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Ron Corning of SBTV.com gives some interesting tips for small business recession survival in this videotaped interview. Some of the suggestions are just common sense others may surprise you. The high points: --Repackage your products and services to increase sales --Don't lower prices because of the impact it may have on future business and lon Read More

This interesting story from the BBC about how small business loans remain a challenge examines how the recession has been hard even for small businesses that are fairing well especially when it comes to credit. According to the story, banks have increasingly shut out small businesses even in cases where credit had earlier been extended and busines Read More

Jeff Cornwall of The Entrepreneurial Mind, a tireless defender of the free enterprise system raises the alarm on his blog about a study he says uses biased information to question the importrance of small business to the U.S. economy. If politics and its impact on the economy in general and small business and entrepreneurship specifically is a top Read More

From the blog Traffikd, here are six ways niche social media sites can benefit your blog and brand alot more than big social media sites like Digg. Smaller more niched sites may closer fit your own business or blogging niche thus having a greater chance of attracting the kinds of readers and customers you are hoping to connect with. Smaller niche Read More

The following video looks at social media marketing tips from Jane Copland of SEOmoz.org. You're probably aware of social networking sites like del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Yahoo! Answers, Facebook, Digg and MySpace. But maybe you've never considered them as legitimate tools for marketing your small business online. In the video, Jane not only cons Read More

Join our sometime BizSugar contributor Joel Libava, aka the Franchise King, as he reviews how to franchise your business. Necessarily, Joel also reviews how to decide whether you should franchise in the first place, how long it is likely to take to build up franchises of your business and how much the process is likely to cost. The following video Read More

Evaluating your small business goodwill when considering sale of your enterprise means going beyond the usual questions about equipment, inventory and fixtures. In this post, broker Bob Hughes reviews some of the things that go into calculating goodwill. They include things like the business's reputation, contact information, logos and trademarks Read More

About.com desktop video guide Gretchen Siegchrist suggests learning to promote your small business with vlogging. The term, for the uninitiated, refers to blogging in video format, a technique that has become considerably easier lately thanks to sites like YouTube. Imagined having your own television station mainly for the promotion of your small Read More

Consider these ten tips for a new small business from Yahoo! Small Business. Notice that among the important considerations is that you start your business on a shoestring and try to save as much money as possible before getting started. The idea here is that you will avoid large amounts of outside investment and credit that will make it take long Read More

A blog about a recent trip to Ghana from "Entrepreneurs at ASU" (Arizona State University) raises the question of whether social entrepreneurship is the next small business trend. Sponsored by GlobalResolve at ASU, an initiative aimed at bringing economic development and other tools to the developing world, the trip looked at many factors connec Read More