Bring Your Business to Life–From Anywhere

Portable video projectors and display methods have long been a boon to small business owners looking to present to clients, speaking audiences and internal teams. Just one problem: Quality is often highly suspect when compared to traditional projection devices, and transportability isn’t always as effortless as one might hope from a mobile option.

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The Stimulus Plan: A Year Later

Veronica Rose, founder and CEO of Aurora Electric, a Jamaica, N.Y., electrical contracting company, has spent nearly 20 years successfully bidding on government contracts. One of the first women to obtain a master electrician’s license in a heavily male-dominated industry, Rose has worked on major projects at JFK International Airport and the World Trade Center. Her seven-person firm boasts a customer list that includes General Electric, NBC and Columbia University.So how much of the $787 billion in stimulus money that the government approved last year has ended up in Aurora Electric’s bank account

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Should Your Idea Pass Go?

A die-hard belief in one’s business or product has been the key to the success of many entrepreneurs and inventors. Generally speaking, I’m a strong advocate for determination and action, and the press is filled with stories of successful entrepreneurs who refused to give up. Less well-publicized are the opportunities entrepreneurs decided to pass up

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Give ‘Em Something to Crave

A tour through the New Belgium Brewing Company’s sunny, Fort Collins, Colo., headquarters starts with an invitation to taste what the company’s all about–literally.”We’re going to drink five beers this size over the course of the tour,” says tour guide Marie Kirkpatrick as she passes around 4-ounce glasses of spiced ale to the dozen or so visitors. “Is everyone OK with that?”Over the next hour and a half, visitors will not only get to taste five craft beers brewed on site, but also peer into the giant canisters where barley is cooked into beer, smell the fruit peels and spices that flavor the brews, and go for a ride down the corkscrew slide meant to remind employees to have fun

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Group, Fan Page or Both?

In today’s social media-driven marketing frenzy, online business owners are expected to be top in their game in using tools like Facebook and Twitter to their advantage.

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How to Spot Trouble on the Horizon

There was a time when starting a business required foresight, a business plan and some capital. Today, an entrepreneur can sketch an idea on the back of a napkin in the morning and have the business up and running by the afternoon.

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Viral Marketing for the Rest of Us

Viral marketing campaigns are internet word-of-mouth initiatives that use social networks to increase lead generation and brand engagement. They work across any online platform and easily scale from small to large, exponentially increasing their reach with little effort on the part of the marketer. Too often smaller organizations shy away from viral campaigns, assuming they are time-intensive and require big creative budgets.

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Share a Truck to Save a Buck

Obviously, we Americans love our cars. We’ve made movies about cars (think Cannonball Run or The Fast and the Furious ).

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The Myths and Realities of Internet Travel

These days, it’s hard to turn on the TV without seeing a catchy ad with a traveling gnome or a hovercraft, extolling the benefits of booking travel online.

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Working From Home Is Hard Work

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