by Amy Porterfield 

  

Amy Porterfield is the co-author of Facebook Marketing All-In-One for Dummies and creator of the Facebook marketing training program, FBinfluence. You can join her on Facebook at facebook.com/AmyPorterfield or read her blog at AmyPorterfield.com.

Facebook isn’t just the largest social networking site on the web (with ... << MORE >>

BY Kit Eaton  Thu Jan 19, 2012

At its New York event, Apple's Phil Schiller just revealed that the tech giant has big plans to reinvent the educational textbook market and the technology that underpins their use in lessons.

Phil Schiller just gave teachers a shiny new Apple.

As we'd suspected, Apple's senior vice president ...

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4 January 2012 by Justin



Quick-Response codes are a great mobilizing idea — in theory. However, according to Forrester Research, only 5% of American consumers who own mobile phones report actually ever scanning one in the ... << MORE >>

by Tara Jacobsen on January 18, 2012
for Marketing Artfully

So today I am working on small business marketing plans for some of our clients. While I love the thrill of coming up with new ideas, the most important part to assuring success to have a rock solid, laid out, step-by-step plan!

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by Soma Jurgensen on January 18, 2012

As the business world becomes more and more competitive, attention for your small business will continue to become more challenging. Many new, small business owners are turning to locally based businesses to fulfill their dreams and support their livelihoods. At the same time, consumer attention is a scarcity in this era, thus local internet marketing can’t be ignored.

If small business owners want to know where ... << MORE >>

Posted by Influential Marketing Blog

Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Let me tell you a little secret. I look forward to putting together an annual trend report the same way that some people look forward to having Turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. I realize that may sound a bit strange, but ever since I did my first trend recap last year I was hooked. This year, the ...

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Posted Jan 18th, 2012 at 7:40 AM 

Management and leadership aren't the same, and knowing when to focus on each is crucial, Marc Cenedella of TheLadders says in this Big Think video. "Leadership is what is hard or what is impossible or what can't be done and why we're going to go do it," he says, but "management style is really more focused around ... what is it that we actually have to accomplish." Entrepreneurs will want to pay special ...

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Posted by CMLP Staff  January 18th, 2012 

for Citizen Media Law Project

in United States Censorship Copyright Free Speech Linking Resources and Tools Third-Party Content 

In light of today's internet blackouts, we have received numerous requests for information about the Stop Online Piracy Act ("SOPA") and the << MORE >>

Sunday, January 8, 2012

for Shear Social Media Law

 

Having foresight and advising clients on how to successfully navigate potential legal risks is what lawyers are paid to do. On January 10, 2011, I made 10 social media law predictions for the year and nine of them have come true; the tenth one appears that it will be realized within the next couple of months. In no particular order, below are some of my social media law predictions for 2012:
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by Anne Marie Nicpon, Dawn Yamane Hewett, and Trent Norris

For Consumer Advertising Law Blog

The deadline has passed -- is your company in compliance with the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act?

The law, which went into effect just days ago on January 1, 2012, is part of a growing effort to shine light on a huge commercial problem: human trafficking ... << MORE >>