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Tans for Teddy Bears to Benefit the Kids at All Children’s Hospital

There’s only 10 short days until Christmas. Yes, for all of you late shoppers out there… ONLY 10 days until Christmas. As Christmas quickly rushes up on us it means it’s time for another benefit to surprise the kids that will be spending their Christmas at All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. Every holiday [Continue Reading]

I Don’t Understand featuring President Obama

I really don’t do enough writing and ranting about politics, I really should since it’s such a hot button, comment grabbing topic most of the time. Anyway. Now, instead of going bananas and ranting about how useless and clueless I think Obama and his henchmen are, I’ll refrain. No, I won’t say anything about his [Continue Reading]

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No Small Business Saturday, It’s a Relapse

I bet a few of you that read my blog on a daily basis are thinking that I’ve lost my mind. How can I possibly chatter and preach so much about small business, then turn around and say something crazy like, “No Small Business Saturday”. Stay calm, I can explain. Long before American Express Small [Continue Reading]

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Business Blitz: Thanksgiving Edition

Okay, so you know the deal with the business blitz feature here at Extreme John, but this morning I have decided to forgo the usual small business news feature simply to say happy thanksgiving. I hope you all get to spend time with those that you love and take a moment to truly be thankful [Continue Reading]

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Now I hear about things that happen on Facebook on Google+ and Twitter

It’s a true story. I never really spent much time relying on Facebook for my incoming news. I typically leave that to NetNewsWire and Twitter, that’s up until a few months ago when Google released their social networking site, Google+. I’m not going to get into a big thing explaining what Google+ is, do a [Continue Reading]

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How to Apply for Access to HootSuite Google+ Pages

News is starting to funnel through the social interwebs that HootSuite, a social media manager for business users can now post and monitor Google+ brand pages. I have mixed emotions about HootSuite connecting with Google+ as a manager for the growing social networking site by Google. Somewhere in the back of my crazy mind I [Continue Reading]

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Tax Payers Arrested for Obstructing Their Sidewalk at #OccupyTampa

Good morning Extreme John readers! It may be Sunday but I had to drop by today and share a little headline that caught my eye – a headline and a video actually. This week we have been talking quite a bit about the Occupy Wall Street campaign in addition to local manifestations such as Occupy [Continue Reading]

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A Follow Up to Occupy Wall Street: Occupy Tampa

Yesterday I posted about the Occupy Wall Street movement that has begun to spread worldwide and made mention that the movement was spreading pretty quickly. Well here in Tampa the occupy Wall Street movement has already taken hold. Occupy Wall Street Comes to Tampa The occupy Wall Street movement has officially come to a city [Continue Reading]

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Reflecting Upon Occupy Wall Street

In my Friday Free For All post last week I asked for your thoughts on the Occupy Wall Street movement and I was truly impressed with how many of you chimed in with your thoughts. I always enjoy a good back and forth although in this case we all seem to be leaning in the [Continue Reading]

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Friday Free for All: What Are Your Thoughts On “Occupy Wall Street “?

It’s time for the “Friday Free-for-All” #FridayFreeforAll series of posts, my way for all of the small business owners and entrepreneurs that read my blog throughout the week to come together and share tips and opinions on an aspect of the small business world. This week I want to know about how Steve Jobs has [Continue Reading]

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Steve Jobs: Top 5 Trailblazing Products

This is a guest post by Thomas Doane, of SmallBoxWeb. Steve Jobs died a few days ago. Long live Steve Jobs. He was a man who actually “changed the world”–who someone who changed the course of history. He did it–to a large extent–through great marketing techniques. More of a salesman than an inventor he took [Continue Reading]

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Death Match: iPad vs Kindle Fire

Amazon’s recent announcement of its new Kindle Fire tablet has caused quite a stir in the tech community, with people attempting to determine where, exactly, the Fire fits in with its other mobile brethren, the standard eReader and the tablet computer. Some say that the Fire is in direct competition with the Barnes & Noble [Continue Reading]

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Death Match: Google and Apple Fight Over Patents

This is a guest post by Thomas Doane from Small Box Web. It’s a patent-based arms race in Silicon Valley, these days. A patent, the constitution tells us, exists to “promote the useful arts and sciences.” The simple idea behind it ensures that if you come up with something great, you can share it and [Continue Reading]

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Where I Was on 9/11 During the Terrorist Attacks

Unless you live under a rock or in a cave like the now slaughtered Osama Bin Laden I’m willing to bet that you’re well aware of the fact that today marks the 10 year anniversary since the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Something many of us will obviously never forget. A few days ago I stopped [Continue Reading]

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Email Bag: Congressional Reform Act of 2011 – Amendment 28 of the U.S. Constitution

Once again it’s time to dip in to my email bag and share something interesting that one of YOU, my readers was nice enough to send over via my contact form. Today I’m sharing an email I received from “Kent”, based on the title of this article I’m sure you have a pretty good idea [Continue Reading]

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