Read this article from Richard Laermer.

“Over the years creativity has been assigned a limited role in business in general and marketing in particular. For the most part agencies do not influence decisions that affect business beyond the little ones right when the objects are being brought to market. Only a decade or so ago a guy in advertising would have called himself a partner with his marketing client and nosed his helpful self into everything from new-product development to retail distribution.”

Read this article from Niche Titans

“A little known avenue for ranking even higher in your content is to look into writing reviews. This is not something to be overlooked because if your site already has authority, then your review content will automatically rank well. The reason for this is that most brands are not that well established online, so this is the perfect time for you to step in and give people what they are looking for- reviews, all leading them back to your site, of course. So if your site is selling women’s shoes, then start churning out reviews about new Nine West shoe designs, Steve Madden, you name it.”

Read this article from Lateral Action

“One of the buzzwords you hear a lot in the business world these days, is “Innovation”. Yes, it’s a genuinely worthy thing to aspire to. Genuine innovation creates lots of genuine value, every young intern knows this. Which is why people like to throw it around like confetti. It’s one of those words that sound good in meetings, regardless of how serious one is about ACTUALLY innovating ANYTHING.

Here’s some friendly advice for all you Innovation-buzzword fanboys: You don’t get to be more innovative, until you make yourself more creative FIRST.”

Read this article from Jijo Sunny.

“Blogs are the fastest growing class of websites on the internet. No longer the sole domain of teenagers and the love lorn, blogs are now an established form of internet communication.

The online business community has recently discovered the power of blogging, and as such are faced with raising the blog site’s ranking in the search engine results pages (SERPs). As a direct result of some of the blog characteristics, high search rankings are readily available for the careful blog writer.”

Read this article from Art Palaver

“These days Twitter is the shiniest object to drop in the murky waters of the internet. Recently it has reached a tipping point and has been experiencing huge growth. This has tons of folks scrambling to make money from Twitter, by writing books about Twitter, creating webinars and classes, writing software that will give you more followers, the list goes on and on. It also has a ton of folks scratching their head about Twitter. Which leads us to the real question for this palaver is how can Twitter help an artist?”

Read this article from Heather McDonald

“Can you use Twitter to promote your band, or is it just one more distraction? That all depends on how you use it. Find out how to use Twitter for your music career in a way that wins you fans.”

Read this article from Steve Nash

“Learning how to do business online can be very confusing. So can maintaining that hard-earned business know-how. That’s because, wherever you go online, internet marketing sites all claim to have the solution to your money-making woes. They all claim that their product, and only their product, has the answer. Or, worse still, freely available articles are everywhere, often contradicting other freely available articles.”

Read this article from Sisley-Blinn

“Twitter can be described as a micro-blogging tool that uses 140 character messages to contact others in the Twitter network and share ideas, experiences, resources, business opportunities, charity work, celebrity news, and more. For artists it is a good tool to network with other artists, follow art organizations, make gallery contacts, publicize your events, shows (#Encaustic: Artists on Twitter) , and work.”

Read this article from Kevin E. Houchin.

“I’m an intellectual property lawyer and by many accounts I’m pretty good at it. Lately I’ve noticed a trend. I’ve been watching the pace of innovation increasing exponentially while the legal tools I can use to facilitate and protect innovation get left farther and farther behind.”

Read this article from Dr. Simon Rosenberg.

“My Twitter Friend Joel J Roberts shared these 10 Twitter Commandments on his blog (his Twitter address is at the end of the post, so Tweet him and let him know you saw it on my blog).”