Small business franchise opportunities don't need to be expensive and here are some in a variety of opportunities from Work.com. Matt Alderton, a guide at the community, explains opportunities all for less than $50,000 including industries ranging from financial management to food services. A word of caution: be sure the opportunities are good on Read More
Writer and former entrepreneur Hugh Aaron argues that money cannot be an end in and of itself when running or creating a business. The pursuit of money alone, he says, is at the heart of our current economic crisis. When money becomes the only focus often the quality of work one does for one's company disappears. Like the artist or scientist, Aar Read More
Can video marketing trump other mediums when it comes to spreading the word about your small business? It can, according to Caroline Melberg at the Small Business Mavericks blog. Why? Because, Carolinhe insists, video can inspire more trust than print or even audio only messages about your product or service. Video allows more levels of communicat Read More
Is sales training something a VP of Sales should deliver personally, be part of his strategic outlook to be delivered by another resource (either internal or external)? Read More
Google logo spotted an interesting double ā€œlā€ today. 27 September 2009 is Google's 11th birthday and its logo is altered (like always) to celebrate 11 years of Google brilliance. Read More
President Obama says that despite signs of economic recovery, the country will not see large-scale job growth until next year. Read More
Being motivated is a wonderful state of your being. In that state your body leverages huge amounts of energy. Your emotional field is totally balanced, physically you're able to climb the Everest and mentally you understand the whole Universe in a split of a second. I know you know the feeling. The good news is that you can re-create this state pr Read More
Quit your day job and start a small business. It's every would-be entrepreneur's fantasy. But is it really the best way to go? Well, quitting your day job isn't tough but following through on your entrepreneurial dream sure is, says Matt over at Signal vs. Noise, the 37 Signals blog. Matt's argument makes a lot of sense, that staying with your Read More
As a followup to a recent link I posted called "Tips for Creating a Smoking Personal Brand" from Pamela Slim of the Escape from Cubicle Nation blog, here's another look at branding small business. In his blog, Andy Wibbles of Six Apart looks at what small business or personal branding is really all about. It isn't about creating an artificial Read More
You may believe your small business could benefit from being listed on Wikipedia, Matt McGee of Small Business Search Marketing isn't so sure. After all, he argues, in this recent post, what every business owner wants when someone is searching for their business on Google is to control as many of the sites that pop up in a search as possible. Mat Read More
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