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Columnist and small business advocate Jim Blasingame offers this Memorial Day message for small business owners...and for all Americans. Who made up the militia that fought for America's freedom? Shopkeepers, craftsmen, farmers, etc. The small business owners of their day put their lives and all th Read More

In this recent small business roundup, we see some of the pros and cons of small business cloud computing (and a few policy and other issues that may impact it's future as well.) Issues include ability to leverage resources, concerns about security etc. What are your thoughts about cloud computing Read More

There are many simple mistakes you can make when starting a small business, but this post gives a pretty broad overview of the big missteps and perhaps clues for how to avoid them. Don't let the dangers or concerns connected to startups discourage you. Simply consider this a road map to your small Read More

Tom Pick shares this awesome list of women to follow on Twitter from a small business and marketing perspective. We hope you find them as inspirational as we do. Among them is Anita Campbell, CEO at BizSugar.com and founder of Small Business Trends, but also lots of other excellent women like Jill Read More

Thanks to @ABusinessGuru for Tweeting this one, another post on whether SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is still a valid online marketing tool for business. If you're a small business owner already involved in online marketing, you no doubt already know the answer to this one. But with all the cla Read More

By way of explaining why he's not a huge fan of a proposed angel investor tax credit, Belmont University professor of entrepreneurship Jeff Cornwall of "The Entrepreneurial Mind" reiterates why a "broad-based tax cut," the kind that leaves more money in the bank accounts of consumers and potential Read More

Starting your business with your 401(k) is becoming an increasingly popular option for tax strapped entrepreneurs, according to this article from SmartMoney, part of the Wall Street Journal Digital Network. But the controversial practice, which often involves a "Rollover as Business Startup" to avo Read More

Thanks to Gail Gardner of GrowMap for sharing this post via Twitter. Starting a business online using a blog may be one of the simplest ways to start a small business online today. Here's a basic overview of WordPress, one of the most popular and versatile platforms available for blogging. The post Read More

Search Engine Optimization is the means by which Websites are improved to gain increased traffic from search engines like Google and Bing. Here's the Small Business Trend review of some very cool SEO tools, some free some paid subscription services, that can really help you improve the SEO of your Read More

Here are eight ways to increase your small business revenue or "boost your business' bottom line" as the article puts it. This is certainly something many small businesses can relate to and I want to thank Jim Kukral for tweeting this link earlier today which lead to me discovering the post. (Thank Read More