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An incredible list of 52 small business tips from Canada Small Business at About.com including an index of links to small business articles covering everything from "basic e-mail management" to "phone answering tips to win business" and everything else in between. The index represents a great cross section of tips large and small in an effort to make your small business better. Each link within t Read More

This video from FastBusinessProfits.com looks at "the power of free" in small business marketing strategies. Basically, this is the idea that giving something of value away helps with the marketing process. Though I think the first example given of using free bread, cookies and other pastries to market a bakery is nothing short of brilliant, I think this strategy works best when the thing being g Read More

In this video, learn tips for your business plan. They include not only the importance of assembling a description of the business you would like to start but also assembling the data that identifies the audience or customer base and the data supporting that your business will be a success. In fact, experts in this video by Bloomberg On Demand say Read More

These tips for business leadership come to us courtesy of BusinessBalls.com operated by Alan Chapman, Leicester, England. Another bizSugar user recommended one of the posts from Alan's site recently giving me the opportunity to check it out. In reality, the following post could be talking about tips for leadership in just about any field of human Read More

In this guest post from ProBlogger, Deb Ng, founder of the Freelance Writing Jobs network, talks about how she turned a single blog into an online network including 8 blogs and including about four employees including herself. She even tells us how she did it and gives us the necessary steps to accomplish something similar. Building a blog into a Read More

Expert Carrie Hill takes a look at the latest in SEO for Small Business Websites. Most of this has to do with the Google search engine and how it ranks Websites. In this edition of SearchEngineWatch.com, Carrie talks about the importance of page loading speed and how important this will be to small business owners who rely on the page ranking Goog Read More

Here from About.com Small Business Information are nine steps to small business startup drawn from the post "Starting a Small Business 101: The Essential Steps". The article includes not only a list of important steps when considering how to start your small business but also links to further resources and more posts on the specific points from Read More

Kimberly Reiner of Mama Reiner's Fudge suggests small business marketing tips for startup businesses to spread the word in this video from About.com. Small business owners should be their own best publicists, says Reiner, who adds that small business owners and operators are best equipped to tell others about their business. She shares how she wo Read More

Seth Godin asks business owners to consider not what each customer represents in a single purchase or contract for services, but rather what the lifetime value of a happy customer who keeps coming back might be. If we did, Seth suggests, we might spend more time, energy and money to bring good customers in, give them great service, try to keep the Read More

A kind of a funny story from AOL Small business about how Oprah's projected ending of her extremely successful show in 2011 might impact small business. The article mentions the small businesses like Pure Color Jeans who literally had to increase infrastructure after the run away success resulting from a mere mention by the TV talk show queen. I Read More