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The official Twitter app for Windows 8 has been released and is now available on the Windows Store. The official Twitter app for Windows has been released, providing micro-bloggers and businesses with the ability to combine the functions of both. Available to purchase right now in the Windows Store,...

Guest post from Maria Ross, founder and chief strategist of Red Slice a branding and marketing consultancy based in the US. She is the author of Branding Basics for Small Business: How to Create an Irresistible Brand on Any Budget available on Amazon.co.uk The holy grail of social media (and marketing...

Most businesses today have some sort of web presence – even if it’s just a listing on a directory site like www.yell.com . (If you haven’t got yourself a website yet, do check out Office Live – it’s free!) But there’s a sense among marketing folk that whilst websites...

England football manager Fabio Capello has banned them during team meals. David Cameron has banned them from cabinet meetings. We're talking mobiles here of course. Etiquette is a tricky subject - what's acceptable to some is complete anathema to others, texting condolences on the death of a close...

Guest post from Maria Ross, founder and chief strategist of Red Slice ( www.red-slice ) a branding and marketing consultancy based in the US. Branding does not have to be some big expensive effort that only companies like Apple or Virgin can afford. If you run a small business, you need to spend time...

Welcome to some of this morning’s new MicrosoftSB Twitter followers. It’s always interesting to see who’s following us, so here’s a plug for the new UK small businesses. Below are the companies’ names and websites plus their Twitter ids with their own bios, which I’ve copied word-for-word. Socks...

We’ve got a great crop of new business articles on the Small Business website: 5 Time-saving tips with Outlook 2007 It’s question time! Cloud computing in a nutshell – technology terms disentangled 10 Top Tweets to follow Creating a web presence without breaking the...

Guest post from Emma Jones, Founder of Enterprise Nation and author of ‘Spare Room Start Up - how to start a business from home'. Working from home gives you the opportunity to set up an office that perfectly suits you and your business. Emma Jones offers her top four tips on creating the right environment...

Guest blog from Emma Jones, Founder of Enterprise Nation and author of ‘Spare Room Start Up - how to start a business from home'. Whether you're selling beaded jewellery or your time as an expert in finance, it's good for business to develop a community around you. Bonding customers to each other...

Social networking, relationship marketing, LinkedIn, Facebook, Bebo, and now Twitter. As the traditional forms of advertising are in rapid decline (in the news today is the 1,000 job cut at The Daily Mail group) so new ways of promoting your business are appearing. According to an article in Computer...