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Talk to people inside the SBA and they'll say the agency is poised to emerge from several trying years of restructuring a stronger, business-friendlier organization. Then there are SBA critics like Sen. John Kerry who, as chairman of the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, contends the agency, under President George W. Bush, has l Read More

By offering free shipping on Internet orders, not only do your potential customers benefit from shopping from home but they are also not being penalized for doing so by incurring delivery charges. Amazon has recently dropped its minimum order value by two-thirds in the run up to Christmas. To make the most of your free delivery offer, ensure t Read More

Surviving and even thriving in this turbulent economic period has everyone looking to cut costs. From our newest and recently published Email Marketing Benchmark Guide, herefs a timely chart for marketers. It says: Keep email off the chopping block. Read More

Are you wilting in a market meltdown? If you're a real estate agent, there is a good chance that a daisy chain of financial disaster—collapsing housing bubble, wave of sub prime defaults, frozen corporate credit markets—has become your worst nightmare. Read More

One of the simplest things to do to get your contact in front of other bloggers in these circumstances is to email them to let them know of your post and/or to suggest it as a potential story for their own blog. Read More

Implementation is a critical part of the SEO process. This is where we actually make the recommended changes to the Web site. It's also where way too many SEO projects go wrong. As much we try to ask all the hard questions before an agreement is signed or a single check is cut, there are some who fail to realize the commitment of time/resources Read More

Figures suggesting that fake anti-virus packages are allowing cybercrooks to make more than €10m a month are been described as little better than guesswork. Vendors across the industry are warning that scarewore packages - which attempt to trick would-be marks into handing over their hard-earned cash for packages that claim to resolve fictitious i Read More

Slate BizBox--corporate brother of The Washington Post--on the Post's breaking news that, scandalously, nearly $6 billion in federal "small business" contracts were awarded to big corporations. Read More

Watch out for a new brand of consumer in 2008: the middle-aged Simplifier. She finds herself surrounded by too much stuff acquired. She is increasingly skeptical in the face of a financial meltdown that it was all worth the effort. Out will go luxury purchases, conspicuous consumption, and a trophy culture. Tomorrow's consumer will buy more ephem Read More