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How To Start A Blog For Your Small Business

Buffer Social

After all, you’re a small business owner, and probably not a trained writer. A blog can also be a low-cost way to elevate your small business’s reach and also build credibility with your followers, making it a win-win situation. Why start a blog for your small business?

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Indian Companies on Twitter – A Usage Study

The Marketing Blog

39 pm Indian Companies on Twitter – A Usage Study Jump to Comments We recently did a study to understand how the businesses in India are using twitter. For this study we profiled 66 companies from ’9′ verticals and analysed them on different quantitative & qualitative parameters like no.

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CRM for the SMB

Small Business Mavericks

Today’s CRM market is filled with many systems that are appropriate for the small business owner. provides contact management for the small business owner. For more sophisticated features, companies will want to look into the paid editions. But times have changed. Lauren Carlson. CRM Analyst.

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Google Knol Is Dead

Small Business Mavericks

The Google Knol home page links to a company called Annotum , which will be the new name of Knol pages starting in May 2012. I’d say that Annotum appears to be an open source endeavor being pushed by for-profit companies like Solvitor LLC and Crowd Favorite. It appears that Annotum will be powered by WordPress.com.

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Best Free Alternatives to Microsoft Office Word

SocialFish

As more features emerge on Microsoft’s text and spreadsheet management tools, many companies want to compete with it by releasing free software available to everyone. Libre Office is open-sourced by its huge community that works on bringing useful updates and assets daily. Completely free and open-sourced.

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5 Things I’ve Learned from Running BizSugar

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

When my company, Small Business Trends, LLC, first purchased BizSugar in the summer of 2009, the best way I could describe it was as a miniature version of Digg, except that BizSugar focused soley on sharing information geared toward small and mid-sized businesses. Many people think a web business runs itself.

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How to Cut Costs with Your Own Support Community

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

They feel a stronger connection with your company, increasing the chance that they’ll stay customers for a long time. From small business to the enterprise, brands consistently prove the power of online community. With so many customers spread across so many products, the company has a huge customer support burden.

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