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 So!  You've just started your own business.  Congratulations... now what?  That moment of relief once you've finally launched your own business can be quickly replaced with, "Now how do I stay in business?"  Dina Kaplan, co-founder of Blip.tv, shares some of her tips in a recent article for growing a small group of video bloggers to a site that thousands of users access to host and upload their shows to.

Augmented reality is the newest thing blurring the lines between what's real and what's virtual with some very useful marketing results. 

We know, we know, social networking is where it's at.  Or at least, that's what many companies who initially resisted the idea are beginning to realize.  This isn't just some passing fad like Ugg Boots or Chia Pets - social networking is here to stay, and companies need to learn to take full advantage of it to build their customer loyalty.

We understand that with the inundation of e-mails most people recieve on a daily basis, it's no wonder that we're becoming pickier about which ones we'll devote our precious time to opening and reading.  With the wealth of personal information, tastes and preferences available for everyone to see on the Internet now through blogs, social networking sites, and more, there's no excuse for marketers not to more carefully target different products to different consumer segments.  Behavioral researchers say that if large and small companies really utilized this data and segmented their message and audience, they could greatly improve their results and ROI, according to this article from Business Wire.