In celebration of today’s Facebook’s IPO, the social network that arguably started and legitimized the social media marketing industry, we have a list of the Top 10 U.S. Cities with the Most Social Media Savvy Small Businesses. Radius, a sales intelligence provider of small business data, published the list in their first ever Radius Social Small Business Report, which track 85 cities across the U.S. and ranks them via their Radius Score Index. The index is a measure of the [...]
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Top 10 U.S. Cities with Most Social Media Savvy Small Businesses
In celebration of today’s Facebook’s IPO, the social network that arguably started...
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WARNING: Google’s Penguin Search Algorithm Update Hurting Small Businesses
Google’s latest search algorithm update, called Penguin, is hurting small businesses, according...
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Get a Custom Made Online Video For Your Business From Video Brewery
Need a custom made online video for your small business? Whether an animated screencast, online...
- United States of Entrepreneurs: 550,000 New Businesses Created Each Month in the USA
- How to Use Social Media to Keep Your Email Subscribers Engaged
- Here’s Why Your Small Business Should Buy Mobile Search Ads Right Now
Strategy
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United States of Entrepreneurs: 550,000 New Businesses Created Each Month in the USA
Recession? What recession? The poor economic conditions might have beat us down to a pulp for...
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How to Use Social Media to Keep Your Email Subscribers Engaged
Crystal Gouldey is an Education Marketing Associate at AWeber, the leading email service provider...
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LinkedIn 4X Better than Twitter & 7X Better than Facebook for B2B Customer Leads [STUDY]
HubSpot, the all-in-one inbound marketing software company, came out with a new study that shows...
- License123 Makes Getting Small Business Licenses and Permits as Easy as 1-2-3
- Dollar Shave Club Lathers Up and Shaves Off a Slice of the $13 Billion Men’s Razor Industry
- What Kind of Entrepreneur Are You? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Commerce
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How to Turn Groupon into a Powerful and Effective Weapon for Your Small Business
Groupon and hundreds of other deal-of-the-day coupon services have exploded in popularity the last...
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Warby Parker: The Toms Shoes and Zappos of Eyeglasses
Ever wonder why the cost of eyeglasses is so high? Neil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa wondered the...
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Braintree Simplifies Credit Card Payment Processing for Small Business
One of the most frustrating and confusing steps of launching a business is navigating the treacherous...
Social Media
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Top 10 U.S. Cities with Most Social Media Savvy Small Businesses
In celebration of today’s Facebook’s IPO, the social network that arguably started...
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How to Use Social Media to Keep Your Email Subscribers Engaged
Crystal Gouldey is an Education Marketing Associate at AWeber, the leading email service provider...
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LinkedIn 4X Better than Twitter & 7X Better than Facebook for B2B Customer Leads [STUDY]
HubSpot, the all-in-one inbound marketing software company, came out with a new study that shows...
- Google Launches Google+ Share Button
- Google Giving Away $50 Million in Free Advertising for Small Businesses to Use on YouTube
- Klout Introduces Brand Pages for Companies to Engage with their Influencers
Mobile
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Here’s Why Your Small Business Should Buy Mobile Search Ads Right Now
Why should your small business invest in mobile search ads? They’re cheaper than traditional...
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10 Powerful iPhone Apps for Your Small Business
This guest post is by Kelsey Libert on behalf of Metrofax, the leading provider of Internet faxing....
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Amazon Selling All Non-iPhone Smartphones for $.01 Including Motorola Droid Razr
If you haven’t heard already, Amazon has declared war against Apple by having a MONSTER Penny-pincher...
- LinkedIn Relaunches CardMunch, the iPhone App That Will End the Use of Business Cards
- 5 Mobile Marketing Tips for Small Business
- 10 Useful iPhone Apps for Small Business Travel
Technology
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WARNING: Google’s Penguin Search Algorithm Update Hurting Small Businesses
Google’s latest search algorithm update, called Penguin, is hurting small businesses, according...
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Get a Custom Made Online Video For Your Business From Video Brewery
Need a custom made online video for your small business? Whether an animated screencast, online...
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Social CRM App Nimble Now Available as a Google Chrome Extension
Nimble, the Santa Monica, California-based Social CRM app, is now available as a Google Chrome...
- License123 Makes Getting Small Business Licenses and Permits as Easy as 1-2-3
- The Most Ridiculously Easy-to-Use Billing and Invoicing App on the Web
- Groupon Launches Free Online Appointment Booking Tool for Small Businesses
Small Business Tools & Resources
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Social CRM App Nimble Now Available as a Google Chrome Extension
Nimble, the Santa Monica, California-based Social CRM app, is now available as a Google Chrome Extension in the Google Chrome Web Store. Nimble is a web-based social CRM (customer relationship management) app that lets small businesses manage their contacts, calendars, communications and social conversations...
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The Most Ridiculously Easy-to-Use Billing and Invoicing App on the Web
I was browsing Sarah’s FAVES and stumbled upon Billable, quite simply the most ridiculously easy-to-use small business billing and invoicing app on the web. Created by South Africa’s Peter Pistorius and Barbara Cilliers of Appfactory, Billable’s motto is Billing Made Simple. Period....
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HR/Recruiting Platform Hireology Releases Several New Features Including Candidate Assessments
Hireology, the Chicago-based high-powered HR/recruiting platform, released several new features recently including candidate assessments, customized email templates, non-numeric input for job compensation and an overhauled reference check guide. Whether a sales test, administrative skills test, legal...
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LinkedIn Relaunches CardMunch, the iPhone App That Will End the Use of Business Cards
Although I was excited to get my first batch of Firmology business cards (free from Moo!), I dislike carrying them around and dislike collecting business cards from people I meet. The cards just end up as wasted paper in scattered piles at the office, at home, in my laptop bag or straight in the trash. As...
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How Your Small Business Can Mail and Ship Like a Heavyweight
Editor’s Note: This guest post is by Shayna Burns and the team at Pitneyworks.com, the official site for Pitney Bowes small business postage machines, mailing systems, PC postage and other postal equipment. You may be running your business like a champ, but are you missing out on small wins,...
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37signals Launches LinkedIn Profiles in Highrise
37signals, the Chicago-based small business web application company, has launched LinkedIn profiles in Highrise, its web-based contact manager or customer relationship management (CRM) software. The new feature let’s users see the LinkedIn profile of a contact by adding their LinkedIn profile URL...
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Hireology Releases Two New Features: Interview Editing & Hospitality Job Industry Options
Hireology, the Chicago-based high-powered HR/recruiting platform, released two new features yesterday: interview editing and hospitality job industry options. Hospitality job family, as they officially call it, is a preloaded database of information for the hospitality industry. If your small...
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inDinero Users Can Now Track Their Receipts [BONUS: Win a $300 AmEx Gift Card]
InDinero, the easy-to-use financial dashboard for small businesses, has announced that users can now upload and track their receipts on inDinero. The Silicon Valley-based tech startup is essentially the Mint.com for small business. Small business owners can gain an understanding of the vital signs...
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FeeFighters Launches Samurai, Online Payment Gateway for Credit Card Processing
FeeFighters, the Chicago-based comparison shopping site for credit card processing, recently launched a new payment gateway option for online merchants called Samurai, joining other tech companies like Braintree in cleaning up the notoriously unscrupulous payments industry. FeeFighters has been...
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Hireology Officially Launches New Pricing Plans
Hireology, the high-powered HR/recruiting platform based in Chicago, officially released their new pricing plans on their product blog on Tuesday. We reported last week that Hireology sent a head’s up email to its free beta customer program users that the program was ending on September...
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HR/Recruiting Platform Hireology Ends Beta Customer Program and Unveils Pricing Model
Hireology, the high-powered HR/recruiting platform based in Chicago, announced that it is ending its free beta customer program on September 21st and unveiled its pricing model going forward. In an email today, the service thanked its users for making the beta program a huge success, and after...
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LawPivot is the Q&A Site for Your Small Business Legal Questions
I attended Chicago’s TechWeek conference recently and met the team behind LawPivot, a Silicon Valley based startup founded by Jay Mandal, the former lead mergers and acquisitions lawyer for Apple. LawPivot is essentially the Quora of legal advice or for those not as familiar with the tech scene,...
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Hireology Makes Small Business Hiring Easy with High-Powered HR/Recruiting Platform
Some business owners think they are a good judge of a job candidate’s skill set, work ethic and culture fit. Unfortunately, most of us are horrible at it. While big corporations spend millions of dollars on building out their HR department, recruiting commissions, standardized hiring templates...
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Braintree Simplifies Credit Card Payment Processing for Small Business
One of the most frustrating and confusing steps of launching a business is navigating the treacherous waters of the online payments industry. The industry is notorious for high pressure sales tactics, sky-high merchant fees, confusing terms and ironclad contracts. I experienced this firsthand when...
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inDinero Provides a Simple Way For Small Businesses to Track Their Finances
Ever since Mint.com launched a simple and intuitive site for individuals to track their personal finances, many small business owners have been looking for a similar service or tool to track their finances. While there are plenty of finance tools available on the market, most mom and pop businesses...
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Can’t Afford Traditional PR For Your Small Business? Try a Little Bitesize PR.
What small business owner wouldn’t love to have their business mentioned in a newspaper, magazine or online news article? The problem for most small businesses is that they either can’t afford, or refuse to budget for, a traditional PR firm that will cost them thousands of dollars in monthly...
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