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What's Happening
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Have you heard the news?
Duck Duck Google is a new game being played that could impact millions of business owners and online marketers around the world. The game is a great enhancement to Google Maps and looks like fun for consumers searching for information...
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Imagine if you were Google. Hundreds of millions of people come to you everyday and ask you questions. A large percentage of the questions are generic and vague. What are you supposed to do if you don’t really know what the person is looking for?...
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CloudProfile was featured today by Mashable.com as part of their Spark of Genius series which highlights innovative start-ups. So what’s the genius idea behind CloudProfile?
Quite simply, it’s the modern equivalent of the print yellow pages...
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Lot’s of small businesses know about the millions of people interacting on Facebook and Twitter — but most of them don’t know how to use these services to help bring customers through the front door.
Here are 5 things small business...
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The countdown is on!
50 companies, including CloudProfile, have been selected to strut their stuff and show their innovation in the demo pit at TechCrunch 50 on September 14th and 15th in San Francisco.
SMBLive is one such company and I am super excited...
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After 4 years building software in partnership with British Telecom, SMBLive has launched a conversational web presence for businesses here in the US. The solution, called CloudProfile ( http://www.cloudprofile.com ) addresses the following: In 2008,...
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Are you interested in attracting more customers to your business?
One easy way to do this is to improve your online listening skills. Listen to people talk. Hear their needs. Discover their likes and dislikes. Believe it or not — the simple act...
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Twitter is just like real estate because it’s all about location.
Online marketers everywhere are abuzz with talk of social services like Twitter and Facebook and are busy trying to create interesting ways to leverage these rich online conversations...
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Whether your business has a web site already — or you’re creating a presence for the first time — CloudProfile is the perfect way to promote your business on the web..
Whether you’ve been in business for 20 years or 20 minutes,...
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Facebook announced yesterday that is has acquired FriendFeed for a reported $50m.
As a small business owner, you’ve probably never even heard of FriendFeed and you’re probably wondering why in the world you should give a crap?
Here are 3 reasons...
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Four years ago this week I got together with a group of really smart guys and co-founded a company called SMBLive.
We began by partnering with British Telecom to develop a white label online directory platform called Tradespace. The idea was simple. Help...
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Alot of folks these days seems to be talking about the inevitable death of newspapers.
It’s a big and complicated subject — and it’s refreshing to come across someone like Steve Baldwin offering perspective that is both insightful and...
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The reason Amazon loves Zappos is because Zappos, unlike any company in the world, obsesses over customers — and Jeff Bezos knows that obsessing over customers is the key to long term success. Just watch this video and see for yourself. So what...
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Thanks to Chris Brogan for highlighting this post by Doug Meacham in which he reports on a “rather tense” Twitter exchange between Doug and Best Buy CMO Barry Judge.
It’s a interesting read. I’ll let you form your own opinion about...
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As highlighted by my colleague Alex Hawkinson, Facebook announced yesterday that it signed up its 250 millionth user.
So what does this mean for small business owners?
It means that, more than ever, you need simple online marketing tools to help you get...
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CloudProfile is one of the easiest ways for SMBs to embrace social media and become better online marketers.
Watch these two videos to see for yourself.
Video #1 shows how easy it is to “connect” a CloudProfile site with Facebook and Twitter....
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Warning: This post is a totally gratuitous commercial for CloudProfile. That said, i think you should read it, especially if you’re interested in getting paid great money to help SMBs become better online marketers.
Different from traditional web...
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I am firm believer that commerce between people starts and ends with a simple conversation — and I believe that the web is increasingly the place where most of these conversations are happening.
Want some proof? Check out this survey research released...
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Question: What do President Obama and SMBLive Have in Common?
Answer: Both are committed to helping SMBs survive this difficult economy.
Just this afternoon The Washington Post reported that President Obama is considering plans to make a portion of the...
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Are you thinking about starting a new business in the current recession?
If so, then prepare yourself for the strange looks that you’ll undoubtedly get from friends, family, and colleagues.
You see most people are inherently conservative and have...
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By Mike Jalonen, Mural VP of Sales & Marketing When our creative team released our new website, the bold line on the home page made me very nervous. It said (and still does) “Mural is a full-service digital engagement agency. Honestly, we always...
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When companies are considering the move to include a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, there tend to be two groups: those who know they don’t have the necessary expertise and often don’t know what questions to ask, and those who think...
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Remember that chapter in your business textbook about the sales model? It probably looked something like this: For the most part, this model is still valid. All of these things still happen. The small, yet important difference between then and now is...
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In working with startup SaaS vendor Sonian Networks ( www.soniannetworks.com ) I heard the CEO, George Nichols, use the term "Legacy SaaS" to refer to those OLD SaaS providers who build and operate their SaaS offerings the old fashioned way...
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Check out this interesting interview on YouTube. My mate Ivan Croxford explains BT Tradespace as a mechanism for enabling social commerce....
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