How Social is B2B? [Infographic]

We have long known that social networking is an excellent playground for businesses to connect with and attract potential customers, but how many businesses are actually utilizing this technology, and what type of success are they achieving with their efforts?

The following infographic breaks down what social services businesses are using the most and how drastically social network usage and micro-blogging has increased deals and sales for all types of businesses.

Top 10 Scams of 2011 [Infographic]

Whether you’re checking your email, browsing through your friend’s updates on Facebook, spending a few nights in a hotel, looking for work, use online banking to pay your bills, or if you’re just hanging out at home minding your own business, you are susceptible to being scammed. In fact, these circumstances have provided the ideal backdrop for scammers to come in and purposely mislead people, resulting in computer viruses, identity theft, debt, and having money stolen directly from bank accounts and credit cards.

The Better Business Bureau has collected the 10 most popular scams that have plagued millions over the past year alone; a novel idea considering BBB was the top scam of the year, with emails going out to small business owners claiming that a complaint had been made against their business. I have actually received that email a ton of times, along with a few other email phishing scams, but thankfully they all wound up in my spam folder and I was never made a victim because of them.

Check out the following infographic for information about the top 10 scams of 2011, who they targeted, and what the result of each scam is.

The 10 Most Successful Female CEOs of All Time

This is a guest post by Business Insurance Quotes, providing top notch resources for businesses of all sizes for over 20 years.

Women have slowly but surely made their way into the corporate world over the last few decades. Still, only 18 women are running Fortune 500 companies. These female CEOs have broken the gender barriers in business, but not without many years of hard work, rejections, and slow promotions. Here are the 10 most successful female CEOs of all time.

Is it Gender or Skills that Make a Good Social Media Marketer?

Ten years ago I started working for my husband providing marketing services for his software business. At the time, we were not married and he lived in another state therefore most of our communication was done over the phone. He didn’t have any background in marketing, and figured since I had taken some college courses related to marketing I could turn his business around.

How I wish social media was then what it is today. We were lucky to at least have Instant Messenger.

According to ComScore 2010 US Digital Year in Review women spend more time social networking than men. Women spent approximately 16.8% on social sites in December of 2010 while men spent only 12%.

Today, social media tools are just as much associated with businesses as well as personal lives. Some researchers …

New Business Cards and Other Woman Tribune-Branded Paraphernalia

Woman Tribune has been around since January 2008 and yet we have never had actual, official business cards. Can you believe that? I know, it is pretty mind-boggling for our world of booming blog businesses, conferences, events and miscellaneous get-togethers. The truth is, I tend to still have a very “old school” outlook on blogging, and I think that is because of the time when I started blogging–before anyone really knew what a blog was and I was told repeatedly that I was merely wasting time sitting in front of a computer for hours on end–as well as why I started blogging in the first place.

I began blogging in order to catalog and sort out my own thoughts and then overcome my own, unique struggles. It was easy. I sat at my computer, typed …

Verizon Wireless Inspires Survivors of Domestic Violence to Put their Dream to Work with New Grant

To escape from an abusive relationship, a woman must find and rely on the strength within herself that she has been told for years, and sometimes even decades, that she does not possess. She must find a way to cope with and ultimately overcome adversity. She must be diligent and continue moving forward, finding new ways to solve big problems. She must invest in herself after repeatedly being told that she is not worth investing in and without her partner she is nothing. She must become self-sufficient for perhaps one of the first times in her life.

Escaping from an abusive relationship and reinventing oneself on their own terms puts to use the exact tools and skill set that entrepreneurship relies on.

While countless women have escaped from lives of domestic violence and have went on to …