IRS Stakeholder Liaison presents: National Phone Forum Everyone’s at Risk – Combating the Increasing Threat of Online Fraud and Identity Theft Date: August 19, 2009Cost: FREELocation: The convenience of your home or officeThis IRS phone forum is for: • Tax professionals• Attorneys• Payroll professionals• Industry partners• Small business organizations• Small business owners• State and local…
Now is a great time to be growing your business. Really! Most other businesses, big and small, are still hiding. That means it’s time for contrarians like you and me to move ahead. I talked about this at the Oklahoma Entrepreneurs Conference, so I’m glad that My Venture Pad contracted me to help promote SAP’s…
People from all over the world, from a huge variety of industries, came together in New York with only a common language and common tool: Twitter. That’s bizarre. But that’s the 140 Characters Conference, created by Jeff Pulver (@jeffpulver). Aliza Sherman did a terrific job of capturing a flavor of the conference in her summary…
At the Rural Partners of Michigan, I met some wonderful folks. Maybe you saw some of the live-tweets with the tag, #ruralconf. Together, we launched a whole new group of Twitter users and social network participants. Here are the folks from the conference who I’ve found so far: AlHooper / Allan Hooper, conference chair BL5GR7…
Ready to spread the word about your town or tourism attraction? Maybe you want to run a “fam” or familiarization tour. That’s what Hutchinson, Kansas, is doing today. The usual fam tour targets travel agents, tourism consultants, tour operators, or others who can send direct customers to your town. But Hutch is targeting bloggers.We may…
Why are we sharing the farmers market webinar? We get quite a few searches on farmers markets. Local foods are a huge trend in small town business. Their next two topics are finding your target market and youth entrepreneurship. Here’s the info from the nationwide eXtension group: Tips and Tricks for Successful Farmers’ Markets On…
Today, Liz and I have launched the “Blog It, Earn It” discount promotion – it’s a chance for folks to get a $200 discount off the $795 full conference price if they put up a post about what the “ROI of Relationships” mean to them. Terry Starbucker Hurry, and get the important details from Terry. …
Two great small business events online today (Feb 10, 2009). Take advantage of these opportunities to learn and share. 1. SOBCon09 Comment Box Conference 12 Hours An Expert Every Hour and Q and A for 12 HoursWhen: Tuesday, February 10, 2009Where: Successful-Blog.comWhat: New Post and Speaker Every Hour11:00 a.m. – 10 p.m. CT (GMT -6hrs)Watch…
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