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Small Business Innovation Trends Mobile Enterprises

BY Mr Rickman Wed Nov 18, 2009 at 1:15 PM

Today, the number of unemployed in the U.S. has reached about 15 million, over 10 percent nationwide. As a result, millions of people are seeking new opportunities joining a growing trend of Mobile Office Entrepreneurs using the advances in communication technology, entrepreneurial creativity, and the ever-more-hectic pace of modern life all combining to encourage the rapid development of mobile businesses. READ»

BUSINESS | Comment

Seniors and Women Small Business Startups Gain Momentum

BY Mr Rickman Wed Nov 18, 2009 at 1:12 PM

Today’s “Third Age Entrepreneurs”, those seniors over 50-years old are healthy, energetic and competitive and determined to remain productive well into their 70s. They aren’t going anywhere near that rocking chair on the front porch if they can help it. Industry data shows seniors and women entrepreneur - small business startups rapidly increasing. Read more... READ»

BUSINESS | Comment

Seniors and Women Small Business Startups Gain Momentum

BY Mr Rickman Wed Nov 18, 2009 at 1:12 PM

Today’s “Third Age Entrepreneurs”, those seniors over 50-years old are healthy, energetic and competitive and determined to remain productive well into their 70s. They aren’t going anywhere near that rocking chair on the front porch if they can help it. Industry data shows seniors and women entrepreneur - small business startups rapidly increasing. Read more... READ»

TWITTER | 5 comments

Does Your Company Need a Dedicated Tweeter?

BY Chris DannenTue Nov 17, 2009 at 5:24 PM

A new study says that big companies just don't get Twitter (PDF file). Of course they don't: They're not paying anyone to get it. The study, performed by Weber Shandwick, says that only about three-quarters of Fortune 100 ...READ»

HNEWS | 4 comments

New "Microformat" Could Change the Way We Read Online

BY Chris DannenFri Nov 13, 2009 at 1:05 PM

It's called "hNews," and it could provide instantaneous context for any online news article.HNews is the product of a project overseen by none other than Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the physicist who created the first Web protocol in 1990 ...READ»

BUSINESS | Comment

Increase Sales Using Dynamic Marketing

BY Mr Rickman Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 5:05 PM

As the choices of new marketing strategies and initiatives evolve, organizations constantly reevaluate what marketing initiatives to pursue and how much to invest in each marketing communications channel. Learn to help your organization determine how much to invest in from one vehicle versus another? The best way to do this is with the same logical approach for building your own personal or business investment fund. Think of each marketing channel as a stock in your portfolio. Your nonprofit can invest in all types of marketing communications-from paid advertising and direct mail to e-mail lists and social marketing and much more. READ»

BUSINESS | Comment

Sales Results Developing Website Conversion Rates

BY Mr Rickman Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 4:35 PM

Several lead – sales management tools are available to help you monitor the download conversion rates. Do you know your site's conversion rates? What do you take into consideration when making changes to your site's design? Research has shown that 60% of websites do not know their conversion rates. By regularly measuring the websites effectiveness it will increase your sales in comparison with most competitors.READ»

BUSINESS | Comment

China Auto Sales Rise 72% Hit 1.2 Million Units

BY Mr Rickman Mon Nov 9, 2009 at 10:09 AM

Global automakers are looking to China's fast-growing market to drive sales amid slack demand elsewhere. Sales have been spurred by tax cuts and subsidies meant to help nurture China's auto industry and encourage purchases of more fuel-efficient vehicles. Beijing's 4 trillion yuan ($586 billion) stimulus has helped to prop up spending on cars and other big-ticket items, and lifted economic growth (GDP) in the latest quarter to 8.9% from a year earlier. China, Brazil, Australia and India are both seeing significant economic growth. READ»

BUSINESS | Comment

Website Sales Content Solutions Driving More Web Traffic

BY Mr Rickman Sat Nov 7, 2009 at 5:56 PM

There is no single magic pill for building and increasing exposure of high quality website content. Continuously keep yourself educated, updated on evolving tools building upon the elements described above as a foundation for growing your online business goals. Use a well conceived diverse plan of attack designed to draw targeted customers to your website.READ»

BUSINESS | Comment

Sales Power Dialing Results Art Not Simply Technology Based

BY Mr Rickman Sat Nov 7, 2009 at 5:47 PM

Customizing effective cold calling scripts is an art. Have you ever had to read from a script that was prepared for you to sell a product or service? As a sales person, there should be no question that making cold calls is or has been a part of your job. Many people don't like it very much because it requires hard work, discipline and consistency. Let's face it, closing the sale is a lot more fun.READ»

BUSINESS | Comment

Effective Sales Teams For Higher Revenues

BY Mr Rickman Sat Nov 7, 2009 at 5:40 PM

Effective sales is about sustaining momentum thru innovation creating even more revenue opportunities on a consistent basis. Innovative leadership management must often perform the unenviable task of helping those that don't belong to find other career paths. If you want sales to improve, particularly in highly competitive sales industries, then leaders must create a career growth-oriented atmosphere that thrives on constant improvement, regardless of market conditions.READ»

BUSINESS | Comment

Sustainable Job Employment Solutions For USA

BY Mr Rickman Sat Nov 7, 2009 at 5:26 PM

By James Rickman, November 8, 2009 This article contains practical job solutions for Americans. So far much of the national focus has been on getting employers to hire i.e. add jobs instead given the global economic stagnation it’s much more realistic and effective to enable unemployed individuals to "create" their own jobs by fostering small business entrepreneurship. There’s a measurable, huge difference between the two approaches. It’s the key to achieving sustainable economic recovery in America. READ»

NEWS APPS | 2 comments

AP Tightens Grip on Internet News With App-Making App

BY Kit EatonFri Nov 6, 2009 at 6:29 AM

The Associated Press has just rolled out a service to make it simpler for news publishing companies to make apps for practically every smartphone out here. And guess what? In typical "we own the news" AP style, the finished apps can ...READ»

KANYE | Comment

Kanye West is Alive, But Memes May Be In Danger

BY Chris DannenWed Oct 21, 2009 at 1:54 PM

Even if you hate the jackass who stole Taylor Swift's spotlight, it pays to know that Kanye lives. Why? Because the rabble have turned it into a Google-beating malware scheme that could punk you into downloading some bad ...READ»

WIKI | 5 comments

Wikileaks Makes Muckraking Easier by Anonymizing and Protecting Sources

BY Chris DannenFri Oct 9, 2009 at 1:25 PM

Wikileaks is like Wikipedia for sensitive information: a user-populated dossier of classified and leaked stuff, submitted by anonymous sources all over the world. Johnny Law has attempted to shut it down both domestically and abroad, ...READ»

DESIGN | 2 comments

Apple Fights Woolworths Over Logo

BY Kelsey KeithTue Oct 6, 2009 at 1:30 PM

Litigation-happy Apple goes to court again to protect its iconic logo against trademark infringement. READ»

KINDLE | Comment

Should Colleges Subsidize Print News, Or Switch to Kindle?

BY Chris DannenMon Sep 28, 2009 at 2:48 PM

This week Wesleyan University announced that an anonymous donor had given the school $20,000 to subsidize paper New York Times subscriptions for students for the next two years. One hundred and fifty miles away at Princeton ...READ»

BLOG | Comment

Age Distribution of People on the Web

BY Jay BhattiFri Sep 25, 2009 at 12:52 AM

Despite Privacy Concerns, 74% of people openly show their age on the web! As a people search engine, Spock crawls and indexes millions of web documents and social network profiles everyday. As a ...READ»

AUGMENTED REALITY | Comment

Augmented Reality Gets New Dimension: Layar Adds 3-D

BY Kit EatonTue Sep 22, 2009 at 10:49 AM

Layar is going into the third dimension, using clever positional and graphical coding to create three-dimensional metatags that appear to be embedded in the real three-dimensional physical world imaged by a smartphone.READ»

DIGITAL NEWSPAPERS | 16 comments

We, The Blogosphere (An Open Source Letter to President Obama)

BY Kit EatonTue Sep 22, 2009 at 8:20 AM

President Obama openly insulted blogosphere denizens while discussing a plan to "rescue" the traditional news industry. We had a few thoughts.READ»

GOOGLE | Comment

Fast Flip - Google spreads the news

BY Roger AndoutMon Sep 21, 2009 at 10:29 AM

Newspapers - read them in the library with the unemployed and oldies like me.READ»

HYPERLOCAL | Comment

Fwix Allows Publishers to Create Their Own Hyperlocal News Feeds

BY Clay DillowMon Sep 21, 2009 at 8:57 AM

Although it’s usually doling out the headlines, hyperlocal news aggregator Fwix made its own this morning by announcing a way for online publishers to add local news feeds to their sites and widgets.READ»

BUSINESS | Comment

Soon Your Phone Network Will Be a Vanilla Data Channel

BY Kit EatonThu Sep 10, 2009 at 7:26 AM

Nokia just revealed it won't let phone networks apply any proprietary customization to its hot little MID/smartphone the N900. It's another sign that in the future your cell-phone network will be way less important than it thinks it ...READ»

INTERNET | 4 comments

Report: How Twitter Buzz Is Built

BY Chris DannenTue Sep 8, 2009 at 9:28 AM

It's not how you think. A Boston research group called the Web Ecology Project has analyzed 12 of the service's most popular users over the course of a 10-day period, in order to understand how influence works on Twitter. The result ...READ»

HYPERLOCAL | 4 comments

Is Hyperlocal Journalism's Savior?

BY Michael GluckstadtThu Aug 20, 2009 at 12:14 PM

It's been the week of hyperlocal. And by week, I mean the past two days, since Twitter accelerates the online journalism news cycle to roughly the rate at which we breathe. I hadn't finished exhaling the news of Everyblock's sale to ...READ»