Whenever speaking at a seminar I harp on my audience to use social media to create dialogue with their connections.  The entire point of social media is to foster two-way conversation between users.  If you try to use social media to simply push out your message you will immediately be ignored or worse, ridiculed. So how do you create dialogue with you consumers?  Here are five quick steps: 1. ...

Looks like Small Business is finally getting some attention from Barack Obama and his administration. President Obama in recent days has signaled that he will be more vigilant at getting more lending help to small businesses and entrepreneurs, according to the Small Business Administration. This is certainly welcome news for all those small businesses out there hoping to expand their businesses. F...