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Upcoming Small Business Event Roundup

April is going to be a busy month for small business events. I wanted use this article as kind of a resource to find information about small business-related events for the month. Upcoming events include: Small Business Marketing Unleashed

Spreading the Word About Kentucky Small Business Resources

This may not affect many of you, but when some small business news involving our home state comes through the wire, I feel it should be mentioned.The Non-profit Northern Kentucky Small Business Development Center has teamed up with KY-based PR firm Eisen Management Group to spread the word about its offerings.

Ways Online Forum Participation Can Benefit Your Business

Web forums can offer many of the same benefits to your business as social networks. In fact, I kind of tend to think about forums as the original social networks. They've been around and have been helping people much longer than MySpace and Facebook. You've got profile pages, private messages, and public conversation. Perhaps they don't typically have all the frills of a MySpace or a Facebook, but the general concept is there.

Do You Know About These Small Business Blogs?

Dave Cosper has put together a post called Best Small Business Blogs You Might Not Know About over at America's Best Companies.

When Disaster Strikes...

Are you prepared for the worst? A disaster can destroy or greatly impair your business at anytime. Hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, earthquakes, floods, etc, etc, etc.It's good to know your options and resources should such a thing occur. If you operate here in the United States, the Small Business Administration (SBA) is prepared to give aid in the event of a disaster.

Top Five SSL Certificate Providers

If you are running an eCommerce business, it is of vital importance that your customers feel comfortable in giving you their credit card information. Using SSL is a common way to ensure such security.

A Nice Tool For Reputation Management

I’m big on reputation management tracking. I have well over 50 Google alerts set up at any one time. I track my own name, company name, blog name, names of my employees, names of my competitors, company names of my competitors and even my articles. All via Google Alerts. So you know I had to be interested when I got an email about trackur, a new reputation monitoring tool from Andy Beal.

Shoeboxed Offers Receipt Organization Alternative

In an otherwise well-organized filing cabinet, my folder dedicated to receipts is a bit messy.  Receipts come in different shapes and sizes; they occasionally get crumpled or torn.  A company called Shoeboxed can help people sort them out.

Top 5 Marketing Methods for Brick and Mortar Businesses

Customers want convenience, good deals, and not to have their time wasted. Think about these three things before rolling out any marketing campaign. That said, the following marketing methods will get customers in your door.1. Local SearchMore and more people are turning to the Internet rather than the phone book to quickly find local businesses. It is extremely important for you to be able to be found easily.

Five Tactics for Popular Social Media Content

here are a lot of ways to get the attention of various social networks, none of which involve gaming the system. You may get a little temporary attention from some of the social networks if you try to game the system. But that is missing the point of social networking which is to spread interesting content and images of cats. Some of the ways you can create compelling content for the digestion of social networks are going to be straight forward.