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Article Index by Category

Marketing and IM

• Tips for a Tough Economy: Marketing on a Small(er) Budget
• Pay-per-Click (PPC) for Small Companies: Still a Bad Idea
• New Rules for Direct Email Marketing
• A New Definition of Marketing for Small Companies?
• 6 Reasons to Stop Using Direct Mail
• The 5 Biggest Lies in Internet Marketing
• Internet Marketers: The New MVPs for Small Companies
• The 12 Essential Sections of a Great Marketing Plan: Free Template Included
• Four Marketing Technologies That Are Ruining the Internet
• Is it a Lead or Not? A Marketer’s Guide to Communicating with Sales
• Strategic Self-Promotion: 8 Rules for Marketing Yourself Internally at Your Company
• When Customer Input Doesn’t Matter: The Myth of Measuring Customer Satisfaction
• 4 Ridiculous Myths About Small Company Webinars
• 5 Ethical Ways to Grow Your Corporate Email Database
• 9 Ways to Increase Your Small Company Website Traffic
• 9 Reasons Your Marketing Communication Lacks Credibility

SEO

• The Importance of Blogs for Small Company Web Traffic
• Inexpensive SEO Strategies for Small Company Websites: Part I
• Inexpensive SEO Strategies for Small Company Websites: Part II
• Inexpensive SEO Strategies for Small Company Websites: Part III
• Inexpensive SEO Strategies for Small Company Websites: Part IV
• Universal Search: Still Relevant for Small Companies?

Social Networking

• Simple Definitions of Social Media and Social Networking
• Real-World Benefits of Twitter for Small Companies: Part I
• Real-World Benefits of Twitter for Small Companies: Part II
• 5 Unbreakable Rules for Using Twitter as a Business Tool
• Social Bookmarking: Dos and Don’ts
• 17 Great Reasons Why Professional Marketers Hate Twitter
• 57 Things That (Sort of) Increased My Twitter Clickthrough Rates
• The Myth of Social Networking and Revenue Generation
• Marketing Tool Review: SocialOomph, The Social Media Productivity Booster
• 5 More Unbreakable Rules for Using Twitter as a Business Tool
• Article Marketing on Twitter: The Art of the Retweet
• Social Marketing Automation: An Interview with the CEO of Buzzom
• An Interview with Buzzom CEO Bhupendra Khanal (Part 2)
• 5 Free Twitter Tools for the Busy Small Company Marketer
• Twitter for Small Business: An Interview with Shannon Evans
• What Does a Social Marketing Manager REALLY Do?

Blogging

• The Importance of Blogs for Small Company Web Traffic
• 7 Reasons Why I Suck at Blogging, and What I’m Going to Do About It
• How I Became a Mediocre Blogger for Only $9.95 per Month
• Adsense, WidgetBucks, Commission Junction and Amazon: A Side-by-Side Affiliate Review
• 15 Things I Did When My Blog Was Hacked: A Comprehensive Recovery Plan
• 5 Visually Appealing Plugins for the Lazy Blog Designer
• 6 Blogging Lessons I Learned the Hard Way

Management, Strategy and Mistakes

• Small Company Mistake #3: Not Building a Shared Corporate Vision
• A Hiring Manager’s Guide to Small Company Interviewing
• Small Company Mistake #4: Over-Reliance on Vendors and Consultants
• Five Ownership Mistakes That Kill Small Company Growth
• Small Company Survey: 5 Signs of a Healthy Organization
• Dirty Negotiating: Yet Another Walmart Corporate Standard
• The 4 Critical Differences Between Large Companies and Small Ones
• The REAL Reason Banks Won’t Lend Any Money
• 4 Reasons Your New Business Will Thrive in a Bad Economy
• 3 Traps to Avoid When Starting Your Own Small Business
• The Five Hidden Ways Small Companies Waste Money
• 33 Changes for the Small Company Manager
• 5 Ways to Immediately Improve Your Small Company Operation (Guest Post)
• The Most Alarming Trend in Small Business
• Myron Mixon: Business Secrets from a BBQ Entrepreneur
• 5 Unique Traits of Great Small Company Employees
• The Key to Catching (and Passing) Your Market Leader
• 7 Reasons Your Employees Might Hate You
• 5 Survival Tips from Successful Small Company Managers
• 6 Critical Mistakes All Small Company Managers Must Avoid
• 4 Pricing Mistakes You Need to Stop Making
• 4 Pricing Strategies That Work for Small Companies

Career Development

• Why Do I Work for a Small Company?
• 3 Tips for Finding (and Getting) a Small Company Job
• 15 Signs You Might Lose Your Small Company Job
• 5 Job-Related Lies You Might Be Telling Yourself (Guest Post)
• 5 Secret Resume Killers Every Hiring Manager Looks For

Self-Publishing

• Authors: 5 Reasons to Self-Publish Your Next Book
• Self-Publishing: A Simple and Inexpensive How-To Guide
• Authors: 6 Other Things to Do with Your Book Idea

Miscellaneous

• Book Review: What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People
• 9 Signs You’re Involved in a Pyramid Scheme
• Reality TV: 7 Underrated Shows You’re Probably Missing

About This Article Index

At THEsmallCOMPANYBLOG, we do our best to crank out at least two new article per month, on various issues that affect small companies. Sometimes we get a little distracted, but hey—you can’t write about business all of the time. If you would like to republish any of these articles on your own site (all articles have been professionally keyword optimized for SEO purposes) please send me a quick email at eric@thesmallcompanyblog.com and let me know two things: 1) which article you want to use, and 2) where you plan on using it. Republication is free . . .  but you still need to ask. Also, Social Bookmarks are as good as currency around here, so if you happen to like one of our articles a Retweet, Facebook Share or LinkedIn Share would be very much appreciated.  Handy little buttons are always provided for each. . . . all you need to do is click them.