U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin wants to know if Google’s current dustup with China has the potential to create more cracks in that country’s Great Firewall. So late Tuesday, the Illinois Democrat sent letters to 30 top technology…

Microsoft has released some research that suggests a direct correlation between IT usage and business growth for small and midsize businesses. According to the company’s findings, businesses using hosted services have better financial performance.

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There’s a new article today on Salon titled: Healthcare Reform Rock Star, featuring one of our favorite authors, Atul Gawande. Gawande is a staff writer for the New Yorker and author of The Checklist Manifesto: How to…

If there’s any one thing that can be said about SEO with certainty, it’s that it manages to cause a lot of confusion.

For example, it seems like many people’s idea of SEO was formed 10 years ago,…

It appears that Grand Rapids Airport (that’s Gerald R Ford International, in case you were wondering) has deployed a very interesting tactic in its fight for more air service . . . insults. I can’t say I imagine this is…

When people criticize you, what’s the best thing to do? Show up and face the music.

President Barack Obama did just that when he met with Republican House members at their party conference last week in Baltimore. He met face-to-face…

(This is the fourth in a series of posts reviewing the fundamentals of planning, with an eye for how they’re changing over time. Part one was Form Follows Function. Part 2 was All Business Plans…

“Brought to you by …” Ahhh, the golden age of advertising. The ads themselves were social markers, drivers of our conversation, definers of what was — and was not — cool. We took them at face value,…

Sales Coaching Tip 

After all is said and done (listening, planning, practicing, preparing, attitude adjustments, etc)…IF YOU ARE NOT OUT SELLING, YOU ARE BEING OUT SOLD. 

TOP PERFORMING sales professionals too often get bogged down with too many unnecessary and…

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