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An important consideration, depending upon the type of small business you operate, will be how to go about protecting your trade secrets. These are important details of your business ranging from intellectual property to customer lists and if they must be protected to avoid a former employee going to work for a competitor and taking your secrets with them or starting their own business in competi Read More

This article from Lawyers.com talks about lawsuits and your small business and deals most specifically with the conditions under which you might have to consider bringing suit. Though the article says little about defending your business against a lawsuit but the inner workings of the issue are what are most important here. As the article explains, if you are in business it is likely that at some Read More

This post from CrowdSpring looks at many different aspects of trade names, Trademarks and logos from the perspective of small business. This post deals with an overview of the legal issues connected to each and what is involved for the small business that must deal with them. We would love to see other links to helpful posts and articles containing important legal tips for small business so pleas Read More

Here are 5 tips to finding the perfect small business attorney from FindLaw, an interesting legal resource which publishes a blog entitled "Free Enterprise" dedicated specifically to the legal concerns of small businesses. In this post, we examine a series of issues to take into consideration when trying to identify and then screen possible candidates for your small business attorney. Some of the Read More

Theresa Carey at Small Business Computing.com takes a look at QuickBooks Premier 2010, the latest generation in the popular small business accounting software. If you are thinking about upgrading your accounting software or getting into small business for the first time, check out Theresa's review first to determine whether or not the latest QuickBooks software is the right small business account Read More

Choices about what smartphone or smartphones to buy for your small business take several different forms, says Adam Ostrow at Mashable. There are also several layers of functionality and quality to decide upon before you can make a purchase. The article leads you through some of the considerations you DEFINITELY should be making before thinking about this important decision and helps you arrive a Read More

This post from smallbiztechnology.com looks at a simple online screen sharing tool that would seem to have great potential for small business collaboration, requires no hefty downloads and takes only seconds to use. Please read the article and test the tool if you are so inclined. Though I haven't tested out the tool yet, I'd be most thankful for any feedback from anyone who's used it and we welc Read More

If you think you can ignore the realities of online marketing, here's another example from smallbiztechnology.com why those who ignore online marketing may do so at their own peril. There is no guarantee that online marketing will be the exclusive method for growing your business in the future. Circumstances can always change. For now, however, the power of online marketing is simply not somethin Read More

Be sure to bookmark Cameron Chapman's incredible and comprehensive 230 plus online tools to manage your home business at Mashable. No doubt you'll find some of these tools more helpful than others, but there's no question it's great resource for any small business looking for smarter ways to handle just about every facet of their operations online. Read More

In this video from sterlingteaches on YouTube we look at free office software for your small business. In particular, this tutorial shows how to download Open Office an open source software especially created to be downloaded, used and contributed to by those who might not be able to afford more expensive software packages. Technically there is the opportunity, and the implied responsibility, to Read More