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If you’re a consultant, freelancer, or small business owner, at some point you’ll need to do research for your business. Maybe you’ll need to do market research, compare insurance plans, manage your reputation online, or scope out the competition. Whatever the topic, you’ll need a strategy, tools to work with the information you find, and the skills to manage the logistics—and that all comes before you can even start making sense of whatever you find.
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Using the right search engine for the job can save you tons of time. Check out the links below to learn about specific search engines and what they can do for you. Do you have another one to recommend? Let us know by adding a comment. Link Friday is a regular feature.

1. Pandia Powersearch – Amazing all-in-one list of search engines and directories, including the hidden Web, audio and video, and much more.

2. Search Engines Directory – Search engine directory from a fantastic authority—check out the blog while you’re there. Read the full post →

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Ready to Blog for Biz? Research Before You Leap!

July 21, 2009
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If you’re ready to blog, do you know how to get started? If not, read on.
Your first priority is research. There’s a lot to learn, so I recommend you get to know the terrain right from the start.
You need to:

Know what other people are doing with their blogs and websites, both in your market/area [...]

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Decision Making in Complex Environments

June 26, 2009
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Yesterday I talked about “Decision Making in Complex Environments” with attendees of the G-4 Army brown bag program at the Pentagon. The program supports knowledge sharing and gives attendees the opportunity to learn from professionals with a variety of perspectives and experiences.
It was, of course, and honor to speak with them and the topic is [...]

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Research Tools for Regular Folks

June 16, 2009
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Happily, there are plenty of useful tools for searching, offloading, and managing information when you’re using computers and the Web for research.  Your tools of choice should depend on:

what you want to do with the information,
your comfort level with computers,
the software you’re using,
your computing environment (Mac, Windows, home, work, etc.),
and what will make your life [...]

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Research Methods for Regular Folks

June 12, 2009
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All of us can learn more than ever before  with computers and the Web. It’s time to think of ourselves as researchers and add some structure to our self-education.
Take your common sense with you on the Web and get ready to learn something new!
When you take charge of your own education, you and you alone [...]

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Research for Regular Folks

June 9, 2009
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When you’re getting ready to start a big research project like buying a car, getting back in the stock market, or learning about a health condition, it helps to add some rigor and structure to your browsing so you can be more confident about what you learn.
Research and learning are very personal processes, so it [...]

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research is Code for: Finding Fun, Saving Money & Saving Time

November 17, 2008
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At this point it helps to define research with a small “r”. Small “r” research is the sort we do every day, often without the label or without the baggage left over from classes we once sat through at school. Research is an important life skill, in the digital world it ranks right up there [...]

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