Image via Wikipedia "Service Above Self" is the motto of Rotary International, an organization in which I've been involved over the years. I love the motto because it is at the core of any act of service. Customer service, community...

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Twitter recently rolled out a new feature called Twitter Lists. It's a way for individual users to curate lists of people based on, well, whatever they like. For instance, you could make a Twitter List of entrepreneurs in your city,...
Topics: Web Strategy

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Image by nickwheeleroz (on holiday) via Flickr Information returns, like 1099 forms, are meant to help the tax system work by enabling the IRS to make sure that income gets properly reported. The IRS matches the information returns against 1040s...
Topics: Accounting/Finance

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Benjamin Franklin captured the essence of his era when he said, “In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.” Now, more than 200 years later, we can modernize his famous quote by simply adding procrastination to that list...

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In my last post, we defined viral marketing. This time we’ll explore what ingredients are needed to make it work. Although it often looks like it "just happened" -- that's not the case. There's almost always a game plan. The...

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