Meet the top ultrabook options for business users

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LEARN MORE                                           †Terms and Restrictions Apply. Marketing  Tips for creating a successful e-mail marketing campaign Make sure your marketing e-mails are providing useful information to prospects rather than simply advertising your products, writes Lee Polevoi. Also, add a personal touch to messages, and respond quickly if a customer sends an e-mail, Polevoi recommends. Intuit Small Business Blog (8/27)       The secrets to being an interesting marketing blogger The majority of business-to-business marketers are blogging, but not everyone is comfortable with the process, writes Jesse Noyes. The best blog posts start with an interesting headline and include visual elements, Noyes writes, citing advice from Mark Schaefer. Posts should also be brief and include social-sharing buttons. Eloqua/It's All About Revenue blog (8/28)       Management  Why you need to let young workers know what is expected of them It's important to put policies in place that lay out your behavioral expectations as members of Generation Y enter the workforce, writes Andrew Lu. You may want to create policies that establish a dress code and govern the use of social media in the workplace. You should also work to curb bullying in the workplace, he writes. FindLaw/Free Enterprise blog (8/27)       Money  Report: Small-business lending is affected by weak banks A drop in small-business lending can be traced to a small number of weak community banks that are "really pulling down the total" for such loans, says Elizabeth Laderman, an economist who authored an analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Weak banks made up about one-third of the 5,453 banks with less than $1 billion in assets that were reviewed, she says. Bloomberg Businessweek (8/28)       PayPal, Discover offer new payment option for shoppers PayPal and Discover Financial Services are working together to provide customers with another option for making payments at retail stores, writes Mikal E. Belicove. Starting next year, customers will be able to pay at stores that accept the Discover card by using PayPal PIN codes and their cellphone numbers. Entrepreneur online/The Daily Dose blog (8/28)       Tips & Tools  Google+ Hangouts can be a virtual classroom, TV studio or neighborhood Business-to-business marketers can easily find the benefits of streaming live video from their sites through Google+ Hangouts. InQuicker uses them keep business meetings focused, keeping in mind that Hangouts can expand brainstorming sessions, increasing the scope of ideas. Subject-based question-and-answer sessions, classes on topics of interest, and off-hours consulting are just some of the other uses for Hangouts, writes Lisa Barone. Small Business Trends (8/28)       Meet the top ultrabook options for business users Ultrabooks, super-lightweight laptops, are a hit with consumers, and business users may also enjoy using them, writes Melanie Pinola. She lists five ultrabook options for the business sector, from brands such as Fujitsu, HP and Lenovo. PCWorld Business Center (8/28)       Featured Content  Feeding Frenzy: Small Business' Role at the RNC Where Making Money and Social Media Meet Is Your Banker Discriminating Against You? Lessons From a Professional Organizer Entrepreneurial Success Secrets From Female Bloggers Just for Fun  Have you got what it takes to complete a "mud run"? Fitness freaks are flocking to participate in "mud runs," which are hardcore obstacle courses half-submerged in pools of mud. Wading through mud while ducking barbed-wire obstacles is the ultimate test of a racer's mettle, aficionados say. "The mud is just there and there's something very primal about it," says one participant. Reuters (8/27)       SmartQuote  Sometimes as small-business owners, because we get energy from that really cool idea, we get distracted by it, and we lose our focus on that core thing." --Business consultant Cyndee Lake, as quoted by the Intuit Small Business Blog       SmartBrief delivers need-to-know news in over 100 targeted email newsletters to over 3 million readers. All our industry briefings are FREE and open to everyone—sign up today! 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