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For years, eBay espoused an egalitarian view that all of its sellers should be treated equally. But these days, the online marketplace is increasingly taking an opposite tack by offering discounts to its biggest sellers, hoping to lure more of their business. The change in tactics, which coincides with efforts to revive the company's grow Read More

Every economic downturn has tremendous potential for the few smart people who choose to see it as an opportunity to shake things up. If you are a business owner, this is what you should do right now: Read More

Despite economic downturn, the online economy keeps chargin' hard! And there's room for growth, considering that the U.S. Dept. of Commerce says that only 3.2% of all retail is online. Would you believe that its never broken 4%? Read More

People over age 40 participate heavily in word-of-mouth and value personal recommendations and expert opinions, but they have not embraced social networking or blogs despite being heavy users of other online services, according to a ThirdAge/JWT Boom study. Boomers want to connect and interact with others in their communities around shared inte Read More

Though 46% of US adults say they neither think nor act Green, the 2% who fall into the Green Advocates segment are among the most tech-savvy consumers, according to Mediamark Research & Intelligence's Survey of the American Consumer. The six consumer segments produced by MRI highlight differing attitudes toward the environment and actions take Read More

When a small business graduates from being home-based to having premises of its own, it's quite an accomplishment. But in this economy, some small company owners are deciding it makes more sense to move back home again. Although a home-based business has become much more widely accepted, moving back when you're in financial distress might car Read More

Watch as Robert Kiyosaki and his advisors give their predictions for 2008. Part three of 4. Read More

Loan fraud has been a long-standing, widespread problem within the Small Business Administration and has cost taxpayers literally hundreds of millions of dollars. But when a senior executive of Business Loan Express engineered a particularly brazen $76 million loan scam early last year, it was widely thought the SBA had finally learned its lesson. Read More

When people hear about the prospects of blogging for profit, they get funny ideas about the process. Blogging can add value to a business in countless ways, but it's hardly a one-size-fits-all. Just ask any successful business blogger and they'll tell you how tricky it is navigating the waters of blogging as a promotional tool. For the rest of us, Read More