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Every week we bring you a carefully-vetted list of events, contests and awards for small businesses, solo entrepreneurs and growing companies. To see a full list or to submit your own event, contest or award listing, visit the Small Business Events Calendar.

Featured Events, Contests and Awards

7 Steps to Facebook Success – How to Make Money on the World’s #1 Social Network
June 04, 2013, Online

If you’ve been feeling frustrated and overwhelmed by the constant changes and Read More

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”The Internship‘ is a new movie that follows two laid-off salesmen as they attempt to start over in their careers through an unpaid internship at Google. It arrives in U.S. movie theaters in June. It comes across as a feel-good movie with special relevance for anyone interested in the inside workings of Google.

What ‘The Internship’ is About

The movie stars Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn (pictured above) as Billy and Nick.  The two find themselves out of Read More

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Circuses were meant to draw the audience’s eye to various clowns, acrobats, trapeze performers and artists meant to bedazzle and delight.  With more people spending time online, companies can feel as if they have to run Barnum and Bailey rather than a company.

One entertainment concept that has spread through the last few years is gamification – connecting to customers through implementing design concepts from games and loyalty programs based on behavioral economics.  The concept is the study of a Read More

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