Celebrate Small Business Week with Get Down to Business: a free, action-packed, nationwide series of business building events. Led by the industry's top experts in email and social media marketing, Get Down To Business is your kick-off for small business success. It's also your chance to meet and mingle with other small businesses and local influencers to learn: Proven tips and strategies for reaching your next great customer How to get existing customers to bring you new ones How to create engaging marketing campaigns And much more So whether you have all the customers you can handle or if you're looking for new ones, you'll find tons of useful info that will help you boost your bottom line in no time. Register now and receive ... Continue reading →

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240M smartphone users will stream TV by 2014: study By Lauren Johnson May 11, 2012 Consumers are watching TV on mobile Consumers are swapping out their television sets for mobile devices, according to a new study from Juniper Research. In Juniper�s �Mobile TV � What�s On� report, the research company looked at how consumers are using their devices to access TV content. In addition, the study looked at how revenue and subscriptions will contribute to the rise of mobile TV.�The main point for marketers is that mobile TV is growing in use and in just a few years, there will be a significant audience watching television content on a personal device,� said Charlotte Miller, research analyst at Juniper, Hampshire, Britain.�To ignore this would be to ... Continue reading →

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If I use the term “Ultrabook,” you picture a very particular kind of laptop, don’t you? It’s super thin, sleek, and light. It’s small enough to fit in a small shoulder bag or large purse…something very much like the Macbook Air. This is the image Intel has tried to cultivate for its Ultrabook brand. If you go to Intel’s own Ultrabook site, you see a rendered faux-laptop that could almost be mistaken for Apple’s. What about a 15.6-inch laptop that weighs as much as a Macbook Air, iPad, and smartphone combined? Would you call that an Ultrabook? Intel would. What is an Ultrabook, Really? Thus far, Ultrabooks have been really slim, with 11-inch or 13.3-inch displays. Whether you’re talking about the Dell XPS 13, the ... Continue reading →

You and I may be fully participating in popular social media like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, but I’ll bet your company isn’t -- at least as well as it could be. While these networks have exploded over the last few years for personal use (Facebook with 800 million users, Twitter with 175 million, and LinkedIn with 115 million), most businesses are at a loss for effective ways to engage with customers in this brave new world. And social media growth is showing no signs of slowing; newer networks such as Google+, Pinterest and Instagram have seen incredible growth in a matter of weeks. Social media has transformed the way we connect with each other. We all have a voice, and we make ourselves heard, sharing ... Continue reading →