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Local Search Visibility: Get Customers in Your Area

Local search marketing makes you visible to customers looking for goods and services in the community.

Smart Working Tool Review – Outright Accounting Software

IN THE INTEREST OF FULL DISCLOSURE – Outright and Network Solutions partnered up this year for the Unintentional Entrepreneur series of events and have a blog of the same name (which focuses on those who have recently started a business). However this product review is independent and from the perspective of a guy with an [...]

HOAs: From Social Shaming to Collaboration for Behavior Modification?

Last week, I had to do two things: Trim my hedges, and paint my balcony railing. And when I say “had to,” I mean “was compelled to,” after getting a nastygram from my homeowners’ association (HOA).
I’m not trying to shirk my responsibility — I was very definitely in violation, and since I can be kind [...]

15 Steps to Writing a Winning Marketing Plan – Grow Smart Business e-Book

Much focus when starting a business is about putting together a great business plan. We have covered that and you can click here to download the e-book on that type of plan. However, most don’t talk about a critical component of every business – marketing.
The marketing plan is critical and I would almost do this [...]

15 Steps to Writing a Winning Business Plan – Grow Smart Business e-Book

Many of you who follow this blog are small business owners and you have either wrote your first business plan or about to start on the journey. For some it might seem like an easy task but I will bet that it seems easier to summit Mt. Ranier that finish your business plan. It is [...]

Guest Post: The Following Post is NOT brought to you by the FTC – New FTC Blogging Guidelines

This is a guest post written by Michelle Cohen, Partner with Thompson Hine. She is a CIPP, Certified Information Privacy Professional (by the International Association of Privacy Professionals) and you can read her bio here. She has put together a solid overview of the new FTC blogging guidelines.
On October 5, 2009, the Federal Trade Commission [...]

Smart Working Tool Review – TimeBridge

Last year I came across the product, TimeBridge from the company of the same name in a review by Web Worker Daily. I didn’t really think much about using the product. Then about six months ago TimeBridge integrated phone conferencing and then last month they added a business paid package withFreeConference.com and desktop sharing as well [...]

Smart Working: Slideshare Launches AdShare and LeadShare

Have you ever had the opportunity to use Slideshare? It is a really great tool to put your presentations online. Many use the tool to promote their work but it is a great way to make this kind of content embeddable for readers. You can set your creative common rights and make it downloadable. Previously, [...]

Smart Working: Avoid Burnout and Get Your Work-Life Balance Back

I will take a guess that if you are reader of this blog you probably have your own business full time or a side business that is growing to be full time. Taking the leap and being a full time entrepreneur is a bit jarring on the somewhat normal schedule you might have or have [...]

#GrowSmartBiz : Watch the LiveStream of the Small Business Summit Sept 29th

The GrowSmartBiz conference is taking place on Tuesday 29th September at the Renaissance Hotel Washington DC and the tickets are selling fast.
The GrowSmartBiz conference s a premier one-day event featuring renowned small business leaders and well-known industry experts, including keynote speaker Chris Anderson and Sen. Mark Warner.

We also have some great news for folks who are [...]