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Russia 'is now a criminal state', says Bill Browder

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How Your Small Business Can Grab the Green Business Spotlight

This blog is written by a member of our expert blogging community and expresses that expert's views alone.

The green entrepreneurs I speak with every day have great stories to tell about their phenomenal work saving resources, cleaning our energy, and creating a better world. These stories do more than entertain; they get attention and bring in business. Telling your story is one thing, but making sure that it’s heard is another. Tools ranging from PR to Twitter can deliver your message, each with their pros and cons, and services like 3BL Media can amplify your story to reach more eyeballs and get noticed.

The first step is paring down your message to be crystal clear, making it as short and simple as possible. The value of clarity is often overlooked; clarity helps the message to stick, and also helps entrepreneurs to better understand their own business.

The next step is finding tools to deliver the message to the right eyes and ears. The tools to boost your business visibility include:

1. Blogging – Blogging doesn’t cost anything and can connect you to large numbers of people, but it does take time and it’s not for everyone. For blogging to attract an audience you need to post frequently, probably at least once a week. This may not sound like much, but the entrepreneurs I know are incredibly busy people.
2. Social networking –Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube are free and potentially powerful ways of making connections, but they are also full of noise. The great hope is that your post will go viral, taking on a life of its own, but your content will usually need a big push to stand out and get noticed.
3. Partnering with media distributors – If you already have content and want it to reach more people, services like 3BL Media amplify your message through high profile distribution to a big chunk of the CSR world.
4. Ads – Ads on the internet can be highly targeted based on demographics of websites. An ad campaign does cost money, and the time to keep an eye on what is working, and not working.
5. Public relations – PR can be immensely powerful; getting others in the media to talk about you can provide credibility. It usually takes connections and time to make this happen, and the efforts of a paid professional.

For entrepreneurs working on tight budgets, free tools like blogging, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook can be very attractive. Small businesses are often so focused on their business and so cash strapped these days that they have little money for marketing. Free social networking tools can accomplish a lot and should be used as much as possible, but they can’t always do the whole job on their own. Public relations efforts provide a big boost with the right investment of time and money, although some businesses find it’s more than they can invest today.

http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/glenn-croston/starting-and-growing-green-businesses/how-your-small-business-can-grab-green-busiThis blog is written by a member of our expert blogging community and expresses that... more

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Elizabeth Warren's new model for Wall St.: 'If you can't explain it, you can't sell it'

In Elizabeth Warren's world, credit card contracts would be so simple a teenager could... more

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Fareed Zakaria: Is American Innovation A Thing Of The Past?

Innovation is as American as baseball and apple pie. But some traditions can't be... more

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Coming Soon: Jobs!

Why employment will rebound sooner than you think. http://www.slate.com/id/2235477/

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FDA Questions Safety Of Alcoholic Energy Drinks

The Food and Drug Administration is challenging makers of alcohol-infused energy... more

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50 CENT FILES LAW SUIT AGAINST WORLDSTAR HIPHOP

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Will Credit Raters Dodge Change...Again?

Despite being blamed for billions in lost investments, the big three credit rating... more

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Senators Propose Bill Allowing State Gambling Laws To Apply To Derivatives

Derivatives Just "A Sophisticated Form Of Gambling," U.S. Senators Say; Propose Bill... more

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Why Does Dunkin' Donuts Lobby The Federal Reserve?

Financial firms have long lobbied the Federal Reserve, high-minded maker of monetary... more

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Big Pharma's Crime Spree: Drug Makers Pushing Products For Unapproved Uses

Pfizer and Lilly lead a parade of U.S. companies that have paid $7 billion in... more

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Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein: "I'm Doing God's Work."

Goldman's reputation is suddenly as toxic as the credit default swaps and other... more

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"Got MILF?" T-Shirt Makers Sued By "Got Milk?" Creators

Talk about a serious lack of sense of humor: The dairy producers behind the ubiquitous... more

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Wall Street gets Swine Flu Vaccine while High-Risk Groups are Struggling to get it

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Before Presenting Get Buyers To Agree To Thier Buying Criteria

By Sharon Drew Morgen When sellers stand in front of prospects to present, they... more

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Business Networking sites see 18% rise in Female members

The largest growing economic force in the world isn't China or India -- it's women, and this is matched with online usage – says Meettheboss.com study.

The largest growing economic force in the world is not China or India it is Women. The earning power of women globally is expected to reach $18 trillion by 2014, a $5 trillion rise according to World Bank estimates. That is more than twice the estimated 2014 GDP of China and India combined. Although the average women still earns only 77 cents for every dollar men do this is set to grow as more and more women are finding themselves in board rooms.

Such career advancement has brought the female workforce online to share ideas and best business practices. MeettheBoss.com (a world leading online business network) has shown an increase of female sign-ups of 18% from this time last year.

“It is fantastic to see so many women embrace the technology and use it to their advantage, every day I see more and more online” Harlan Davies, MeettheBoss director.

MeettheBoss maintains that the site will not be making any changes for the rush of its new female members “The current way companies appeal to women is to take a male product and paint it pink but this is both patronizing and unnecessary, our members are extremely powerful business people and would not rise to such gimmicks”

The site boasts innovative connectivity amongst peers with an internal Video Conferencing tool as well as Instant Messaging, forums, blogs, tweets and up to the minute news fed individually to each user based on their unique business interests. This sophisticated online aggregation has been popular to the sites members and has seen leading business women such as Isabelle M. Conner Global Head of Marketing ING Group, Dr Anne Phillips, Medicine Development Leader, GlaxoSmithKline and Joanna Young Human, SVP, Liberty Mutual take the limelight and give online presentations to the entire community through MeettheBoss TV on their views of best business practices.The largest growing economic force in the world isn't China or India -- it's women,... more

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"Showdown In Chicago": Protesters Crash Bankers Convention, (VIDEO, IMAGES)

Via National People's Action, here is some footage from the protesters at the ABA conference. From the footage, it's clear there are some strong emotions from the protesters.

At one point a protester grabs a megaphone and says:

"The American Bankers Association has helped loosen the rules that protect us, allowing the unfettered greed that has brought us to the brink of a recession. And for those bankers who are members and support the ABA's war against the working and middle class, shame on you!"

The crowd soon begins chanting "Shame On You!" in unison.

Via Progress Illinois' Twitter feed, here's more video of Sen. Durbin's speech. In this section, he calls for a "showdown" with Wall Street.

According to the Twitter feeds of National People's Action and the SEIU, the protesters are headed to the ABA's "Roaring '20s"-themed cocktail party. (Perhaps the ABA is not aware of the irony of having such an event.)

Sen. Dick Durbin spoke in front of the protesters earlier today. Here's a clip from the video, in which Durbin tells the story of homeowner who was struggling to stay in her home -- and was apparently talked into agreeing to a seemingly atrocious mortgage. The woman's mortgage was riddled with hidden fees and by, "the types of things even a Wall Street lawyer couldn't explain to anyone," Durbin said.

The American Bankers Association's annual convention in Chicago has become the scene for a series of major protests, which are set to continue through Tuesday. Dubbed "the Showdown in Chicago." (http://www.showdowninchicago.org/index.html) (Check back here frequently for updates on the protests.)

Groups like the National People's Action, the Service Employees International Union, Americans For Financial Reform and the AFL-CIO are expected to turn out with thousands of protesters. Sen. Richard Durbin (D - Illinois) is scheduled to address the protesters Sunday evening. Conference speakers include Newt Gingrich, conservative columnist George Will and FDIC chairman Sheila Bair.

Check out these photographs of the "Showdown in Chicago," taken by organizers of the protest.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/25/showdown-in-chicago-prote_n_333245.htmlVia National People's Action, here is some footage from the protesters at the ABA... more