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The personal-finance website WalletHub recently took a look at the best and worst metro areas for women-owned businesses. They compared the 100 largest metropolitan areas across 10 different metrics that indicate friendliness toward women-owned businesses. For example, they looked at average revenu Read More

On April 10, 2016, the U.S. Postal Service will reduce postage rates for regular mail — for the first time in 97 years.
Small businesses have become conditioned to hearing about postage rates going up. But, in a move called “historic” certain postage rates are being reduced.
The biggest news is t Read More

Growing your team is an important part of growing your business. But it’s not always a simple process. There are expenses and laws to take into account, like California’s new $15 an hour minimum wage. And you may even have to deal with things like seasonal hiring, which the White House may be able Read More

Groupon just announced a number of website, mobile and tablet improvements under its Groupon Merchant brand. The brand is designed to simplify the way a Groupon marketing campaign can be created and managed by merchants on any device no matter where they are located. Read More

Mindfulness is often praised as an incredible tool for personal efficiency, but can it also improve your leadership? Matt Tenney and Dr. Tim Gard believe it can. In their book, “The Mindfulness Edge: How to Rewire Your Brain for Leadership and Personal Excellence Without Adding to Your Schedule,” T Read More

A robot revolution has been the stuff of movie and literary fiction for a long time. Often times, depictions of that revolution are gory and end when the last humans are whipped out by the machine.
In reality, the robot revolution is turning out to be a lot friendlier and pretty helpful, too. Imag Read More

With so many different businesses out there, it can be easy for your company to just blend in. But you need to stand out in some way if you want to gain the attention of your target customers.
There are several different strategies you can use to make your business stand out. Members of the online Read More

April is already under way. Look for events coming this week in New York, Cincinnati and Kansas City. But looking ahead to May and June there are some big events on the horizon too.
For instance on May 21, the Small Business Market Expo will be held in the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta. Then in Read More

As author Dr. David Livermore observes in his book “Driven by Difference: How Great Companies Fuel Innovation Through Diversity,” mention the word “diversity” to a group of leaders and you’ll get those who are afraid, tired or confused (even if they agree with the principles). Diversity, as a focus Read More

From accountant to CMO, small business owners are used to wearing a number of different hats and juggling myriad tasks. It’s easy to become so immersed in the minutia of business that you forget about your surrounding community. Don’t let this happen to you! It takes a village to run a successful b Read More