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Summer is winding to a close all too soon, but if you have summer interns on staff at your small business, there’s still time to get the most from them before they head back to school in the fall. As your summer interns end their service, it’s also a good time to review what went right (and wrong) Read More

What are mobile technology users doing with their devices? A new Gartner report, Survey Analysis: Early Tablet Adopters and Their Daily Use of Connected Devices, found that five online activities are rapidly moving from the PC to the tablet: checking email (81 percent of respondents), reading news Read More

Maria Valdez Haubrich recently blogged on this site about back-to-school shopping projections and what they mean for your small business. But back-to-college shopping is an even more profitable part of the back-to-school equation. The National Retail Federation/BIG Insight Survey recently took a lo Read More

Is your retail or ecommerce business looking for hot new products to sell? One of the best places to scope out new products is at a trade show. Trade shows are where manufacturers and wholesalers show off their hot new products, and offer a great venue to comparison shop among different product lin Read More

The future of retail is online, mobile and social, reports a recent Motorola Solutions survey reported by Marketing Charts. U.S. retailers polled predict that within the next five years, nearly half (42 percent) of retail sales will come from online, mobile and social commerce sites. To keep custom Read More

The economy is improving—or is it? In today’s roller-coaster economic environment, the risk that a key customer of your small business might declare bankruptcy is ever-present. How can you protect your business from a key supplier or customer’s misfortune?
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All the attention social media gets in the marketing world might be convincing you that email is dead. Far from it. Email marketing volume hit record-setting levels during June 2012, and total email volume growth for this year is expected to surpass that of 2011, according to a study by email mark Read More

Are retail stores becoming obsolete? In a new report by Capgemini Global, more than half of respondents around the world say that by 2020, retail locations will be nothing more than “showrooms” for choosing products and ordering them online.
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Is your small business at risk of identity theft or credit card fraud from improper use of business and personal credit cards? A recent report from Javelin Strategy & Research, 2012 Identity Fraud for Small Business Owners, reported by Fox Business, has some alarming news. Here’s some of what Javel Read More

Summer is here—but as any small business owner knows, summer vacation isn’t always an option when you run a busy business. In fact, the latest Manta SMB Wellness Index conducted by online small business community Manta found almost half of small business owners don’t have time to take a vacation th Read More