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0 ClickFuel provides internet tools to small businesses

As a web generation, when we’re looking for a dentist, plumber, or other small business, our first instinct is to go online when we need these...

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0 MerchantCircle Answers lets small businesses show off their expertise

MerchantCircle creates and manages profile pages for small businesses, and it says it has built a sizable user base and reached profitability earlier...

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0 What’s Next: a Wikipedia for small businesses?

Three years after Alexander Graham Bell spoke the telephone’s first words in 1875 – “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you” – the first phone...

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0 Roundup: Wheego to launch EV, Twitter battles porn, and more

Here’s the latest action:
Here Wheego! — Electric vehicle startup Wheego announced that it will launch its two-seat, low-speed car on August 1, in...

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3 When Google fails, the Internet fails

Here are eye-catching illustrations of why GoogleFail, this morning’s slowdown/outage of numerous Google services, was a Very Big Deal. Above, you...

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0 Nearly Half of Small Businesses Surveyed Have Profiles on Facebook and Twitter

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new online survey of more than 2,000 US small business by Internet2Go, an Opus Research advisory service, and...

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0 Smarter Food: How Social Media is Making Our Cities Tastier

The Smarter Cities series is supported by IBM. Read more about building a smarter planet on the IBM A Smarter Planet Blog.

Social media has certainly...

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0 Hyperlocal Business Directory MerchantCircle Launches Consumer-Facing Features

Hyperlocal business directory MerchantCircle has been steadily growing as an online network and business directory for merchants in smaller towns to...

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0 Should Twitter Crack Down on Pornography?

For marketers, Twitter has been a dream come true. It’s an open platform growing at a phenomenal rate. This combination can allow a single tweet to...

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0 Google's Fail Whale Effects on Website Traffic

As if we needed any more indication on the importance of organic search to our ability to drive local traffic, take a look at what today's Google...

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0 How To Do Local SEO in Five Minutes (Or So)

We're very excited to kick off our Guest Blogger Series with Andrew Shotland, a consultant and expert on local search optimization and small business...

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0 MerchantCircle Guest Blogger Series

As technology, the web, and the tools to drive more customers to your business evolve, we’ve compiled a group of experts in various fields to help you...

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0 The Case for Using Stimulus Dollars to Help Out Small Business Owners

We've just completed research here at MerchantCircle in partnership with Professor Samuel D. Bornstein of Kean University School of Business and Jung...

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0 Introducing MerchantCircle Moderator Joe Williams and Airbrush Gypsy!

In Columbia, VA, Joe Williams started Airbrush Gypsy as a side venture from his full-time job as a truck driver. His hope in 2005 was to someday give...

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0 How Do You Use MerchantCircle?

If you haven't checked recently, one of the newlyly created MerchantCircle Forum threads is "How-To-MerchantCircle." It's an excellent forum for...

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0 How Do I Create Good Content for the Search Engines?

As the Yellow Page and print industries collapse, more and more people turn to the internet to search for their goods and services. Dan Briody writes...

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0 Business Status Messages: What's on Your Mind?

If you haven't already noticed, one of the new features we rolled out was a "Status Box" for your merchant activity. It comes in handy when letting...

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0 Small Business Economic Stimulus Survey

Here are the results of our survey conducted from a pool of 700,000 local business owners spanning all 50 states from 2/19/09 to 2/22/09. About...

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0 Small Business Owners Saving Money By Leaving Print Advertising

MerchantCircle member Thom Millage of All Spotless Carpets was featured today on primetime news in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina. For...

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0 CE Pro Interviews MC Member Image Audio

CE Pro, a site for custom electronics installers, interviewed Nick Vecchioli of Image Audio & Video in Canandaigua, NY. Here is an excerpt of the...

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