Social Media
How Small Business Can Use Facebook, Twitter, and More
Music Marketing Company Terrorbird Media and New Artists See SXSW Opportunity
For emerging bands and musicians, a performance in Austin during South By Southwest (SXSW) can be a once in a lifetime opportunity to grab the attention of hotshot record executives. …
How Important Is Word of Mouth To Your Business… and How Do You Get It?
The number one reason people pick one product over another — or even pick up a product in the first place — is due to recommendations from people they know. …
50 Essential iPad Apps for Small Business
UPDATE: Get our all-new, refreshed list of 50 Essential Small Business iPad Apps for 2012! Apple’s iPad is quickly becoming the must-have tool for businesspeople who want to run their …
It’s a Tasty Road to Success for Mobile Restaurants
The childhood pastime of following the ice cream truck on a hot summer day has been replaced with following your favorite food truck on Twitter. And grabbing food from a restaurant on …
5 Tips To Better Measure Your Online Marketing ROI
Investors typically use a fairly uncomplicated criterion to evaluate their chosen investments. If, for example, an investment increases in value over time, it was sound. If, on the other hand, …
The 10 Ways That Social Media Marketing Is Like Dating
No one ever said dating was easy. Likewise, no one ever said using social media to grow your business was easy, either. And as they say, if dating (and social …
How to Be Like Zappos in 3 Easy Steps
There was a time, not so long ago, when online shoppers would think of shoes, they would think of Zappos. Today, when online shoppers think of amazing customer service, they …
Eco Entrepreneur Makes Green Through Etsy
Since Etsy.com’s launch in 2005, the online marketplace has been helping connect crafters and indie entrepreneurs with like-minded consumers. The site also maintains an active Twitter presence (@Etsy). While Etsy …
Using Twitter for Small Business: 6 Questions with TweetSmarter
What can you do for your business in 140 characters or less? Plenty, if you ask Dave Larson. He and his wife Sarah are the brains behind TweetSmarter, a nonstop …
Author Liz Lynch On How To Build An Effective Online Networking Strategy
For the small business owner, exchanging business cards and napkins with phone numbers scribbled on them has always played a vital role in obtaining new clients and securing the future …
7 Steps to Leverage Social Media for Your Small Business
Once thought of as a frivolous waste of time with little meaningful relevance to the modern business world, social media is now firmly entrenched as one of the most powerful …
10 Free Tools For Marketing Your Business Online
There are hundreds of free tools that you can use to market your business online, but the trick can be figuring out where to start and which tools to use …
Google Giving Small Businesses a Bigger Edge with Social Search [VIDEO]
Internet search giant Google has unveiled yet another significant development in the company’s ongoing effort to fuse its widely used services with established social networking platforms. As a result, Google’s …
How to Develop a Mobile Strategy for Your Small Business
Mobile marketing is not only changing the way major companies target consumers, it’s also making it easier and more affordable for small businesses to compete against much larger brands across …
What Your Business Needs to Know About the New Facebook Pages
Think you’ve learned everything there is to know about Facebook Pages? You may need a refresher course: Facebook has just unveiled significant updates that impact how your business will appear …
