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For many Boomers, retirement is an opportunity to start a business and become their own boss. 15 percent intend to work for themselves until they die, according to a new Ipsos Reid (Canada) study of Boomers who have either retired early to start their own business. Read More

The New York Times has abandoned its "Times Select" subscription service. The Financial Times is making more of its content available free. Rupert Murdoch is widely rumored to be planning the same for The Wall Street Journal. Is this a trend? Several eMarketer analysts weighed in on the state of fee-based versus ad-supported online content. Read More

As you're learning about search marketing and SEO, you will definitely run into the phrase "the long tail". Let's turn this odd term into a familiar one by looking into long tail keywords. What are Long Tail Keywords? When you are identifying keywords for your internet marketing (both SEO and PPC), the metric used most to compare keywords is i Read More

Microsoft is reaching out to help small businesses find IT support by introducing the Small Business Specialist Community, some 5,000 Microsoft partn Read More

Recession is one of the major themes, in the mainstream media, when discussing the economy. With the fall out from subprime mortgages, increasing numbers of housing foreclosures, and balance sheet write downs among the financial corporations, many business people are becoming worried about the future of the economy. Instead of tearing out your hai Read More

Ken Gaebler knows that winning investor money is all in the pitch. A serial entrepreneur, Gaebler has raised $24 million for seven companies since 1995. Now, he sits on the other side of the conference-room table, as president of private-equity firm Gaebler Ventures in Chicago — and routinely watches newbie entrepreneurs present their ideas in a b Read More

With 53% of online shoppers early technology adopters, despite constituting just 36% of the North American population - retailers are feeling compell Read More

A combination of print and online local media is a more trusted and relied-upon environment for advertising than commercial television, found a new survey by TNS Media. The value of local media in advertising has been the subject of a study for the Newspaper Society's ongoing research project. It turns out that local media is a more trusted and re Read More

While the majority of the country seems to be behind the Democratic Party as the political campaigns gain steam, it seems that small business is pretty content with the Republican Party and believes it's the party for small business. According to a new survey from SurePayroll, which polled 450 small business owners, most small biz owners are pull Read More