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LinkedIn is the last of the three major social media platforms that every business should be working to establish a presence in.  Remember, the easier it is to find and connect with your business, the easier it is for community to be built around your product or service.  And make no mistake, community equals loyalty, [...]

This is the second week of three,  in a blog series laying out 5 compelling reasons your business should be using at least one, if not all, of the three most popular B2B and B2C social platforms…as well as some useful examples and resources on each.
This Week:

Twitter started out as place to simply update your [...]

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Marketing and customer interaction have long been areas of focus and deliberate action for large and small businesses alike.  The larger companies having bigger budgets, tend to dominate and take advantage of the bigger mediums – television, radio, national magazines, etc.  However, the landscape is changing and has been changing for the past [...]

1. DuctTapeMarketing.com – Founded by John Jantsch, Duct Tape Marketing delivers an extensive weekly marketing newsletter choc-full of small business marketing tips, strategies, and resources.

2. WebsiteGrader.com – “A free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website.” This is a pretty straight-forward tool:  You type in your website, your competitors’ websites, and your [...]

How to get funding for your business plan.

Okay, you’ve written most of your business plan, but now you’re stuck on the financials.  Don’t worry, you’re not alone.  This is one of the most daunting areas you’ll encounter when writing a business plan.  Frankly, most CFOs even try to avoid them.  Lucky for you, we’ve provided some nice templates that you can use.  [...]

If you have access to our Plan Library, then you’ll get the chance to import or view all of our sample business plans.  The business plan library is currently available to users who have a ‘Professional’ or ‘+Funding’ account.
Each time you create a new plan, you’ll be given the option to import one of our [...]

So, you’ve shared your plan with ten of your friends and now you want to share it with two really important investors. But, you’re worried that one of your friends might post a ’stupid’ comment on your plan and one of those really important investors will see it. Listen, we all have those [...]