usual) to double-check the expiration date (I’ve got a few months), when I saw that my domain will turn 11 years old this spring.
Eleven years old. My [...]

Scheduled Maintenance : Jan 24th 2009

There will be  scheduled maintenance starting 10 p.m EST  Jan 24th 2008. During that time you may not be able to access the Network Solutions site or login to your account. The maintenance window is usually around 4 hours. Sorry for any inconvenience in advance.
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Tactical Transparency’s book review series Ch. 16: Overcoming Objections

Transcending the ‘absolutely not!’ syndrome when starting new transparent operations and social media
Tactical Transparency’s Ch. 16: Yeah, but…Overcoming Objections

Have your legal advisors ever said:
Launch a blog?!…and start conversations we can’t control?! NO WAY?!
Or has your product development team ever screamed:
What if employees inadvertently reveal too much and give our competition an edge? NO [...]