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The Importance of Topics in Social Media

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Before Buying Into the Pinterest Hype, Follow this Flowchart

Every day businesses are being encouraged by their social media guru to get involved with Pinterest. It’s a boom social site that is picking up steam faster than any other in recent memory and has a ton of potential as a platform for networking, but is it right for business? Many experts are saying yes, but unlike Facebook, Pinterest is definitely not for every business.

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Our Small Business AppNation

If you weren’t aware, apps are huge. Most small businesses are using them to some extent, even if they don’t realize it. We stay connected through our mobile devices, of course, but there are literally thousands of other ways that apps are helping small businesses grow and be manageable.

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High Cost vs High Return: The Alley and the Valley Rule for Tech Companies

When you talk tech companies, the first place that comes to mind is Silicon Valley in San Francisco. It is the home of many of the giants, including Oracle, Google, and Facebook. New York City, aka Silicon Alley, is making moves as the new place to be as Wall Street and big money start taking note and investing into new and risky tech firms.

They’re the two places to be, but is it really worth it? In a world where transactions, meetings, and deals can be made instantly over the Internet, how important is it to be physically in one of the two centers of American technology?

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IT for Small Business: The Ins and Outs

Information technology is handled completely differently from one company to the next. Even in the same industries, the way that IT gets done can be dramatically different, usually as a result of budget constraints, personnel, or both.

This infographic by our friends at Intuit breaks down the shape of IT for small businesses and offers insights into solutions that may be beneficially, particularly for those who need to save while still remaining cutting-edge. Being small means being nimble, but it can also mean falling behind on technology.

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Franchising in America: Where We Are and Where We’re Headed

The history of America was changed forever once the franchising boom started up midway through the last century. Building a business had always been a staple of the economic freedom the country represented, but it was the ability to take a pre-existing brand and buy into a portion of it, running it as a branch or arm of a larger entity that truly fueled the growth of the economy and added an additional way for people to “live the dream.”

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