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“Business school is general,” says Anna Urman, director of the Small Business Development Center at the Community Business Partnership, a resource center for entrepreneurs in Springfield, Va. “Often people go to understand how to manage a large enterprise, which is an entirely different undertaking than starting a micro-business from the ground-up.”
For those skills, programs such as Stanford’s D.School and the eclectic curriculum at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine are
It's been a few months since photo-sharing site Pinterest was all the rage in social media circles. Pinterest grew from seven million unique visitors in December 2011, to a high of almost 20 million in April, according to web traffic analysis service Compete.com. While growth has leveled off, use has remained consistent.
Pinterest is starting to deliver significant results for some small businesses -- even ones that aren't necessarily visually stimulating. Sure, posting pictures that people re-pin,
In any marketing campaign, one of the best ways to get higher conversion rates and generate more leads is to segment your messages by audience demographics. This had always been difficult to do on Facebook, but the social network recently announced the rollout of a new targeting feature that gives page administrators greater control over who sees which status updates in their news feeds.
This is a big win for savvy business owners and marketers. While updates previously could be segmented by country
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