Blending Content and E-Commerce, Food52 Whips Up $6M in Funding
Food52, an online destination for home cooks, will be focusing on its mobile platform and its e-commerce store, Provisions.
10 Top Financial Tips for Early-Stage Startups
While your focus is understandably on immediate survival, what else should you be thinking of, especially where your finances are concerned?
Digital Transformation Is Making Businesses More Human
30 kids walk into a classroom, and what happens next is changing the future of business.
Satisfied vs. Delighted: Raising the Customer Experience Bar
Mere customer satisfaction is now a commodity consumers can get anywhere, and they expect no less. If you want them to remember you and return, you must surprise and delight them.
Why 2014 Will Be the Year of the Small Business
This is the year for small businesses to prove they are indeed the backbone of the U.S. economy. With agile and affordable technology, SMBs can entice more customers and secure more revenue than their enterprise counterparts. So strap on your party hat, 2014 is the Year of the SMB. Cheers!
It’s a Free Country, So Have Fun Wearing it
For the last 20 years, family-run outdoor apparel maker Free Country has been in the business of outfitting adventure-seeking, outdoorsy types with a product line based on having fun.
Do Powerful Men Want Their Own Yogurt?
‘Powerful Yogurt’ is an all-natural, nonfat, protein-packed Greek yogurt for buff and regular dudes alike looking to build muscle, burn fat and “find [their] inner abs.” Marketing gold, or risky business?
6 Ways to Close More Deals This Holiday Season
Salespeople, it’s time to start hearing the sleigh bells! Here are six ways to bring home more bacon just in time for the holidays.
What Etsy Can Teach Us About Ecommerce
Here are a few marketing strategies that have been instrumental to the success of Etsy and its stores, as well some helpful suggestions on how you can utilize these strategies in your own ecommerce marketing efforts.
5 Things to Know About Writing Pitch Emails
Here are tips for making sure your pitch emails get noticed, and opened.
Get Out of the Forest and Build Your Brand
You are beyond busy running your business. But when it comes to brand building, you have to make time.
Is Your Marketing Stuck in the Past?
Don’t toil away at perfecting ancient methodologies while innovative upstarts eat your market share.
Marketing Tips to Set Your Brand Apart
You can be a great marketer. You can work smarter, not harder while helping more prospects and producing more quality work. Here are 11 steps to getting your marketing plan on the road to success.
Free May Be Costing You
If you are planning on offering free or substantially discounted items, first consider the following.
Is TMI Killing Your Marketing Campaign?
Blabbermouth-communication will result in most people completely tuning your ads out – it’s just too much to digest at one time.
The Right Way to Fire an Employee
Before your business gets a bad rap, or worse yet faces a wrongful termination lawsuit, consider these four tips from small-business experts.
4 Moves to Make Now for a Profitable 2014
Here are 4 smart moves to make now to guarantee a happy and profitable New Year for your business.
10 Simple Steps to Online Marketing
Here are 10 ideas you can use to reach a wider audience online, increase traffic to your site and boost sales.
The Digital DNA Behind Holiday Shoppers
According to a recent study, each one of the more than 2.5 billion daily Internet users are “consumers wired with a certain digital ‘DNA.’” Here’s what you need to know.
7 Marketing Strategies You Need Right Now
Some of the most powerful business strategies and concepts come from marketing. And they can be applied to any individual, product or company. Here are seven to live by.



















