If you’ve seen the power of social media in entrepreneurship and small business, can you afford to ignore Google+? I think not. Plus already has more than 100 million users, and some business press is predicting more than 400 million by the end of this year. But even if you’re already working with social networking for [...]
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You could spend the rest of your life reading detailed guides to SEO and meticulously cramming keywords into every possible tag on your website. You could also empty your bank account on marketing consultants or a crack marketing team that works day and night to raise your company’s search engine profile. For marketers and companies [...]
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Early adopters are showing enough cautious optimism that it’s time you become aware of what all the hype is about with Google+, that’s if you aren’t already “building circles” and “hanging out.” If you think “Why? It’s less than a month old. How big can it be?” You need to know that in its tiny [...]
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I picked this up from the Business Insider Chart of the Day email list from last week. I like the detail here. As Facebook grew, founder Mark Zuckerberg traded share of ownership for investment money. You’ve probably seen a lot of discussion lately about Facebook’s $50 billion value. It’s not a theoretical value of an [...]
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Today’s BIG Blog post is from Mark Macias, author of Beat the Press: Your Guide to Managing the Media. Everyone likes to secretly Google himself, but what happens when Google turns up results you don’t like? How do you get your name removed from the search engines when the material is damaging? An established New [...]
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Did you miss the first internet boom, back in the 1990s, and fail to make your millions then? Did you not write the cute little iPhone app that made the teenager tons of money? Well, cheer up. There’s still hope. Read Google App Inventor: Now Anyone Can Create an Android App on Mashable. That post [...]
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A lot went on this week at Google’s developer conference in San Francisco. Google TV, for example (video below). I’ve got Comcast DVR and Roku these days, plus an iPad, and I’ve gone through ReplayTV and Tivo. But I guess I can’t get enough of this stuff, because now I want Google TV. Consider the [...]
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Not really exclusive. Legal isn’t the whole issue with names. Lots of legal names work fine until you grow and run into somebody else with the same name, in the same business area, who had it first. Check out this true-life story. You can easily have a name that’s legal but stunts your growth because [...]
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Here’s an interesting new business that might be useful for Web app and related entrepreneurs. I found it on TechCrunch this morning: “WatchMouse Monitors 26 Popular APIs So You Don’t Have To.” If you don’t know what an API is, this probably doesn’t concern you, but it stands for Application Programming Interface. You’ll probably recognize [...]
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I’ve posted here recently–several times–on how important web search is for startups and growing businesses. Today I found one interesting new site and received a recommendation for another longstanding good site to follow in this area. Thanks to Josh Cochrane of bplans.com for these tips: The SEO consultants at SEOmoz have a couple of catchy [...]
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