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10 Cool Places To Write A Blog Post

Where do you write your blog posts? If you write them sitting at the same desk where you manage your email or write your "to do" list, you may not be properly inspired. And you may not inspire your audience. Here are 10 cool places to write your next post.

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Tell Your Story: 5 Elements Of A Great Home Page

The Internet has become very competitive.  It used to be that merely having a presence on the Web was acceptable for small businesses – to beat the notion of a visitor saying “I’m not calling them, they don’t even have a website!”  Now, there are several companies that do what yours does – and they are all on the web.  So what are web site visitors looking for now?

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4 Great Marketing Tools To Help Grow Your Business

No matter the size of your business, you need to have a plan to grow. Since business growth needs to be enabled, here are 4 tools that I use personally or with clients to improve productivity and develop new business.  These will help you as well.

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5 Marketing Resources for Small Business Owners

Do you know what the most exciting part about being a small business owner is? The combined thrill and challenge of being in control of your own destiny! And with technology tools and solutions being released at a break-neck pace, small business owners find themselves with marketing resources available like never before, all at our disposal to help us succeed in promoting our businesses.

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How To Wake People Up With Your Marketing Communications

What is your strategy for marketing communications? Specifically how do you sound to your audience and how does it fit with your brand personality? Read below for a fun example of how one company does it and some guidelines on your efforts to be creative.

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5 Tips That Will Make You Successful With Stationery

In today's tech-driven world, businesses rely heavily on social media platforms and email as a way to keep in touch with clients. While these are great tools that can help you contact customers quickly, there's a certain intimacy that's lost when delivering messages through the digital medium.

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How To Renew Client Relationships In January

Everyone gets distracted over a holiday. And December is the worst holiday month due to all the holiday parties, year-end close, and the numerous days off. So how do you renew client relationships in January and remind them why they worked with you in the prior year?

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Best of 2012: Marketing, Branding And Business Strategy

Even a younger blog can have a "best of" for the year. And while this is only post #47, there were plenty choose from this year. I had a blast writing them and enjoyed your reactions here, on Facebook and on Twitter. Here are the most read posts for the year.

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Business Momentum: Is Your Snowball Getting Bigger?

We all know the idea behind a rolling snowball. Unlike a rolling stone that gathers no moss, snowballs gather more snow. And by so doing, get bigger. It's time to start thinking about your business as a snowball. It's a short and simple thought for the holidays.

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MBA-Earning Employees: 5 Ways Companies Can Embrace Them

I hear about it from employed MBA students all the time. An uncertainty about how to handle the conversation with a boss or company about their MBA quest. The truth is that companies should embrace their MBA-earning employees. Here's why:

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