7 things to stop doing now on Facebook

Take control of your information
You want to use Facebook, but you also want to keep your private information from being spread all over the Internet like wildfire. The key is to understand how Facebook works, where your information is stored, and how to navigate the site’s maze of privacy controls. If you accept Facebook’s default settings, you’ll likely [...]

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How to promote your business to the whole planet for FREE

Did you know that there are FREE ways to promote your small business? Wait, you DIDN’T know that? Well you are not alone. A new small business survey by Citibank found this to be quite the norm among small businesses.
Few small business owners and managers are joining the consumer trend towards increasingly using social networking [...]

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100 FREE Tools to Supercharge Your Business

The gurus at Inc.com have released a library of tools and templates for your business. With forms, job description templates, interactive worksheets, spreadsheets, and contracts, including 100 tools from DocStoc, you will find a business owner’s candy store of professional documents.
Business areas covered include: Start-up, Running a Business, Money and Finance, Leadership and Managing, Sales and [...]

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5 Business Lessons Learned from Undercover Boss

It was one of this year’s reality show standouts, beloved by viewers for the dose of schadenfreude they’d get by seeing executives fail at attempting the basics that make their companies tick. Undercover Boss took CEOs (such as 7-Eleven’s Joe DePinto, above) out of their corner offices and planted them as entry-level grunts in their own business. What ensued needn’t just be couch-potato fuel, though: We’ve compiled some notes so you can avoid these CEOs’ mistakes.

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Focus: Do one thing, better.

What is Apple’s secret?  They do one thing, better than everybody else.
Read on to see what Tim Cook, Apple Chief Operating Officer thinks about how Apple does it. Focus is critical in order to bring specific success to a specific enterprise.
Tim Cook (bio):
“Yeah, that is a great question. The executive team of the company [...]

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