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Increasing Your Small Business Productivity with SharePoint Hosting Services from Network Solutions

Let’s face it – in most small businesses a few employees often perform many tasks with a few shared resources to get the job done.  Because of busy schedules, employees are rarely in the office at the same time.  But, they still need the ability to access and share critical documents.
Network Solutions® listened to customers and has [...]

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 [...]

GrowSmartBiz Conference Recap: Integrating Traditional Marketing with Social Media

The last panel of the day at the GrowSmartBiz conference, panelists discussed how they could integrate traditional marketing with social media. Moderated by Jill Foster, the panelists included:
- Terri Holley (Creative Marketing Solutions)
- Brent Leary (CRM Essentials)
- Danilo Bogdanovic (Loudoun Scene)
- Joanna Pineda (Matrix Group International)
This is the first time ever that the amount of [...]

GrowSmartBiz Conference Recap: Raising Capital with Effective Finance Strategies

Panelists:
- Jeremy Brown (RapidAdvance)
- Edward Tuvin (Capital Bank)
- Denise O’Berry (The Small Business Edge Corp)
- Shannon Nash (Nash Management)
Where does small business get financing?
According to Jeremy Brown,  the Wall Street Journal said that in 2004, 46% of small business owners used credit cards to finance their business. He suggests that there isn’t a one best [...]

GrowSmartBiz Conference Recap: Driving Small Business Performance with Marketing & Innovation.

The first panel of the 2009 GrowSmartBiz Conference addressed how small businesses could increase their productivity and performance through sound marketing and innovation. The panelists included folks like:
- John Arnold (Contant Contact)
- Marissa Levin (Information Experts)
- Ramon Ray (SmallBizTechnology)
- Bob London (London, Ink)
What are some important steps needed for a brand? Some small businesses think [...]

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 [...]

Nine Reasons to Attend the GrowSmartBiz Conference on Sept. 29, 2009

Nine reasons to sign up TODAY for the GrowSmartBiz Conference in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 29! (http://tinyurl.com/gsbiz)

Get an opportunity to network with small business owners and entrepreneurs – learn and grow your business at the same time!
Gain insight – including tips and strategies – from more than 20 of the nation’s top small business experts.
See [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Small Business Success Stories Wanted! Winners Attend GrowSmartBiz Conference for FREE!

Every small business owner has a story, and we want to hear yours! As a small business owner, you put your heart and soul into your work, but that effort often goes largely unnoticed. This is your chance to tell everyone about your company and what you have done to make it a success.
Tell us [...]