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Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Tracking and Testing Your Advertising Results

Small Business tips about tracking the results of your advertising, it’s absolutely fundamental to your success.

Tags: small business, tips, tracking, results, advertising, marketing

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Posted: 5/8/2009 | Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper

After the Bailout: GM to Increase Foreign Production

Now here is a real “rock and a hard place” quandary for the President and his Car Czar: GM plans to send more manufacturing jobs overseas once they reorganize. The rock is that if the jobs remain here, GM’s labor costs would rise, harming its ability to compete; the hard place is the utter outrage that would ensue if the automaker, after receiving billions of taxpayer dollars, is allowed to send the jobs out of the country.

Tags: american jobs, foreign jobs, gm, obama

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Posted: 5/8/2009 | Comments (0)

Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Yellow Page Advertising

The Small Business tips today will cover the elements you need to know in order to make a Yellow Page advertisement work.

Tags: small business, tips, yellow pages, advertisements, yellow page

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Posted: 5/7/2009 | Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper

The Other Side of the Chrysler Hedge Fund Fight

The President’s sharp words against those investment companies—he called them ‘speculators’—who refused his deal regarding the Chrysler bankruptcy, have been aired far and wide. Now, you should get the other side of the argument and decide for yourself who is right. In an open letter to the nation, Clifford S. Asness, the Managing and Founding Principal at AQR Capital Management, LLC, answers the President.

Tags: chrysler, bankruptcy, hedge funds, investment, obama, clifford s. asness, aqr capital management

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Posted: 5/7/2009 | Comments (0)

Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Direct Mail Advertising

Small Business tips about direct mail: an immediate response media – people either respond or trash immediately.

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Posted: 5/6/2009 | Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper

New Legislation to Help Small Business with Healthcare

Three senators, Durbin (D-IL), Snowe (R-ME), and Lincoln (D-AR) have introduced legislation for consideration in the upcoming Congressional healthcare reform debate that is designed to make insurance more available and affordable for the employees of the nation’s small businesses and for millions of self-employed individuals.

Tags: small business, healthcare, durbin, snowe, lincoln, small business health options program, shop

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Posted: 5/6/2009 | Comments (0)

Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Newspaper Advertising

Small Business tips that address the fact that 57% of adults in the U.S. read a newspaper daily and how to take advantage of this advertising means.

Tags: small business, tips, advertising, news, newspaper, marketing

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Posted: 5/5/2009 | Comments (2)

Charles M Cooper

The New Language of Global Warming

With the way that economic and environmental issues are so powerfully linked together by this administration and this Congress, not to mention the way the issue of global warming is being reexamined and treated with growing skepticism, its no wonder that the environmental movement is coming out with a whole new lexicon to describe global warming and the economy-killing cap-and-trade energy taxes they want to impose to fight it.

Tags: small business, global warming, new language, new terminology

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Posted: 5/4/2009 | Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper

Franchise Decisions: Do You Honor Corporate Specials or Not?

When you own a franchise, you are generally free to ignore corporate promotions. That is the letter of the law. The question is, should you?

Tags: small business, franchises, promotions, corporate specials franchisee rights

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Posted: 5/1/2009 | Comments (2)

Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Advertising via Social Networks

These Small Business tips give the base on how to use social networking to market and advertise your business.

Tags: small business, tips, marketing, advertising, internet, social media, social networking

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Posted: 5/1/2009 | Comments (1)

Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Placing Internet Advertisements

Are you interested in running internet ads? You should be! Cheap & flexible. Within are some Small Business tips on what you need to know to get started.

Tags: small business, tips, advertisements, adwords, google, ads

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Posted: 4/30/2009 | Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper

US vs. Them in the Chrysler Bankruptcy

Chrysler is entering bankruptcy, which—along with its wayward big brother GM—it should have done a long time and billions of wasted dollars ago. That is the good news. The bad news, and a troubling glimpse into how the President sees capitalists, is that he has decided that those investors who didn’t like the deal he and his car czar were offering are nothing more than speculators.

Tags: chrysler, obama, investors, speculators, venture capital, bankruptcy

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Posted: 4/30/2009 | Comments (0)

Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Online Marketing: Creating an Email Newsletter

Small Business tips that teach you how to start an email newsletter the right way.

Tags: small business, tips, email, newsletter, online, marketing

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Posted: 4/29/2009 | Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper

The Swine Flu and Your Business

Someone once called schools “cesspools of disease” for the ease with which sickness can be passed from one student to another. Well, the same goes for the typical office, especially when it comes to something like the current swine flu. Here are some ideas on how to keep your employees, your workplace and yourself safe.

Tags: small business, swine flu, flu prevention

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Posted: 4/29/2009 | Comments (1)

Kim Fenolio