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Boomers Are One Third More Likely to Start a Business

Thanks to my colleague Jeff Apton, I recently discovered the report The Coming Entrepreneurship Boom from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. This study states that in the United States an entrepreneurial boom is looming; a boom created by baby boomers. Apparently, Americans aged 55 to 64 are more likely to become entrepreneurs than those aged

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Happy Canada Day

Today is Canada’s birthday and we’re 142. Right now, I’m on a train, somewhere between Toronto and Winnipeg. I’m on a three-week quest to see the western half of this country and visit a myriad of family members. Through the wonders of technology, I’ll be continuing to post business-related articles throughout my trip. However, I

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Facebook Wouldn’t Let You Reserve Your Fan Page Vanity URL? Do it Sunday

At midnight eastern June 12th, Facebook opened the doors for people to reserve their usernames as vanity Facebook URLs (I’m www.Facebook.com/AndreaStenberg). There was a fully of activity at midnight and many experts were amazed that Facebook didn’t crash as people rushed to reserve their own names. Meanwhile, many people rushed to reserve vanity URLs for

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Reserve Your Facebook User Name or Vanity URL

Unlike Twitter or LinkedIn, as I write this post Facebook does not have user friendly or Vanity URLs for members. On Twitter, you can find me at www.Twitter.com/andreastenberg. On Facebook it’s http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/profile.php?id=785250004&ref=profile. All this changes at one minute after midnight (your local time) Saturday June 13th. If you’re reading this on Friday June 12th, that’s

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Why I’m Helping People Get Started with Social Media Marketing

Since learning the ins and outs of LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, I’ve become something of a social media evangelist. I love using social media, I’m getting amazing results and I’m not shy about telling everyone about it. And social media use is exploding. If you believe the hype, everyone is using it. I’ve learned however,

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