Category: THE Small Business Expert Blog

Is your state in the top 10 for online business friendliness?

Almost every week we see a new article with a headline like “10 best cities for startups” or “10 most business-friendly states.” Frontier Communications, the digital, long distance, cable TV, and Internet service provider, just released their “Top 10” list and it has a specific focus that makes it interesting: 10 Friendliest States for Online […]

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Content Marketing/SEO Success: Two Places to Gather Business Intelligence

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Microsoft Office for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. Ready! Fire! Aim! The order of those commands may seem patently silly, but frankly, they capture exactly what many small business owners do when they work with content marketing campaigns and search engine optimization (SEO). […]

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Why likeable social media is crucial to your success and what to do about it

Quick question: What do you feel when you see those “sponsored” posts in your Facebook news feed? Granted, some may interest you, but aren’t most of them a bit of a turnoff? Further, I don’t think I’m going out on a limb to say that most of us don’t really like them. The likeability factor […]

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