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ChannelAdvisor is out with a white paper on the results of their 2010 Consumer Shopping Habits Survey, and you will love the results.

This post wraps up my series this week on why you need to get your social media profiles in order before you go job hunting. First, we talked about cleaning up Facebook. Wednesday, we talked about watching what you tweet. Today, we will make sure that you have your LinkedIn profile ready.

Are you a small business owner looking for a cost-effective way to market your business? Has your marketing budget taken a hit during the recession? Do you want to connect with your customers?

Using Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks effectively to promote your business can seem difficult. But when you are armed with the knowledge of how to use these new forms of media, you possess the power to harness them to your advantage.

If you're a fan of Inbox Zero, meaning that you try to keep your inbox as clear and non-distracting as possible through the use of filters and quick archiving, you've probably run into the issue of accidentally archiving a client's email. You don't look at the folders for a while and then realize the mistake. How can you avoid this in the future?

I have been receiving a lot of invitations to connect recently that are fake. What they all have in common (so far) is that the "connection" claims to be a Colleague at Interbrand. I also just received one today that looked like a reminder that you have many unread messages in your LinkedIn Inbox.

I personally have not clicked these because I have a habit of going directly to the website myself. I suggest that you do the same.