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The Office Space Debate [VIDEO]

I have this conversation with myself reguarly. Starting a business and watching it grow makes you want to properly display those smoke and mirrors by having a place for it to call home. It makes it feel so much more professional. So today I wanted to discuss The Office Space Debate and when it actually [...]

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How to Manage Your Brand’s Community Involvement

This post was written by a guest blogger. To learn more about them, check out the bio below. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Here’s a snapshot of the moment when I almost lost my cool and came this close to physically attacking someone in my shop. That is, if I were the sort to physically attack someone, which of [...]

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Fundable Introduces Crowdfunding for Serious Startups

Exciting news from my hometown of Columbus, Ohio broke this morning that serial entrepreneur Wil Schroter is introducing his latest project. And if you’re a new or struggling startup, you’re definitely going to want in on this. Fundable.com, a platform designed to crowdfund backing specifically for “serious startups”, launched today. You’ve probably heard of Kickstarter by [...]

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Why You Should Be at Ohio Growth Summit

I love my town. I really do. But what I love more about it is the fact that we have such a presence of really truly brilliant people in entrepreneurship and social media. I know… it’s not just me. One of the things that is a truly great representation of that is a local conference [...]

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5 Things I Learned About Self-Employment Taxes

I was DREADING getting my taxes done this year. It was my first time filing as completely self-employed and I knew every form, expense, and intricate detail of my financial life was going to be really important to note. Organization was key. Luckily, I found the perfect accountant for me to not only get everything [...]

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5 Reasons To Setup a Facebook Fan Page Fast

If kids, soon-to-be-adults and millions of not-so-young adults are your future audience, then you need to have a Facebook business page as you need to be where your audience is. And today, our children, teens, young adults and even older adults like my former roommates and my ex (who deny they are addicted to Facebook) [...]

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Scheduling Your Tweets Makes Social Media EASIER! [VIDEO]

Savvy Tip: Use Hootsuite to schedule tweets. Check out Chris Brogan’s video walk through of scheduling social media updates with Hootsuite’s new Publisher feature. Sexy Tip: How to’s are the mother of all blog posts. Get tips on this type of blog post and more from Social Fresh: 3 Blog Post Blueprints That Build Fans. [...]

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How (and Why It’s A Bad Idea) To Gain Followers With Auto Follow Back

From personal experience, using a program to auto follow back on Twitter is a great way to make your follower count go up. Weird huh? Because why would you get more followers by following back the people who already decided to follow you? I don’t know. But it works. This is something I tried and [...]

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