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4 Ways to Win the Holiday Shopping Wars

Holiday retail sales are expected to rise. But with big box retailers battling over who can offer the lowest prices, how can small businesses compete?  Read more

How to Bring Real-World Experiences Into Your Social Media 

Jen Rubio talks about how Warby Parker, where she's head of social media, enlists customers to post pictures of themselves wearing Warby Parker glasses.  Watch video

Your Employees Could Be a Lot More Engaged. Here's Proof

A new online tool helps you measure the strength of your company culture. Check out the results so far.  Read more

3 Basics of Facebook Analytics

You've got a few months' worth of Facebook activity under your belt. Now's the time to dig into the data and see what's working.  Read more

Mayra Jimenez: Starting From Scratch 

Mayra Jimenez's swimwear company, The Orchid Boutique, highlights the talents of her native Colombia  Watch video

Guarantee Your Company Turns Up a Lot in Search Results 

Developing online content? Aaron Aders, co-founder of Slingshot SEO, describes what you need to know about search engine optimization.  Watch video

5 Tips for Highly Effective Pinterest Boards

Pretty pictures help, but if you want to make the most of Pinterest, you need a more thoughtful strategy.  Read more

What's Your App Worth? Here's How to Know

Check out some tools that will help you price your app--and sell it to the highest bidder.  Read more

Social Media Is One Big Cocktail Party

Apply the same skills that you might use to work the room of a cocktail party to build the right relationship with your followers and fans.  Read more

Secrets of a Lucrative Social Media Campaign

How one unsexy company used social media to reach an entirely new, youthful customer base, and grew revenue 96%.  Read more

Do You Give Good 'Push'?

Here's how to use push notifications to engage your mobile customers and build brand loyalty.  Read more

8 Tips to Improve Your SEO Now

Stop languishing in a dark corner of the World Wide Web. Grab your developer and go through this checklist to start getting more traffic.  Read more

7 Worst Tweets of 2012

This year businesses fouled up when they posted these egregious, insulting tweets. Don't make these social media mistakes.  View slideshow

Secrets to a Perfectly Crafted Social Media Post

What you say is important. But so is how and when you say it.  Read more

LinkedIn Endorsements Changes Everything. Here's Why

LinkedIn endorsements is to small business owners what the Facebook 'Like' button was to consumer brands: influential exposure.  Read more

How Online Reviews Make (or Break) Your Business

Reviews matter more--much more--than you might think. Here's how to use the feedback to your advantage.  Read more

New Technology Opens Up Markets 

How Sir Richard Branson plans to bring down the $200,000-per-ticket price to bring passengers to space.  Watch video

How Google's Page Redesign Could Affect Your Business

Just in time for the holiday shopping season, the search giant tweaked its search result pages. Here's what you need to know.  Read more

If You Do One Thing on Social Media, Do This 

Aaron Aders, co-founder of Slingshot SEO, explains the first step you need to take on social media before anything else.  Watch video

Infographics Are Hot, Your Boring Data Is Not

Turn your boring piles of stats, data and other information into an eye-catching infographic using these three steps.  Read more

3 Critical Mobile Marketing Insights from Mary Meeker

Former analyst and now VC Mary Meeker gave an unexpected mid-year update on Internet trends. Here are three you can't afford to ignore.  Read more

Want to Spy on Rivals? There's an App for That

Social media can offer lots of clues into your competitors' strategies. The trouble is capturing all that data. A new app promises to do it for you.  Read more

#Sandy: Biggest Event in Instagram History

More than 800,000 photos were marked #Sandy on Instagram. Kevin Systrom, the company's co-founder, explains how this fact marks a shifting tide for social me...  Read more

Don't Sabotage Your Social Media: 6 Sure Ways

Here's a basic checklist to quickly make sure your social media tactics are on the right track.  Read more

Where CEOs Spend Their Time (& Money) on Social Media

A new survey shows that more small business owners are not only using social media but they are willing to pay for help.  Read more