In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: If you feel your business and another business have a similar approach to customers or have products that would complement each other well, consider forming an alliance. The alliance is different from a merger as you will not be taking over the other business or combining your assets. Instead, you may feature the other business’ products and vice versa so you can both appeal to a different market. For example, if you have a restaurant, you might advertise that you get your vegetables from a locally owned farm. You may also collaborate on a new product with the other business that you roll out together and promote, doubling your customer base. There are five main types of business alliances:  A sales alliance: This is where you make an agreement with another business to sell products or services that complement each other. A solution specific alliance: This is where you and another business make a formal agreement to develop and sell a particular product or service together. A geographic specific alliance: This is where you and another business agree to market certain products and services in a specific geographical area. An investment alliance: This is where you make an agreement with another business to combine funds to create a shared investment. A joint venture: This is where you make an agreement with another business to share control, profit, and loss in a specific economic undertaking. The U.S. Federal government is the largest buyer of goods and services in the world. You can tap into this huge market by bidding on a government contract. If you win the bid, your business would be supplying the government, which would require an expansion of your existing business. Though securing a government contract can be a lot of work, it could also be worth it. Often, business flourish long term when they have a government contract. Look into the Business Matchmaking Program, which is designed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Small Business Administration (SBA) to help match businesses with government contracts. You can also work with your local SBA and your local Economic Development Agency to determine if your business could qualify for a government contract. Licensing your business products can be a useful, low-cost option, especially if you have a service product or a branded product. It is also a low risk option, as it does not cost as much to license your product as it would be to product and sell your product on your own. You will need a licensing partner to agree to license your product. Products have a higher chance of being licensed if they can be linked to existing entities that are popular, such as a TV show, a brand, or a sports team. This often means that the product already has a built in audience or is appealing to an certain demographic and may be worth the investment. Look for companies that provide products or services similar to your products and reach out to them about licensing your product.
Summary: Form an alliance with an existing business. Bid on a government contract. Look into getting your business product(s) licensed.

In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: Photoshop.com's Express Editor is a streamlined, online version of Adobe's universally-known image manipulation software. It's got a paltry handful of options compared to the real thing, but that's still more options than most of its competitors can muster. Best of all, the site's interface is slick and practical at the same time. Photoshop.com has a range of sophisticated tools including dodge and burn tools, highlighting, and distortion and sketch effects, among many others.  The Express Editor's interface is somewhat different than that of Photoshop itself. Users familiar with one won't necessarily be able to jump right into the other. Photoshop.com provides each user 2 gigabytes of cloud storage space for photos. As professionals know, this isn't enough to handle many serious, high-quality images, but it's great for ordinary, run-of-the-mill ones. Image editing site Pixlr offers three separate, interconnected tools for playing with images. The most powerful, Pixlr Editor, allows resizing, cropping, rotation, and a number of useful effects and filters. Pixlr Express, the next step up in terms of ease and efficiency, offers a range of premade effects that can be applied with the click of a button. The easiest of the three interfaces, Pixlr-o-Matic, simply applies filter and frame effects, in much the same vein as Instagram. Switching from area to area is a bit awkward, so start with the most powerful tool you need first, and then mess with the less serious tools once you're done there. Fotor is a very streamlined image editing tool that provides filters and other basic touch-ups in a set, ordered series of steps. It's useless for spot-editing, but if you just want to quickly sharpen a photo without having to practice anything, it's quite handy. Fotor also provides some fun effects and frames you can try once you've cleaned up your picture. To finalize changes you've made, you'll need to click the “Apply” button at each step. Unfortunately, the button sometimes moves around, and can be a bit difficult to find. Be patient and look carefully to find where it's gone.
Summary: Enjoy (some of) the gold standard at Photoshop.com. Choose your weapon at Pixlr.com. Get basic touch-ups done quickly at Fotor.com.

In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: On your home screen, click on "Events" on the left under your "Favorites" tab. From your Events page, click "Create Event." Give your event a name (e.g., "Joe's Birthday Bash), specify a time and location, select a privacy option (invite-only, public, etc.) and, optionally, provide a description. Click "Create" to create your event. Alternatively, type the word "Events" into the search bar at the top of the screen. A link to your Events page should appear near the top of the list. " A popup window will appear displaying all your friend's names with checkmarks next to each. Normally, to invite friends, you have to check each box individually - even if you're inviting hundreds! However, this method will quickly and easily invite all your friends without any mindless clicking on your part. The scroll bar may take some time to scroll all the way down. This is the most time-consuming part of this method - unfortunately, it's necessary, as your friends won't appear in the list until you scroll to their name. This method checks the boxes of every entry in the list, so if all your friends aren't displayed in the list, they won't all be invited. Highlight "Web Developer," then select "Scratchpad" from the submenu. A popup window should open - in this menu, you're able to input javascript commands, which can be used to automate certain web processes. In this case, we'll input a command to automatically check the boxes next to all of our friends. Don't navigate away from the popup invitation menu during this step - otherwise, you'll have to re-open it and scroll to the bottom again. javascript:elms=document.getElementsByName("checkableitems[]");for (i=0;i<elms.length;i++){if (elms[i].type="checkbox" )elms[i].click()}; . Either paste this text below the default explanatory text in the window or delete the explanatory text before pasting it. If you past the command inside the explanatory text, the script won't run. Then, click "Run." Your browser may appear to freeze briefly as the script runs - this is normal. Within a few moments, your browser should unfreeze. Check your "Invite Friends" popup window. If done correctly, every friend in the popup window should be checked off! This completes the process. Enjoy your party or event! If you want to invite most of your friends, but not all of your friends, this method is still useful - simply follow the method as normal, then, when all of your friends are highlighted, manually un-invite the friends that you don't want to receive an invitation. This is still more time-efficient than manually selecting your invites.
Summary:
Log in to Facebook. On your event page, click "Invite Friends. Scroll to the bottom of the window. Click the orange "Firefox" menu button in the top left of your browser. Copy and paste the following text in the Scratchpad window: Select the "Execute" menu option. Select "Save" to invite your friends.