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My time spent at Infusionsoft’s annual small business marketing conference, ICON14, consisted of being amazed by small business owner after small business owner. Daniel Kurt of Revenue Conduit was certainly no exception. The path that took Daniel on his journey is one that many of us face – he needed a better eCommerce solution for his small jewelry business, but nothing out there ‘fit’ what he needed. So while many would just try to fit the square peg in the round hole...
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ICON14, Infusionsoft’s annual small business marketing conference, left all who attended with some golden nuggets of information for how to better run and grow their business. One of the keynote speakers at this years conference was Peter Shankman, CEO angel investor and networking expert. Before Peter took the stage, Ramon Ray had a few minutes to chat with Peter on the art of networking. In the video, Peter shares his thoughts on networking and how good networking is helping and bad...
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You MUST be on top of the new of the day that affects your industry – regulations, competitors, complimentary companies, products, services and more. What are some of the best ways you can ensure you keep up to date on what’s going on in your industry. Here’s a list.

Google Alerts
Google Alerts is probably one of the easiest ways to get emailed alerts about keywords that popup online.

Smart Brief
Provides a great digest of news and tid bits in a variety of industries –...
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We already know how great Pinterest is for e-commerce sites, big brands and adorable babies, but what about local businesses? While Pinterest might not seem like the most obvious choice, with these 5 tips, a Pinterest page will be fully optimized for finding fans through localized search.
Danny Maloney, CEO of Tailwind (Pinterest analytics company) offers his advice below.
1. Add your location.
You've probably seen companies whose Pinterest accounts boast that they're from...
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Check out the latest edition of 3TechGuys Show - every Monday at 8pm EST.
Tonight Gene Marks, Brent Leary and Ramon Ray discuss Apple buying Beats (Ramon and Gene disagree), what’s happening during Small Business Week and why Ramon and Gene love CNBC’s The Profit and ABC’s Shark Tank. Watch the show below or here.
Watch the show and add your comments and thoughts to the discussion.
Check out Gene’s Forbes column tomorrow for his full take on Apple buying Beats!
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Happy customers make a happy business because these customers serve as your brand Ambassadors. They buy more and tell others.
The challenge for small business owners, assuming they’re delivering great service, is how to know what customers are very happy with your business and how to capture this awesome sentiment. It’s also important to know which customers are not happily being serviced.
Freshbooks recently upgraded its financial service to enable customer surveys to be integrated...
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There are hundreds of online services focused on helping small businesses get more customers or market to their existing ones. In this round up, I’ve put together over 26 of some of the more well known and/or mature ones that you might want to consider for your business. You’ll find some of these do one thing really well – like web site building. Others do a few things well – like web site building and email marketing.
Why did I do this?
Over the past few years I’ve...
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