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Small Business, Smart Marketing, Big Results (The Prairie Advocate)
Headlines today state that consumers are more reluctant to spend their hard-earned dollars and that the number of people losing their jobs may be increasing. Consumers will be spending money more wisely, and small business owners need to be prepared. How to Build a Small-Business Web Site, Part 1: Nuts and Bolts (E-Commerce Times)
When it comes to setting up your Web presence, entrepreneurs are surprisingly lax. Depending on who you talk to, about half of small businesses do not have a Web site. Most of those will tell you that it's just too complicated, time-consuming and expensive a job to take on. Charleston company a finalist in ‘Wired' business competition (Charleston Regional Business Journal)
Jason Bradford's music label, Tone Box Digital , has been selected as a finalist in a Wired small-business competition that runs online this month. MarketTools Unveils Industry-First Research Quantifying Business Risks of Poor Sample Quality (Centre Daily Times)
MarketTools, Inc. today announced new research that for the first time conclusively demonstrates a clear connection between fraudulent survey respondents and skewed survey data. The research shows that fraudulent responses have the potential to impact billions of dollars in product and marketing decisions each year. The report, titled "What Impact Do ‘Bad Respondents' Have on Business ... The emerging case for open business methods (ZDNet)
The Internet has been the genesis of countless useful business innovations over the last several decades. These include a globally unified e-mail network, the advent of search engines, the rise of rich user experiences and SaaS, and most recently cloud computing to name but a few. But perhaps one of the most far-reaching innovations was the Internet's ability to enable the creation and ... Viewpoint: Small Business Owners Shouldn't Fret Over Stocks (BusinessWeek)
Small Business Owners Shouldn't Fret Over Stocks (BusinessWeek)
Village Stroll geared to bring Lake Placid together this Holiday Season (Lake Placid News)
LAKE PLACID - The nation may be facing uncertain economic times - but if the orchestrators of Lake Placid's first Holiday Village Stroll have their way, local area businesses will receive a nice boost this holiday shopping season. The Holiday Village Stroll is scheduled for the weekend of Dec. 5 to 7. The brainchild of local business owners and marketing professionals, it is hoped Khaleej Times: Business (Khaleej Times)
Just how bad will the economy get? For employers facing tough decisions about layoffs, the question is far from rhetorical. If the current economic turmoil is contained sooner than expected, premature layoffs could be a disaster. A vintner's vision: Wine from mangosteens (CNN Money)
Looking back, Dominic Rivard has to admit that starting a business in Thailand within weeks of a military coup might not have been the best idea.
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