Five Mistakes to Avoid in Global Marketing
Taking the leap and marketing your business overseas could be the best decision you make this year. The economic outlook might be gloomy in the United States and Europe, but that’s far from true in the rest of the world. And for small to medium business owners, the internet is a relatively cheap way to [...]
10 Reasons You’re Not Reaching Your Goals; or, What I Learned from Writing a Really Crappy Novel
I hit a big goal of mine – finally – just before 2011 ended. I finished writing the novel I began five or so years ago. When I say finished, however, what I mean is that the very first, very rough draft is complete, ringing in at just under 80,000 words. I am now the [...]
Seal the Deal: The 6 Laws of Successful Sales
Each and every business focuses on its sales numbers. Whether a company offers products or services, their ultimate success depends on how many people they can convince to invest in them. While many believe that the executives in their ivory towers determine the daily success of a company, the people truly steering the ship are [...]
Why You Need to Compartmentalize Your Life when Building a Business
Starting a business can be one of the most challenging things that you can take on in your life. While the rewards of owning your own business cannot be matched in the corporate world, the hours worked and rollercoaster ride of highs and lows can often be extreme. One way to deal with the workload [...]
Get Creative with Social Media: How to Make it Work for You
Social media marketing is a great way to network and share information. For a business, that means it’s a good channel for making and maintaining prospective business contacts; distributing news and announcements; and sharing examples of your work. But that’s only one way to use social media. There are many other ways to mine your [...]
LinkedIn Partners with Experience.com for Colleges and Universities
Experience.com, which provides career services to over 3,000 colleges and universities, announced last week that they have arranged a partnership with the professional networking site, LinkedIn.com. They’ll be integrating LinkedIn’s technology and profile information into their platform, which is university-endorsed and utilized by college students and alumni in the millions. Experience and LinkedIn plan further [...]
Lessons Learned: The Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
By Brett Orzechowski and David Tomczyk HAMDEN, Conn. – A movement continues across college campuses to simulate “real-life” situations that are equal parts emotional, professional, practical and educational. My colleague and I set out to do just that. We took a generation raised on technology and combined it with one of the most difficult industries [...]
Congratulations to all Small Business Influencer 2011 Nominees!
Nominations are in, and the voting is down to the final week in the “Small Business Influencer 2011″ awards, produced by Small Business Trends and Small Biz Technology. Small Business Influencer 2011 is meant to honor companies, organizations, and people who, “…have made a significant impact on the North American small business market,” according to [...]
City Connect
Sofvue, an Internet development firm, has been developing software and Internet apps for twenty years. Our latest offering, “City Connect”, is a citywide Internet business portal using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and other state-of-the-art technologies riding atop our proprietary TITAN1 Application Engine.
Setster
Setster is an internet technology platform targeting the professional services market. Doctors, Lawyers, Therapists, Stylists, groomers and everyone who depends on an appointment calendar to meet with his/her clients. Setster will bring innovative simple next generation web 2.0 ease of use to the process of appointment setting between service providers and their clients
Myfavi
Myfavi was created in the year 2009 with the intention of making Internet browsing easier. We all know there are a lot of sites out there, and we like a bunch of them, but how do we keep track of all those sites ? That’s how Myfavi.com was born! This is our present to you, [...]
Where Are You Eating
WhereAreYouEating.com is about discovering new local places to eat. Are you tired of eating at the same places over and over again? Want to know where most people are eating? Well look no further! This site will let you discover and explore new eateries all around you.
