Keep on-the-Go Business on the Cheap + MORE

Personal finance expert and author Linsey Knerl tells AllBusiness.com about the best ways for home-based businesses to save money while building a fully functional home office.

Here are tips for staying connected and avoiding a huge mobile phone bill the next time you travel out of the country for business.

Whether tweeting as yourself or from a brand account, there are certain guidelines—let’s call them rules of the road—by which we all must abide. When people don’t follow proper Twitter etiquette, we all cringe, it’s awkward, everyone feels deflated, and you just look unenlightened…

Running a business is something that was once out-of-the-question for the vast majority of us. In order to start a company and begin turning a profit, you would need to have a lot of specialist knowledge, not to mention a brilliant idea, a hefty amount of capital and a team of staff that were willing to put their faith in you…

On Friday we learned that the U.S. added another 195,000 (seasonally adjusted) non-farm jobs in June. That was a bit better than expected, and another sign that the economic recovery may be, ever so tentatively, gaining speed. But it will take 12 more months like June just to get non-farm employment back to the level of November 2007…

During a recent “weatherbomb” over the Wellington region, a number of properties were without power for several days due to the large number of trees that came down in the storm and other storm related issues with the electricity supply. While this was disturbing enough for anyone in that situation given the inability to heat…
Read the full article here: Cloud backup services can keep your business working

The following is a guest post from my friend Jay Baer, based on his new book, Youtility: Why Smart Marketing is About Help not Hype.
Consumers are being subjected to an invitation avalanche, with every
company of every size, shape, and description asking people to like them,
follow them, friend them, click, share, and +1 them…

What is your company’s online reputation? This is one of the most critical questions that any small business owner could ever answer, and yet it’s one that leaves many of the most zealous entrepreneurs dumbfounded.
Perhaps a few words of explanation are in order. A company’s online reputation is essentially its online footprint — the sum of information that is found by consumers when they seek out the company via Google, Bing, online review sites, and social media platforms…