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Social Media Strategy: More Than Just Likes and Follows

Do you ever feel like your business is struggling to collect more follows, shares and likes? Does it seem like much of this social interaction is surface-level and ultimately meaningless? If your business is failing...

byJustin E. Crawford

June 25, 2018

The Best Kept Secret in Content Marketing: Steal What Works

Content marketing can be difficult for entrepreneurs for a number of reasons. The basics usually seem simple, but when it comes to creating value, things can become more complicated. Often, the number one question that...

byTyler Hakes

June 20, 2018

Author and Business Coach Pamela Slim on Growing a Business in 2018

Over the past 20 years, business coach and author Pamela Slim has helped countless businesses of all sizes problem solve and grow. She’s authored two business books, “Escape from Cubicle Nation” and “Body of Work: Finding...

bySusan Johnston Taylor

January 29, 2018

Hyperlocal Marketing: How to Find Your Local Tribe

Boosting income in your up-and-coming business can be tedious and full of challenges. Throughout the past several years, numerous organizations and small businesses have found that hyperlocal marketing is a useful way to gather neighborhood...

byJustin E. Crawford

October 17, 2017

20 Ideas About Money and Success That Will Spark Your Creative Genius

If you’re having trouble breaking out of a creative funk, here are 20 inspiring ideas that will help you reframe the way you think about money and success. Starting a business will not automatically improve...

byDaniel DiPiazza

October 12, 2017

5 PR Tactics That Might Be Destroying Your Startup

Media helps get the word out about your startup in order to build a more extensive community that can use your product or service. Particularly for smaller companies and startups competing on a large market...

byNora Leary

August 13, 2017

5 Reasons Why You Should Join the StartupNation Community Today

Have you joined the StartupNation community forums yet? It has been recently redesigned, with user-experience as our first priority. We are quite proud of the changes we've implemented. StartupNation provides the premier small business community...

byStartupNation

April 27, 2017

How to Create Long Term Value with Content Marketing

Creating great content is expensive. As many entrepreneurs quickly find out, it’s usually not as simple as just hiring someone to write content and then posting it to a blog. There’s no magic in words...

byTyler Hakes

February 28, 2017

The Ultimate Startup Hack to Boost Productivity

Two of the most popular questions that keep a CEO up at night: Is our team doing enough of the right things? And, are my employees happy? It’s no secret how vital it is to invest...

byJessica Navarro

August 12, 2016

7 Resolution Ideas For Every Entrepreneur

It's not too late to make resolutions - get some ideas here! It’s the start of the New Year and everyone has resolutions on their mind, trying to figure out what changes can be made...

byGerri Lazarre

January 23, 2015

Preview StartupNation’s New Community and Site

Hello from the engine room deep in the belly of StartupNation! We've been working on a major community upgrade and website re-release for the past year as some of your may know. I'm happy to...

byStartupNation

July 13, 2009

What three independent businesses would you miss if they disappeared?

I just learned about the 350 Project and thought I would share it out and ask everyone's opinion: 3 - Think about which three independently owned businesses you’d miss most if they were gone. Stop in...

byChristine Haskell

May 4, 2009

Do it…because it feels good.

Do it once a year. Do it once a month. Do it twice a week. Pro Bono, I mean...what were you thinking? Especially in this time, when things are tight for everyone, time...

byChristine Haskell

April 20, 2009

Show Customer Love: Co Donate

In a previous post (Giving is the new taking), I asked the question: What are some ways you are being kinder to your customers? The terms social responsibility is often used synonomously with charity and volunteering with good...

byChristine Haskell

March 11, 2009

Getting Back To Basics: Lessons From My Interviews

When I first started social venture labs, I drew inspiration from companies who were classic examples of triple bottom line organizations like Burt’s Bees and Life Is Good. The owners of these kinds of companies...

byChristine Haskell

September 15, 2008

Entrepreneurs Love Pizza!

The new StartupNation “Capture the Flag” Contest is giving out daily prizes and the first prize was $100 of pizza from the winner's favorite pizza joint. This could be our most popular promotion ever!! A...

byJoel Welsh

January 31, 2007

How to Ask for a Proper Website Critique

I never, never, ever ceased to be amazed by the intelligence that rises forth from a properly engaged community. The wisdom of crowds is a popular topic of intriguing evaluation these days and you can...

byJoel Welsh

January 2, 2007

A day in the life of StartupNation’s chief community officer

Want to know what happens behind the scenes here at StartupNation? Let me tell you what's in store for me today, a fairly typical day although no two days are the same. My cell phone...

byJoel Welsh

February 10, 2006

TOP SECRET: Entrepreneur forum on steroids

I care what you have to say. Now that's a pretty bold statement. Well, let me prove it to you. The StartupNation team is feverishly working on a top secret initiative that I'm not going...

byJoel Welsh

February 2, 2006