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- Woopra web analytics: Mom, I take it all back
- links for 2008-04-30
- 5 ways to entice customers to spend their tax rebate check at your small business
- links for 2008-04-29
- What’s troubling your business?
- links for 2008-04-25
- Scoble, Hawk, Ansel, Sadie & Yosemite: The power of social media
- links for 2008-04-22
- Hiring staff to help with marketing? Start them off with these business books.
- links for 2008-04-21
- Marketing winners and losers: Pope Benedict XIV’s visit to the U.S.
- How have fuel prices changed your customers’ behavior?
- TED: Music, technology, expression, engineering & Cerebral Palsy
- links for 2008-04-17
- Locals grumble about real estate websites too
- Giving away free stuff
- Your blog can show your clients “How to”
- The Pope and Seth Godin
- Why don’t real estate agents take their websites seriously?
- links for 2008-04-15
- The meaning of the word: “Can’t”
- Best Seat in the House shows why you should be blogging
- MyStarbucksIdea.com - A gift to every independent coffee shop and cafe owner
- links for 2008-04-13
- Twitter for business: Does it make sense, or is it just another time vampire?
- How to react to the news in your marketing
- links for 2008-04-11
- Saving lives with Twitter
- links for 2008-04-09
- 86 percent have no plan. Are you wandering in the desert with them?
- Is your business targeting this recession-proof market?
- Fundamental excuses for Memphis and your business
- links for 2008-04-08
- Get a new plumber: Yahoo Pipes
- David Apple wastes no time, passes Goliath Wal-Mart in music sales
- links for 2008-04-04
- 25% of 2008 is gone. Where do you stand?
- Amazon responds to print on demand (POD) changes
- 8 Secrets to Success
- Microsoft’s “apology” to XBox owner, a good lesson
- Quality: As your small business grows, it’s more critical
- Higher prices bring pleasure to buyers, Cal Tech study shows
- Does your small business send personal emails?
- Green is about saving money - and your business
- Why should a small business sell gift cards?
- links for 2008-02-28
- Political Marketing: Are Obama, Clinton and McCain asking to be blacklisted?
- How to measure advertising response in any media
- Would one “minor glitch” bring down your company?
- links for 2008-02-27
- After The Coding: 12 things I wish I had known before I started my software company
- Wedding and a funeral create a customer service mashup
- links for 2008-02-22
- Marketing opportunities: As perishable as lettuce.
- links for 2008-02-20
- All women think alike, right?
- Goals, Marketing and the Catholic Store
- If Michael Jordan is ok with failing, isn’t it ok for you?
- One way to tell if your ads need a makeover
- Speeding up your recovery from future “days from hell”
- Recovering from “the day from hell”, aka Time Management
- Outback, aka OSI Restaurant Partners, takes their hand back out of servers’ pockets
- links for 2008-02-08
- Do your customers’ eyes light up when you deliver your products and services?
- A competitor went out of business. What do you do first?
- links for 2008-02-07
- The Monk and the Riddle
- Wal-Mart Nation: Is anxiety over box stores taking over your life?
- links for 2008-02-04
- Small business owners - What’s your offensive line?
- “Starbucks will continue to emulate McDonald’s”
- Political marketing: Mobile and phone support
- Political marketing: Are they testing as they communicate?
- Political marketing: Comparing the first emails from the candidates
- Political marketing: Comparing the signup process & first impressions of the candidate sites
- Candidates, online marketing, and their takeaways for small business
- Why people subscribe to a blog, newsletter, or anything you write
- links for 2008-02-02
- Using Libby’s good news to promote your wood stove business
- A tip for restaurant owners: Royally ticking off the customer-facing employees is a bad idea.
- Why, even now, your business should have a toll-free number
- Righting a wrong: How business owners show they give a rip.
- Are they stealing from you?
- How do you interview, much less hire, that Gen Y person?
- Decide
- links for 2007-09-01
- links for 2007-08-31
- links for 2007-08-30
- What to do when you’re backed into a corner.
- links for 2007-08-29
- Mr. Rogers teaches a $20MM sales lesson
- Did you pass math? Wordpress now requires that you prove it:)
- links for 2007-08-28
- I’m a SOB
- links for 2007-08-27
- links for 2007-08-25
- Can you really “own” a word in your industry?
- What Delta Air Lines’ Richard “Ferocious” Anderson should have said.
- links for 2007-08-23
- Autism Speaks
- Get a huge business edge over 50% of U.S. adults in only 15 minutes a day
- links for 2007-08-22
- Even Dilbert’s friend knows when he’s getting poor customer service.
- links for 2007-08-21
- San Diego recruited for performance AND character. So should your business.
- links for 2007-08-20
- Getting more blog traffic: Social Networking
- This old man, he’s got Dish.
- How to become an overnight business success
- Cull the herd, cultivate the mentor
- If you pay your people minimum wage, you are an idiot.
- How to lose millions of dollars in sales, quickly
- Learning from JFK would help resolve Romney’s marketing problem
- China, toys, dog food and lead
- The right (and wrong) reasons to use CRM software in your business
- Lombardi said “This is a football.”
- Tiers of joy
- X-Ray glasses and other fundamental secret weapons
- Saying “No” so you can say “Yes” later
- Trust the process, whether you’re flippin’ burgers or selling jets
- They know where you live. But do they care?
- Posturing: The Wonder Bread of elected officials
- Word to the Governor - stop smoking
- Why you don’t want to be a perfect “10″ for clients, or your spouse.
- Stand up, brush yourself off, and fix it.
- Online businesses: Service or schmervice?
- Tainted dog food, Oprah and the deafening silence
- Internet banking, static IP addresses & corporate service
- Is your company ready for you to hit the road?
- E-Myth
- Marketing is everywhere…even in Scout troops
- Is your business, or some part of it, on autopilot?
- 80, 15 and 5 - and how it relates to NxLevel
- Statistics don’t lie, can they point out which politicians do?
- What scares a global Fortune 200 CEO?
- Tom Peters, Geeks, Women and WalMart
- Pale, Male and Stale?
- Competition is a funny thing
- SeaTac DoubleTree & Livingston’s Comfort Inn - service with more than a smile
- The public makes it SO easy on us marketing types
- Put Donald Trump in charge of Walter Reed
- Is your coffee shop someone’s office? Want to keep it that way?
- Do you lick the marshmallow, or just gobble it down?