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Here are our useful links for March 13th, 2009:

• Stop Behaving Like Cattle! – People are cattle. This does not mean that an individual person can’t think on his or her own. This simply means that the general population behaves like a herd of cattle.
• Nine steps to Powerpoint magic – Very good points about presentation techniquess.
• Best Small Businesses to Start – Money – A list of small businesses for budding entrepreneurs in 2009
• 5 Most Overrated Small Businesses – Money – The title tells the story.
• Interview with John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing – John Jantsch opens up on how and why he went into the small business marketing arena.

Here are our useful links for February 21st, 2009:

• Is your behaviour damaging trust? – Great list covering just about everything in relationships both in the workplace and in private life.
• The secret to good writing isn’t commas; it’s simplicity – A good primer on writing.

Here are our useful links for February 17th, 2009:

• How Color Choices in Stores Can Influence Your Shopping Decisions – Color is believed to be one of the most powerful elements of design for web sites, direct mail, ads, and other marketing materials.
• B2B Marketing for $100 – B2B Marketing and Sales Tip #173 – A good list of marketing tools for minimal cost
• How You Can Leverage Lay-Offs – Starting Your Own Business – Entrepreneur.com –
• Which comes first, the product or the marketing? – If someone comes to you with a 'great' product that just needs some marketing, the game is probably already over.
• Road To Becoming A Rich Idiot – The title speaks for itself.
• The Relationship Between Color And Sales – Understanding that color influences the way a buyer behaves.
• Short-Term Loans 101 – Everything you wanted to know about short term loans

Here are our useful links for February 2nd, 2009:

• 10 Ways Social Media Will Change in 2009 – ReadWriteWeb – Social media today is a pure mess: it has become a collection of countless features, tools, and applications fighting for a piece of the pie.
• Tom's Sixth Law – Always talk it out. In so doing you get to the heart of your problem.,
• 10 great quotes from 10 great people – Some interesting perspective from 10 successful business people.
• New Local Search Listing Resource – Something of interest to the small business.
• 10 Advantages of Being a Young Entrepreneur – Nice write up
• Entrepreneur Tip #1: Start An Internship Program – Very good write up on starting an internship program for a company.

Here is our list of useful links for January 22nd, 2009:

• The Best Decision Doesn’t Always Make The Most Financial Sense – Getting your finances together and winning financially doesn’t always make sense. In fact, sometimes, it defies financial logic.
• Defining an Entrepreneur – What is an entrepreneur?
• 9 Golden Rules of Investment – Start as early as you can in your investment game. Time is a great multiplier. If you make sound investments early in your life, you are sure to make some money later on with no exceptions.
• Is Obama A Relationship Economist? – Just like money, the change in our relationships induces an incentive or disincentive to behave a certain way. For better or worse, incentives will reflect reality rather than reality reflecting the incentives. That’s a game change
• 7 Simple Steps to a Clutter Free Home Office – Good advice for keeping the clutter in your office in check.
• Do It Yourself Debt Consolidation – If you want to get out of debt, these steps can help you accomplish your goal more quickly and efficiently. Remember the key is to change your spending habits and not go further into debt, otherwise, your debt repayment plan will fail.

Here is our list of useful links for January 21st, 2009:

• Success and failure are the hero and sidekick – It speaks for itself.
• You Don't Need an SEO Expert! – Because all of the money spent on search engine optimization by small to mid-size businesses is unnecessary and it’s a racket.
• Click here to find out more! Next Post Previous Post Trends for Rural Small Businesses in 2009 – Being in business in a small town or a rural area is different from being in a metropolitan area. Your local economy is certainly different from the national big picture. That’s why rural small business needs its own list of trends for 2009.
• 5 Recession Business Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make – Cost cutting is a natural response to uncertain economic times, and done properly, it can certainly help your small business stay profitable. But some of the things you're thinking of jettisoning are too valuable to lose.
• Jim G, Mr. Detroit, and a Saloon Fight: What Makes You a Fiercely Loyal Customer? – My dad cared about the people who were his customers and so they cared about him. He looked out for them and they looked out for him. Investment made investment returned. It’s the ROI of relationships — in spades.

Here is our list of useful links for January 20th, 2009:

• Some of the biggest Domain Sales ever! – If you have a domain name saved, you might want to pay attention to this post.
• Descent Into Dumb iPhone Apps: Now You Can Have Your Own iGirl – Here we go. Now you can finally have that girl be where and when you want her.
• IT as bad as Red-Tape for Small Business? – Small businesses should not spend time trying to learn computer skills
• Sox First: Beware of Twitter: lawyers – The lawyers see an opportunity in Twitter. Here we go!
• What I Don't Know – The things we don't know could be holding us back from success in our business.

Here are our useful links for January 17th, 2009:

• 25 tips by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs – A worthwhile list of tips for the budding entrepreneur.
• Personal Branding: Be Aware of Your Pigeonhole – It’s Hard to Switch – When its time to change our lives it might be difficult to get people to think of us differently because they have already pigeon holed us over time.
• The Power of Gradual – How taking it bit by bit, ever so slowly adds up.
• The Power of Less: Changing Behavior with Leo Babauta – How to change your behavior by doing less.
• The Margin Manifesto: 11 Tenets for Reaching (or Doubling) Profitability in 3 Months – A great list for start ups
• Charmin Kicks Butt – In rolls Charmin with what amounts to a public service as much as a branding campaign.

Here is our list of useful links for January 15th, 2009:

• HELLO, my name is BLOG!: The Hangout Factor: 16 Secrets for Leveraging Local Networking – Great advice for the SOHO type.
• LINK BAIT and COMMUNITY – A fresh look at this topic from a Twitter point of view.
• Change.gov – Speak your mind | Business in General – Share your ideas on any issue facing the new administration, then rate or comment on other ideas. The best rated ideas will rise to the top — and be gathered into a Citizen’s Briefing book to be delivered to President Obama after he is sworn in.
• Brief Obama With Salesforce.com’s Idea Generator – Have a good idea for the President, try this

Here is our list of useful links for January 14th, 2009:

• Six Ways Entrepreneurs Can Cope With 2009 – An entrepreneurial view of coping with the new year.
• The Entrepreneurial Generation – Know your audience or what you think is the best campaign can immediately backfire on you
• Google Giveth, and Taketh Away: Google Video, Notebook, Catalog Search, and Dodgeball to Shut Down – ReadWriteWeb – Google tweaks its offerings
• The Art of Execution – And the next question is, “How do we deliver?” This is where the art of execution comes in, and in times like this, you either execute or you die—no pun intended.