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With the economy in a crisis and unemployment at staggering rates, businesses of all types and sizes are feeling the crunch. So I went to the trenches this week and asked fellow entrepreneurs, CEOs, marketers and business consultants what they perceive to be the number one challenge facing small businesses today. Read More

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In survey after survey, small business owners have said that health care is their chief concern, exceeding even taxes and the credit crisis. During the presidential campaign, health care was also a key issue, and Obama vowed to make more affordable and more widely available health care a key priority of his administration. So the stage was set Read More

Listen to your employees. Why? Um...they're the ones that create, deliver and sustain your brand. They just may have some ideas. They have the data. Read More

Training is often sold as a panacea promising long-term, significant increases in revenue generation. The logical thinking attached to this approach, which makes it an easy sell, is that sales skills can be taught and process can be instilled in individuals that will elevate them to rainmaker status. Unfortunately, the reality is much different. Read More

The expanding reach of the Internet and growth of online collaboration tools have all changed small business outsourcing dramatically in the past 3-4 years. Let us take a look at 10 key trends for using independent contractors for projects and even ongoing staffing needs, and how they shape up in 2009: Read More

Henry David Thoreau wrote, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." I would agree with that, but in these modern times, women must be added into the equation. I believe that is the people living these lives of quiet desperation that is fueling the current boom in online and offline entrepreneurs. Read More

On May 25th of 1961, President John F. Kennedy addressed Congress and announced his intention to place a man on the moon, and return him to earth safely, prior to the end of the decade. Goal setting is an art, and an exercise in self belief to be sure. However, it is also a discipline which can be learned, and in the opinion of this author, the g Read More

Back when I was in school, which wasn't that long ago, in order to get this kind of information you had to spend hours in a classroom and thousands of dollars. Now you can get a big time business education, on your own time, for free. The following courses range in complexity and length, and should offer a good primer for those of you just Read More