I should understand, but I still don't...

It's "Hump Day", raining, and Twitter doesn't make sense. I can't do much about the rain or the fact that Friday is still two days away, but I can google some twitter tutorials. Everyone and their dog is tweeting these days and for good reason! Anyone from tweens to business professionals use this social forum for self or business promotion, so why not try to understand it? A necessary evil in my opinion, but nonetheless here I am. Follow this link "for newbs", and best of luck in your Tweeting!

5 Small Business Trends You Should Know About

If your products and services are available to consumers online, then there are some very clear ways to take advantage of the latest internet business trends. Take note of these five latest trends and let them work for you.

1. Fall in Love With Google

Even consumers looking for local companies with whom to do business search online first. In fact, eMarketer reports that 6 of 10 people looking for local businesses began their search online. This means ........

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Postage Cost

My company is dealing with the ever increasing costs of the USPS mail as they keep dumping their responsibility onto the business community. They are now pushing all the responsibility for keeping addresses current to the companies that send out direct mail. We now have more record keeping to do for return mail and then we have to keep for two years.

Using USPS to deliver mail will be more expensive and the delivery will get worse. I do not look forward to postage increases, an increase in the cost of postal equipment, having to devote so much attention to the training of in-house mail personnel, and the amount of paper-work that USPS will push on businesses. USPS wants M-F delivery to keep their losses under $20 billion this year.

If the government ever takes over health care I dread ever getting sick enough to go to a hospital and/or a doctor. I wonder if our experience with USPS would for-tell how our health would be managed by government bureaucrats?