Back in August, we reported that eBay is expecting a 25% growth of million-pound businesses in the UK this year, with 159 companies surpassing the magic million milestone. 10% of these will secure over £3m in sales – that's a hell of a lot of padded envelopes, bubble-wrap and trips to the post office. In [...]

Read More: Meet the million-pound eBay businesses

Back in August, we reported that eBay is expecting a 25% growth of million-pound businesses in the UK this year, with 159 companies surpassing the magic million milestone. 10% of...

Read More: Meet the million-pound eBay businesses

By now, most businesses realize the tremendous marketing potential that lies within social media. We are often pointed in the direction of popular platforms like Facebook and Twitter, but the social realm has so much more to offer us marketers. While there are numerous options out there, many of which do the same thing more [...]

Read More: Why is Yammer Such an Excellent Communication Tool for Businesses of Any Size?

As a business owner, I understand the frustration of not being able to add prospective consumers or clients to your page. I'm sure you're tempted to create a simple profile (timeline) page for your business to help attract targeted individuals in your market, however, it is something that I would not recommend. In fact, not only do I not condone the activity, but if you create a Facebook profile (timeline) page for your business, you are in direct violation of Facebook's Terms of Use. Some of yo [...]

Read More: Facebook Business Page or a Profile Page for Your Business? Small Businesses Still Aren’t ...

Facebook may be in the news and on everyone's mind because of the new Facebook Timeline, but here's a new reason to be talking about the company. Today (September 26), Facebook, the National Federation of Independent Business and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce released a joint press release announcing their partnership. Their joint effort is ...

Read More: Facebook Partners Up to Help Small Businesses, Offering Up to $10 Million in Ad Credit

Facebook has teamed up with the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in an effort to help grow American small businesses and create jobs. Starting in January 2012, Facebook will give businesses up to $10 million in free Facebook advertising in the form of ad credits. The goal is to provide 200,000 businesses in the U.S. with a $50 boost.

Meanwhile, Facebook, NFIB and the U.S. Chamber will provide businesses with webinars, collateral, case studies a [...]

Read More: Facebook To Provide Up To $10 Million In Free Advertising For U.S. Businesses

The focus might still be on Facebook's new Timeline and media partnerships but today the world's largest social network has announced it wil partner with National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) and the...

Read More: Facebook to offer tools, resources and $10 million in Facebook Ads to boost U.S businesses

I was flipping through the channels early today and landed on a show I had never heard of before called Undercover Boss. The concept is simple – someone high up in management at a large corporation goes undercover, posing as a new worker in an entry-level position. At the end, their co-workers are surprised with ...

Read More: How Businesses Can “Go Undercover” Using Social Media

For years, Vimeo has been known as the underground creative alternative when it comes to video sites.  It has been a home for the artistic crowd, fostering a community where filmmakers, animators and video artists of all kinds could go for inspiration, praise and constructive criticism.  It has not been a home for business and commercial use.  Until this week.  Yesterday Vimeo launched a new service designed for small businesses.  Vimeo Pro is slated to compete with services like Sprout, Viddler [...]

Read More: Vimeo Launches Pro Service For Small Businesses

The Google Mobile Ads Blog provides interesting mobile statistics on their way to listing:Five mobile trends to watch and how you can get started today- 85% of mobile devices will be web enabled by 2012
- Mobile search grew by 400% in the past year
- 33% of search have local intent
- 59% of people visit a local store after searching for it on a mobile deviceHere are the five pieces of advice Google offers to businesses1. Create a mobile specific site
2. Make it easy for peopl [...]

Read More: Google’s Five Step Mobile Strategy for Businesses

Everyone's all abuzz and atwitter about Plus, the new social network from a search engine company with which you might be familiar. I won't break down all the features and how-tos and what-ifs, as other folks are better at that, including  Jason Falls and Chris Brogan. My initial, abbreviated take is that Google's new social

Read More: Why Google Has the Hammer To Make Businesses Use Google Plus

Everyone’s all abuzz and atwitter about Plus, the new social network from a search engine company with which you might be familiar. I won’t break down all the features and how-tos and what-ifs, as other folks are better at that, including  Jason Falls and Chris Brogan. My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social

Read More: Why Google Has the Hammer To Make Businesses Use Google Plus

Milestones keep checking in to foursquare, as the location-based mobile app followed up last month’s news that it had topped 10 million users with an announcement Wednesday that more than 500,000 businesses are now using the service.

Read More: foursquare Means Businesses … More than 500,000 of Them

Everyone’s all abuzz and atwitter about Plus, the new social network from a search engine company with which you might be familiar. I won’t break down all the features and how-tos and what-ifs, as other folks are better at that, including  Jason Falls and Chris Brogan. My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social

Read More: Why Google Has the Hammer To Make Businesses Use Google Plus