Suggested by BizSugar advisory board member Joel Libava via Facebook, here is a great resource from Carol Roth with more than 80 strategies from many different entrepreneurs. Some of these pieces of advice are bound to contradict one another and not every piece of advice will work for every business...or even every employee for that matter. Incidentally, I first found Carol myself through another BizSugar member Sarah Shaw a.k.a. the Entreprenette. Great resource which I'm hoping everyone here at BizSugar will be sure to check out
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80 Plus Suggestions For Motivating Small Business Employees
Posted by ShawnHessinger under ManagementFrom http://www.carolroth.com 4991 days ago
Made Hot by: MarciaB2B on July 29, 2010 10:32 pm
Anita Campbell on Small Business, Social Media and BizSugar.com
Posted by ShawnHessinger under Social MediaFrom http://www.bizsugar.com 4991 days ago
Made Hot by: m4bmarketing on July 29, 2010 9:56 pm
BizSugar member Yonatan Maisel specially requested the adding of this blog post with link to a podcast interview with Brad Nellis, executive director of the Northeast Ohio Software Association. Anita speaks about subjects including BizSugar, small business and social media more generally, in this wide ranging interview and the post includes some excerpts from that conversation. In May, the Northeast Ohio Software Association awarded BizSugar it’s Best of Tech Award for Best Social Networking App. For Yonatan and any other members out there who may be interested, I often include posts from the BizSugar blog where applicable here on BizSugar but not always. Of course submitting a favorite post from our blog, if it hasn't been submitted already, is easy simply by clicking the "Submit Story to BizSugar" button above each post:
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Small Business and the U.S. Death Tax
Posted by ShawnHessinger under NewsFrom http://smallbiztrends.com 4992 days ago
Made Hot by: Jed on July 28, 2010 6:27 pm
By the end of 2010, a tax considered a major bane to many small family owned business will return after a one year hiatus. After brief repeal at the beginning of 2010, the estate tax, or "death tax" as it's critics call it, will be back and family owned businesses passed on to children after the death of a parent could see a 55 percent tax on the value of the assets of a business that may have taken years, or in some cases generations to build. A determined battle is now being waged to be sure the death tax does not return. Are there any community members that will find themselves affected by the return of the "death tax
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Small Business News: How To Find Thousands of Prospects
Posted by ShawnHessinger under Online MarketingFrom http://www.copyblogger.com 4995 days ago
Made Hot by: BusinessBloggerPro on July 28, 2010 5:21 am
I promised Susan Oakes a couple of days ago to post this article from a blogger I always enjoy reading, Sonia Simone of Copyblogger, in response to Susan's post "Your Customers Have The Need But Do They Have The Desire?" Check it out on her blog, M4B Marketing, or here at BizSugar posted about four days ago. In the post, in turn a response to another post from Stoney deGeyter of Search Engine Guide, Susan argues that "You need to work out the difference between those customers having a need and those that actually have a desire to take action." Susan is definitely right as far as she goes, but Sonia takes it one step further. Those customers with a "desire to take action" may just be the tip of the iceberg!
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Sharing Small Business News (On BizSugar and Other Social Media)
Posted by ShawnHessinger under Social MediaFrom http://www.bizsugar.com 4995 days ago
Made Hot by: ofirafromjobshuk on July 26, 2010 6:55 am
How important is sharing small business news with your network of connections and what are the best ways to go about it? (This applies to BizSugar members, of course, but also to anyone else who uses social media.) Sharing small business news or other information of value is a form of marketing whether you realize it or not. See also the video from Greg Fry of Bloggertone, whose posts appear regularly here on BizSugar.com in this latest edition from our BizSugar blog.
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Small Business News and Social Media
Posted by ShawnHessinger under Social MediaFrom http://blog.diyseo.com 5002 days ago
Made Hot by: profit613 on July 23, 2010 3:09 pm
This great infographic shares small business news about how social media is really being adopted by small business and even how much success small businesses report seeing after using the tools. As expected, the number of small to medium sized businesses using these services remains low, and so do the percentage of users who say use of the tools has resulted in increased sales. Though the jury is still out, there are businesses that have claimed substantial response to social media marketing, and it seems logical that number will continue to grow over time.
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Can Use of Small Business Credit Cards Stimulate Job Growth?
Posted by ShawnHessinger under Raising CapitalFrom http://www.inc.com 5002 days ago
Made Hot by: jsternal on July 22, 2010 3:40 pm
A study insists use of small business credit cards was helpful in increased revenue and job creation between 2003 and 2008. But since the study was completed just before the worst part of the recession hit, we are left to wonder about the real impact of so much credit. After all, other sources insist that unpayable loans and low customer spending led many businesses to close. I wonder if any of them had run up big bills on their small business credit cards.
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The Klingon Guide to Online Marketing
Posted by ShawnHessinger under Online MarketingFrom http://indiemusic.typepad.com 5002 days ago
Made Hot by: BradenM on July 19, 2010 6:20 am
OK. I'll admit it. I'm a huge Star Trek fan, particularly of the vintage 1960's series. And with the growing popularity of a recently launched Star Trek fan site which ranked pretty high on Yahoo! "trending" for Web search earlier last week, I decided to combine my love of pop culture references and online business advice once again. I hope the post is not just entertaining but also informative because it deals with a lot of pretty simple ideas about online marketing I've picked up over the last few years. Enjoy!
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Small Business News: Don't Compete on Price
Posted by ShawnHessinger under Products and ServicesFrom http://www.fastcodesign.com 5002 days ago
Made Hot by: BradenM on July 19, 2010 4:51 am
If your product is awesome enough, price shouldn't matter. Check out this small business news applicable to just about everyone. The incredible tree house built by a Swedish architectural firm profiled in this Fast Company article goes for $575 per night. Why? The pictures and description speak for themselves. How many other similar experiences like this are there out there? Does Holiday Inn offer comparable accommodations? Certainly not. So the price of a stay at a traditional hotel compared to one in this incredible tree house is really unimportant. Can your products and services make your competitors unimportant? They can if they're incredible.
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Small Business News: Using Video For Social Media
Posted by ShawnHessinger under Social MediaFrom http://www.bizsugar.com 5007 days ago
Made Hot by: Vincentcromine5 on July 14, 2010 7:00 am
Our latest post at the BizSugar blog shares some important small business news about the growing trend of online video and how it can improve your small business marketing efforts. As I've mentioned before, we'd love to see more video submissions here at BizSugar. Want to share a video link? Simply enter the Web address of a video post on YouTube or another favorite video site in the story url section while posting and start sharing your own favorite online small business videos with the bizSugar community
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