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5 Trends That Will Shape Small Business in 2012

Duct Tape Marketing

Other marketplaces such as Amazon, Etsy, Buy.com and eBay are moving toward socializing your product search and becoming decision engines. Blog posts, white papers and in-person and online seminars create awareness, build trust, educate and illustrate core stories. Search moves to apps. Content becomes conversion.

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Expenses You Don't Think of When Starting a Business

Software By Rob

The comments here and on a few social bookmarking sites mentioned that you could quit your day job if you wanted to, and that you could live on $2500/month just fine in many cities in the world (although in my hypothetical situation I was speaking about a developer based in the hypothetical U.S.). 44 Steve P on 01.14.09 at 7:30 am [.]