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This video from buildamovement.com looks at small business branding particularly for companies under five employees. Certainly, branding has long been an establish approach for big business and multinational corporations, but branding can also be an important issue for small growing businesses. Perhaps the most interesting point in the video is th Read More

Tesha McCord Poe, director of the De Anzal/SJSU Business Incubator in San Jose, CA, gets CPA tips for starting and running a small business from CPA, lecturer and teacher Dan Lutchansky. This video was shot as part of a television program back in 2007 but offers some very down to earth and useful information about starting business. Dan talks abou Read More

In this second post on StumbleUpon over the last two days I wanted to share this great video on how to promote your small business Website with StumbleUpon. In the video, Bob Sommers does a great job of explaining how this particular social bookmarking sites works and even some tips. (Submitting your own sites is bad form so get your friend to do Read More

These four posts from the LinkedIn blog tagged "small business" provide some great insight into how to use LinkedIn for small business. From optimizing your profile to attract businesses from within and outside your region to helping small businesses reach global clients to changing the way small companies do business to general tips for small b Read More

Stephen Nold lists his top five benefits of social media. I would agree with all of these and add that these benefits result not only from use of big social media and bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon and Digg but also and ESPECIALLY from using niche sites like bizSugar where your chances of being heard and having your submissions ranked highly i Read More

This article at The Blog Herald talks about how to hire a professional blogger and this can be an increasingly important consideration in business marketing today. As a professional blogger, I must admit I am a bigger fan of paying bloggers per post and word count than by so-called performance measurements mentioned in the article. This is not so Read More

David C. Skul, CEO of Relativity Business Technology Solutions, gives these great tips on increasing traffic to your small business blog. Some of these tips are not what you might at first expect like taking care when using the proper keywords and so-forth. Though proper use of keywords can be very important, David insists good content is also cri Read More

Lisa Wood's blog post about how to use StumbleUpon to grow your small business is the first in a series of posts about using the social bookmarking site as a powerful marketing tool to promote online ventures. The post begins with a simple introduction to the site and an explanation of how it works. Next come posts on how StumbleUpon can help you Read More

Thanks to Laurel Delaney at http://borderbuster.blogspot.com/ The Global Small Business Blog for this link about how young entrepreneurs (and other graduates seeking good jobs) are heading to China. The story in The New York Times talks about the appeal of China because of lower cost of living and an expanding economy with a recession at home. Rea Read More

Though you may not be located in a place in the world prone to disaster, it's always important to do small business emergency planning. This planning is likely to be generally the furthest thing from your mind when running your business. However, certainly there are at least two good reasons to prepare for the unexpected when operating your busin Read More