Fri.Jul 18, 2014

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4 Things You (and Every Small Business) Should Know About Taxes

Up and Running

'Recently our Bplans audience had the chance to attend a free webinar on Small Business Taxes, hosted by the CEO and founder of TaxAlli.com, Zach Olson. The webinar was extremely informative, and we had a lot of great questions from our attendees. As a follow up for our registrants, and in case you didn’t have a chance to attend, we’ve provided Zach’s slide deck above, and the transcript from the webinar below.

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SEO Blended Copy: Dos and Don’ts for Boosting Your Website’s Organic Discoverability

Duct Tape Marketing

'SEO Blended Copy: Dos and Don’ts for Boosting Your Website’s Organic Discoverability written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest post is from Maria Orozova – Enjoy! These days, it’s all about organic: organic produce, organic pressed-juice, holistic baby diapers made from all-organic materials – the list goes on.

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5 ‘P’s” For Your Social Media Marketing Success

YoungUpstarts

'By Jeremy Juhasz, social media strategist at EMSI Public Relations. Small businesses and nonprofits face a different set of circumstances when it comes to social media marketing than their larger for-profit counterparts, namely, smaller budgets, fewer employees and a greater priority on traditional forms of marketing. For those charged with marketing, the biggest first step toward making social media an integral component of the plan may be convincing your organization.

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What Should You Do When Someone Rips Off Your Site Design

Feld Thoughts

'I recently received the following email. I am in a bit of a dilemma and would really appreciate any insight you all have on what to do. Last month, my team worked with a designer to create a new homepage for my startup. Yesterday, I saw that another company ripped off our entire site design. They have also just recently pivoted into doing exactly what we do.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Riding The Rollercoaster Of Cloud-Based Services       

YoungUpstarts

'There is no denying the ever-growing popularity of cloud-based services. Leaving memory sticks lingering in desk drawers, cloud computing makes it incredibly easy for users to store, share and access a wealth of important files, from documents to videos. With many entrepreneurs realising how effective cloud systems can be, workplaces are beginning to incorporate this technology as standard.

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Getting beyond the use case: How to get the most out of customer interviews

The Next Web

'Xiaochang Li is the cofounder of Somaware, an eyes-free, ears-free, hands-free wearable navigation device. This post is part of the Lessons Learned series featuring NYU entrepreneurs’ first-hand accounts of challenges faced in starting a business and the lessons learned along the way. One of the first things I noticed when my co-founder, Mike, and I began speaking to people about tactile navigation devices was how just about everyone had ideas about what (and whom) they could be useful for.

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How To Be Memorable In Business

Mike Michalowicz

'The formula to success? Being memorable. Throughout our lives we constantly encounter people from many walks of life. Often though, we only remember a select few of those folks. Why are some more memorable than others? Why were they more interesting and seemingly more distinguished from the countless others you spoke with that day? The answer is relatively simple: they planted the seeds in your mind that made them take root in your memory.

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Mobile Commerce in Las Vegas – On the Ground at the Downtown Project

Austin Startup

'Last year, Zappos’s CEO Tony Hsieh spent much of his keynote speech at SXSW V2V 2013 on the Downtown Project, the name he gave to his personal economic and cultural revitalization effort of several acres of the original, downtown Las Vegas. Tony made a considerable financial commitment to the Downtown Project of $350 million, to [.].

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Amazon Fulfillment Technologies to Host Networking Event at Geekdom

SiliconHills

'Who uses robotics, computer vision and advanced algorithms to solve some the world’s most interesting problems? Who built the technology to handle 36.8 million items ordered in one day? The answer is AFT; Amazon Fulfillment Technologies. AFT is where virtual meets reality, and where research meets development. We are the people that set the standard […] The post Amazon Fulfillment Technologies to Host Networking Event at Geekdom appeared first on SiliconHills.

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How Much Should You Get For Your Invention Idea?

Startup Professionals Musings

'Every inventor seems to think their invention is worth a million dollars, but I haven’t seen anyone pay that much for one yet. In fact, I often have to tell aspiring entrepreneurs that their inventions have zero value, at least not until they are put in the context of a business plan, with qualified people committed to executing the plan. Early-stage ideas fall in the same category.

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Roll-up Strategy for Chinese Food

The Entrepreneurial Mind

'The Entrepreneurial Mind : Jason Gries. Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Tumblr Stumble Digg Delicious The post Roll-up Strategy for Chinese Food appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Using Forums to Market New Products and Services to Existing Customers

Duct Tape Marketing

'Using Forums to Market New Products and Services to Existing Customers written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest post is from Patrick Clinger – Enjoy! Businesses of all stripes are always looking for new customers to buy their products or services.

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How do you get your news?

Jeff Hilimire

'This week at a pitch event (where startups pitch their businesses), I met the creator of a Google Reader replacement called Minimal Reader. While we traded stories about how much we loved Google Reader (which Google killed off a little over a year ago), we started talking about the news / RSS apps we use currently. Today, Google Play Newsstand and a link to the ESPN homepage are the only “news” sites on my phone’s home screen.

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A Simple, Step by Step Guide For Business Planning

Up and Running

'We have plenty of in-depth articles here on Bplans about business planning, for example: why you should plan , what kind of plan you need , and how to prepare a formal business plan document. But, what we’ve been missing, until now, is a simple step-by-step summary of the business planning process to get you going and give you an overview of the core steps you need to take to ensure you are taking advantage of everything a good planning process has to offer.