Late last year, Demos, a British think-tank, released a report that concluded that social networking was good for business. The report was more focused on employee usage of social networking sites, but I believe the information is applicable to small and solo businesses, too.
“The report points out that the value of networking within an economic downturn is perhaps more important than ever,” Robert Ainger, Corporate Director of Orange Business which co-produced the report, told Reuters, “and I believe it could mean the difference between a business collapsing or capitalizing on …

How to Build a System That Makes Clients Come to You
While preparing for my second annual Small Biz Marketing Summit (a training seminar for service professionals) I was looking for the overall theme to promote my event.
After days and weeks of struggling to come up with the right idea, I finally stumbled upon results of little known research that revealed the “seven marketing habits” of super-successful companies. Instantly I knew I found my “Holy Grail.”
What surprised me the most, was how information so elemental can be so profound at the …