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Amazon's new locker shipping service joins others offering customers more options.

Giving up paper and ink contracts can help make your business run more efficiently.

Facebook's newest tweak could mean reaching exactly the customers you're after without annoying the ones you aren't.

Consider these tips when creating strategic one-off pages to bolster your online marketing efforts.

Remember to take care of these five things when if you have to go out of business.

The newly established Global Daily Deal Association wants daily-deal providers to do more than just improve consumer and merchant perceptions.

With the nation's biggest retailers stocking their shelves with specialty items, the threat to mom and pop merchants is disconcerting. And while size matters, there are ways local retailers can take advantage of their less imposing presence.

No one visits your website for the express purpose of telling you how they think you're doing. They are there to see what you can offer them, not the other way around.

A new report finds that daily deals may perform better than previously thought.

The leaders of large companies are mostly avoiding social media. And they're missing an opportunity for their company's brand.

A federal agency for labor practices offers long-awaited guidance to employers on social-media guidelines at work.

The Federal Communications Commission is turning its attention to privacy issues surrounding the growing use by businesses of location-based services.

A look at how content-delivery networks can help small-business owners.

Happy hour pricing is now legal in Kansas thanks to a new state law. It's just one of many now taking effect with an impact on small businesses. We offer this sampling.

Forums and boards are popular with consumers. But one misstep by you or your brand and you could be tossed out.

Credits have always been confusing for the average Facebook user. Now that they're gone and subscription billing is available, more companies may want to consider trying f-commerce.

If you're paying bloggers and others online for endorsements or testimonials, be prepared for these new disclosure rules in the making.

Facebook's latest ad program allows businesses to retarget their website visitors on Facebook.

A look at the pros and cons of acquiring a new top-level domain name.

While the app store may have hundreds of thousands of apps, the mobile app space is still ripe with opportunity for new ones.

When traveling on business, you can sometimes turn an inconvenience into valuable business insights. Here are four from a recent lousy trip.

Facebook released a trio of highly anticipated features expected to make managing a Facebook page for a business easier.

It could happen in nearly any company: Employees sometimes go into business for themselves. It's so American it makes apple pie look suspect.

Small-business owners have a lot on their minds these days.

Openness, transparency and employee empowerment have become key to business success, a survey of global CEOs say. Social media can help you unlock it.

The future of gamification could include 'playbor' (play plus labor) and 'weisure' (work plus leisure).

Clicking the 'Like' button on a business, brand, organization or person's official Facebook Page may be grounds for dismissal.

State and federal legislation aimed at protecting freedom of speech is catching up with social media and employers.

Find out how your state and county compare to the rest of U.S.

Steve Jobs was many things, including a master storyteller. Presenting like he did isn't that difficult. You simply need to create and stick to a particular focus.