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Outrageous Money Saving and Business Growth Tips One of the essential skills of successful entrepreneurs is the ability to think outside the box -- to be creative in solving problems or facing challenges. Recently the Small Business... Lowest Prices May Lose Customers: Retailers Still Win with Customer Satisfaction While the retail industry has been hyperfocused on pricing, the retailers who have continued to focus on customer satisfaction, like Amazon and Apple, have emerged as the winners in a... Reader Mail: Get Paid to Read E-mails and Take Surveys A reader writes: Scott: I am a stay-at-home mom with two young children. I'd like to earn some extra money online, but am not really sure how. Because of... After-Christmas Sales: Will Discounts on Discounts Cause Shopping Hangovers the Weekend After Christmas? Since "discount" was the name of the holiday retail game this year, the only thing left for the traditional Day After Christmas shopping event is discounts on discounts. One... E-gift Cards and E-gift Certificates: Best Last Minute Gifts for Desperate Last Minute Christmas Eve Shopping Every holiday season has its last minute gift shoppers, but this Christmas Eve there seems to be a lot more shopping being done by people who are a lot more... Motrin Moms Fiasco Exposes User-Hostile Web Strategy Over the weekend, an advertisement by Motrin posted on their website (and part of a larger ad campaign) raised the ire of a small, but vocal (via social media) group... Buy Online, In-Store Pickup: Multi-Channel Integration for Last-Minute and Snowbound Shopping A major winter storm is snowing and sleeting on the last minute deal parade of millions of American shoppers who had planned to start their holiday shopping this weekend. ... Top 10 Recession-Proof Holiday Bonus Ideas With the economy like it is, I'm sure there are many entrepreneurs thinking that they just can't provide the traditional holiday bonuses to their employees. While few things can top... Holiday Cyber Shopping 2008: M-commerce Upstages E-commerce at Wal-Mart, Amazon, Zappos, and Sears Although this year's shopping holiday season has already made history in many ways that we'd like to forget, 2008 will also mark the year that e-commerce lost “it” status to... Retail Industry Job Cuts: Is the Economy the Real Reason for the Season’s Layoffs? According to the U.S. Labor Department, there are 468,000 fewer people working in the retail industry right now than there were at this time last year. The job cuts... Burger King Whopper Virgins Controversy: Bad Taste Ads About Good Taste? The blogosphere is buzzing about the Burger King "Whopper Virgins" ad campaign. While most Americans have been busy trolling for jobs and outrageous holiday discounts, the Burger King people... 4 Simple, Surefire Business Ideas for a Bad Economy Entrepreneurship is the lifeblood of any growing economy. As we face possibly the greatest economic crisis in 80 years both here in the U.S. and globally, much of the immediate... Last Minute Cyber Shopping Deals: Online “Free Shipping Day” is December 18, 2008 Experts are speculating that there are millions of consumers who are purposely leaving some of their holiday shopping for the last minute this year in hopes that retailers will make... 2009 Will Be the Year for Small Business to... Over at Duct Tape Marketing (another of my 10 Most Practical Blogs for Entrepreneurs), John Jantsch asked several business authors and bloggers to complete the following sentence (in 140 characters... Online Retail Sweepstakes: Struggling U.S. Retailers Give Away Free Cars, Cash, and Hannah Montana in December You would think since the retail industry is practically giving away their merchandise this holiday season, that they wouldn't have much of a budget for genuinely free stuff in the... 2009 Retail Industry Predictions: Closing Stores, Going Out of Business, and Getting Back to Basics In 2009 large and small retailers will be hosting going out of business sales before closing their stores. This is predicted to happen as many as 200,000 times by... What's Your Story from 2008? Over the past year, I've had an increasing interest in the power of story. It's a form of communication that helps us connect on an emotional level. As such, it... Reader Mail - Due Diligence Help I received an email today from a reader facing a nice problem to have. It's a common one for entrepreneurs, because most of us aren't accountants, and many of us... The New Power Girls According to research from U.S. Small Business Administration: Women entrepreneurs are among the fastest growing groups of business owners. The number of women starting and owning businesses increased dramatically... Startup Stories #4 Welcome to the Holiday Edition of Startup Stories, my occasional roundup of first-hand stories by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs. And what better day of the year for stories than Christmas Eve?...
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