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Thinking Global - Catch Our Free Webinar

by Jerry Bowles on 05/16/2008 14:01   1 comment , 28 views
Categories: Marketing Ideas
Tags: webinars, small business

For any small or medium-size enterprise, going global can lead not only to new markets but also a tangled web of business issues.  Technology is essential, but it's just the price of admission to global markets -- businesses may also be faced with multiple tax jurisdictions, language barriers, and the difficulty of overseeing operations from a distance.

To help companies make the transition, MyVenturepad is sponsoring a free webinar on We...

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Generation X and Small Business

by Steve King on 05/16/2008 03:40   0 comments , 15 views
Tammy Erickson's blog Across the Ages has a post on generation X being unhappy with corporate life. The post lists 10 reasons why Gen X is unhappy. Not surprisingly, Gen Xers are telling Erickson that they plan to move to...
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David Zinger with Zane Safrit

by David Zinger on 05/16/2008 07:21   0 comments , 14 views
Click here to listen a Blog Talk Radio interview I had with Zane Safrit on employee engagement:   David Zinger, founder of the Employee Engagement community on Ning (http://employeeengagement.ning.com) will talk with me today about employee engagement and its role in corporate success and its foundation for creating customer evangelists and their word-of-mouth advertising for your company.
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Is The Riskiness of Writing A Reason to Avoid It?

by James Maule on 05/16/2008 06:59   0 comments , 11 views
Categories: Your Tax Advisor
In Why I Don't Write, Geoffrey Rapp explores the decision by some law professors to stay away from writing and to focus on the teaching and service components of the three principal components of law faculty hiring and tenure decision making. Geoffrey wrote his blog piece partly in response to the Why I Write blog posting that Paul Horwitz shared a few years ago.

Geoffrey notes that law faculty write all sorts of things, though he doesn't mention...
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Was Boom a Bust?

by Jeff Cornwall on 05/16/2008 06:12   0 comments , 12 views
Thomas Frank of the Wall Street Journal offered a rather harsh analysis of the economic boom that was the past two decades. It is, in other words, a political disaster, with tax cuts, trade agreements, deregulatory measures, and enforcement decisions...
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Collective Intelligence in the Age of Conversation

by Mario Vellandi on 05/16/2008 02:55   0 comments , 24 views
One year ago, I wrote an article for a nonprofit multi-author book project called “The Age of Conversation“. At the time, social media in the form of online blogs and other interactive/collaborative content was a very hot topic in sociology, journalism, and business circles among others.   While I saw the obvious benefit for social media [...]
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Shareholder Value, What You Didn’t Know

by Jeff Nolan on 05/15/2008 20:01   0 comments , 22 views
Categories: Managing Technology, Managing Money, Startups

“But Paulson’s move adds to Icahn’s support among Yahoo shareholders, since hedge funds tend to pursue returns more aggressively than other institutional shareholders and are more likely to vocally press for strategic moves that could boost stock values.”

Where does one even begin to parse this statement buried in the Reuters piece about Carl [...]

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Some rebates sent to wrong accounts

by Kay Bell on 05/15/2008 15:50   0 comments , 9 views
Categories: Your Tax Advisor
This is definitely not what any of us wanted to hear, but Newsday reports that some economic stimulus checks are showing up in the wrong bank accounts. Although the direct deposit of most of the rebates seem to be going into the appropriate accounts, the Long Island, N.Y., tabloid says some are winding up in...
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Old law helping IRS find new foreign money

by Kay Bell on 05/15/2008 12:46   0 comments , 10 views
Categories: Your Tax Advisor
A law enacted in 1970 to help find laundered drug money is now getting a renewed enforcement push from the IRS as it looks for taxable cash stashed in other countries. According to a story in today's New York Times, as the IRS "intensifies its efforts to root out offshore tax evasion, [the agency] is...
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It's A Viral World: Is Your Learning Contagious?

by Steve Roesler on 05/15/2008 12:26   0 comments , 15 views
Dr. Ellen Weber at Brain Based Business recently asked: "Are you aware that the human brain comes equipped with its own plasticity … to be changed and grown by the active process of learning together daily? What new discovery will...
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Dallas’ Mark Cuban to join Yahoo’s Board!

by Alexander Muse on 05/15/2008 11:07   0 comments , 16 views
If Carl Icahn has his way, Mark will be in the cat bird’s seat at his old company. From Carl’s letter: “During the past week, a number of shareholders have asked me to lead a proxy fight to attempt to remove the current board and to establish a new board which would attempt to negotiate [...]
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The 12 Hottest Trends in Internet Marketing

by Andy Beal on 05/15/2008 10:59   0 comments , 17 views
Categories: Marketing Ideas
In internet marketing circles, there are a handful of names that pretty much everyone should recognize; Danny Sullivan, Dr. Ralph Wilson, and Larry Chase are among them. What? You’ve never heard of Larry Chase? That might be understandable, if you only ever get your marketing insight via blogs–Larry Chase doesn’t have a blog. But, if you’re open [...]
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The 5 Best Social Media Sites for Small Businesses

by Tom Pick on 05/12/2008 11:32   0 comments , 62 views
Categories: Marketing Ideas

Note: the following is a guest post from expert researcher and freelance writer Heather Johnson on how businesses can effectively use social media as a component of PR efforts, and efficiently focus their efforts on the most productive sites.

Social media sites, no longer relegated to just teens and college students, are now the most cost-effective way for a company to drum up international attention. In fact, social networking serves as a great ...
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SEO - Why a Small Business Needs a Blog

by Tom Pick on 05/12/2008 11:32   1 comment , 102 views
Categories: Marketing Ideas

The most difficult websites to search optimize are those of small or new companies, in a market with larger and more established players, focused on a highly competitive set of keywords. No matter how well the on-site optimization is done, it is tough to compete with the amount of content and external links that the established players have built up over time.

However, a blog can be a valuable tool in helping smaller, newer players improve their ...
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Blogger of the Week - Skip Reardon

by Jerry Bowles on 05/13/2008 10:29   0 comments , 47 views
Categories: Marketing Ideas
Tags: blogging, blogger of the week
This week's Blogger of the Week on MVP is Skip Reardon, who has been a senior software executive for nearly 30 years--the past three years as Director of Public Relations and Branding for Six Disciplines Corp., developer of the first complete strategy execution program for small and midsized businesses.  Before that he was responsible for industry analyst relations with a little company called  Microsoft.  When it comes to soc...
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Bunching medical expenses

by Kay Bell on 05/14/2008 16:58   0 comments , 27 views
Categories: Your Tax Advisor
I had a doctor's appointment today. Nothing wrong; just a routine checkup and blood tests, which I'm sure will tell me that, no, I'm not anemic. I'm just looking for any excuse to sit around in a lounge chair in my newly refurbished backyard. And as I was driving to the doctor's office, I serendipitously...
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Be More than an Entrepreneur

by Jeff Cornwall on 05/11/2008 07:28   0 comments , 33 views
In my Tennessean column this week I write about the importance of defining our lives by more than what we do for a living. We seem to create folk heroes out of entrepreneurs who expend Herculean efforts to achieve success...
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