John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing has teamed up with Microsoft Office Live Small Business to provide a thorough e-book guide to social media for business owners. For businesses, social media is a new language that businesses have to learn, and Jantsch guides you through all the basics: blogging, RSS, search, social bookmarking, social networks, and microblogging tools like Twitter. [...]

This month’s Inc. magazine showcases the Inc. 500—the fastest-growing privately-owned companies in America. This is where companies like Zappos, Intuit, GoDaddy, Jamba Juice, Qualcomm, Timberland, Clif Bar, Microsoft, Patagonia, American Apparel, and many others have graduated from. This year’s CEO survey showed that 31% of Inc. 500 company CEOs maintain a blog or social network. Here’s what some of them [...]

WordPress is a free, open source blog publishing platform. There are freely hosted accounts available at WordPress.com, or self-hosted software available at WordPress.org (we deal solely with the latter). The platform was developed by Matt Mullenweg and a large online community of software developers, which means there is a lot of support available out there, plus tons of free themes [...]

It’s not easy being a student. Paying for tuition and books, rent, and the occasional entertainment, even if you are working, can be quite a challenge. But good news is here: you can build the skills to become wealthy while you are still a poor college student! You will need excellent financial IQ when you are the head of your [...]