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Personal business lessons from 2015 and what you can learn from them

Mars Dorian reveals top personal business lessons from 2015 and shares what you can learn from his mistakes.

Crowdfunding 101: Testing the Waters with TeeSpring

Crowdfunding is a huge commitment of time and resources–and a gamble. Here’s how to use TeeSpring to test your odds of success.

No one cares about what you know, until they know you care

By Mark Masters, {grow} Community Member No one cares about how much you profess to know or how good your business is. What matters is that you care about something […]

How to be useful, despite your smartphone addiction

Are you a slave to your smartphone? Mars Dorian has three simple tips to help you break fre

Four key marketing lessons to propel us into 2014

By Kerry Gorgone, {grow} Contributing Columnist 2013 is over. What are the key marketing lessons from that year that will help propel our efforts into the New Year? From Jay Baer’s Youtility to […]

Unusual writing advice from a person who shouldn’t give writing advice

Learning English as a second language forced the author to break the language in order to create something fresh. And the robots are coming.

The ultimate guide to blogging when you don’t have time to blog

This is a blog post for anybody who has trouble finding the time to blog. In other words, everybody. I humbly submit a few practical ideas to help you become […]

It worked for Zappos. It probably won’t work for you.

Zappos* is a successful company with a well-publicized, aggressive employee use of social media. In fact, it may be the most famous social media model in all of blogdom. They have 13 blogs, […]

8,000 Twitter followers. Now what?

Something amazing has happened. I have nearly 8,000 Twitter followers in eight months. How does somebody maintain a meaningful presence on Twitter with a crowd like that? I’m a work in […]