February 8, 2012 - 12:49 pm
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There’s a natural lifecycle for any freelancer’s business. When you’re just starting out, you indiscriminately look to attract as many clients as you can to build your business. But inevitably, some clients won’t be the right fit.
Whether it’s an overly-demanding client who’s prone to instant message you any time of day (or night), an indecisive [...]
February 8, 2012 - 12:54 am
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Small business owners are notoriously busy. You have a business to run, a Web presence to manage, customers to serve, vendors to hunt down, invoices to pay, social media to keep up with, and, oh, sometimes you like to pretend to have a social life. With so many different things on your plate, wouldn’t it [...]
February 6, 2012 - 12:50 pm
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This Is a Message from Your Heart
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I had a heart scan the other day – mainly because I’m old and my spouse is convincing in the most loving way.
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If you’ve never done it, it’s a pretty incredible experience to get to watch the awesome mechanical miracle that [...]
February 6, 2012 - 12:51 am
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I like charts, graphs, and diagrams because they make sense. Sure, your can skew them all sorts of ways, and sometimes they can get a bit out of hand, but they make sense.
Arrow going up? Great! Series of bars getting shorter? Not so good. Easy.
But I have to admit that Venn diagrams don’t do a [...]
February 6, 2012 - 12:51 am
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Ever felt like you’d like the 911 status on your business, in one view, one place? All the vitals so you can see, at a glance, what’s going on in the different areas of your company? If you have wanted to combine your web analytics, CRM, project management, sales pipeline, customer support requests, to name [...]
February 4, 2012 - 12:49 pm
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Have you noticed that there is a whole new personality and a new way of being to successful entrepreneurship? Just compare the successful entrepreneurs from one hundred years ago and those of today – there is a subtle difference about how Andrew Carnegie built his business and how Larry Page and Sergey Brin built Google.
This [...]
February 3, 2012 - 12:49 pm
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The Rolling Stones proudly sang, “Time is on my side, yes it is.” These days, time seems to be an adversary that everyone is fighting, especially when it comes to social media and small business. Unlike large corporations, small businesses do not have the ability to hire teams of individuals to monitor and respond to [...]
January 31, 2012 - 12:48 pm
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Many of us love engaging with our customers, industry folks and like-minded individuals on Twitter. Some of us also believe that time spent on Twitter translates to more awareness for our brand, and thus more customers. But how do we measure if it’s working? Or how much time is too much time?
Here are some of [...]
January 30, 2012 - 12:51 am
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Tibbetts Awards 2012
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January 24, 2012 - 12:53 am
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