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REMINDER: Grow Smart Biz Conference on September 29 with Senator Mark Warner and author of “Free”, Chris Anderson

If you are a casual reader to this blog you have probably heard that on September 29, in Washington, DC, Network Solutions is hosting the Grow Smart Biz Conference.
We have some great speakers with Keynotes by Chris Anderson and Virginia Senator Mark R. Warner for the GrowSmartBiz Conference.
Senator Mark Warner of Virginia

Senator Warner was elected [...]

All I Need to Know About Social Media I Learned from Jason Alba

Robin Ferrier is the Communications Manager for Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County. As the Communications Manager, she oversees media relations, community outreach, marketing, publications, and special events, and manages the Campus’ web presence, including the web site and its presence in the social media realm. Robin also engages in limited legislative affairs activities and works [...]

GrowSmartBiz: Catherine Read on Success Stories of Small Business

Its a great feeling when one of your customers invites you to their office and that is how I landed up at http://www.townandcountrymovers.com/ for a open house that they held at their offices in Gaithersburg a few days ago. It was a networking event and among the people I met was Catherine Read who helps [...]

Book Shame, Information Hoarding, and Aspirational PDFs

Way back in January, I wrote about how small businesses (and people, too, of course), can share their expertise through social linksharing — that is, instead of bookmarking things in your browser where only you can get to them, publishing them to social linksharing / social bookmarking sites (or any other sites that can be [...]

#GrowSmartBiz : Pat Troy Using Technology to work smartly

Small Business Conferences are about getting actionable ideas and implementing them in your business and Pat Troy signed up for this very reason to the GrowSmartBiz conference on Sept 29th.  Pat Troy , CAE and MCA is the Executive Director of nextwavegroup.com and very busy person. NextWave Group among other things is a Association Management company. [...]

Smart Working – Building a Stellar Online Community

Building the Small Business community here at Network Solutions is something we work hard on every day. We use tools like this blog and our other blogs (Grow Smart Business, Women Grow Business) to connect with various parts of our community. We also use tools like Twitter and good old fashioned email to reach out [...]

Simple things to do to protect your domain name registration

I cringe when I get an email that one of my bills was not paid because I did not update my credit card info and I get a finance charge on top of it. At the same time I have seen cries for help from folks who  discover too late that the domain they registered [...]

Smart Working-Great Sites for Tech Questions and Tech Tutorials

We all wish we had enough time in the day to learn how to get the most out of the technology we buy and use every day. However, most of the time is that we do the best we can and many things we learn the hard way during a project or toward the end [...]

Smart Working – Small Business Value of Using Twitter

These days everyone is “all-a-Twitter”. It is on the tip of everyone’s tongue’s. Every mainstream media outlet and celebrity has a Twitter profile and revels in the real time aspect and direct contact they can have with viewers and fans. One of the coolest things on Twitter is the use of hashtag symbol (#) to [...]

How to Effectively Market Your Small Business in a Downturn Economy?

As part of the GrowSmartBusiness.com activities that include the  Small Business Summit on Sept 30th in DC – Network Solutions hosted a #GrowSmartBiz webinar on August 26th on the topic “How to Effectively Market Your Small Business in a Downturn Economy?”
The GrowSmart Biz conference details are at http://tinyurl.com/gsbiz and use code GSB999 to get a [...]