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You've got a great product and a great market you believe is ready to buy. But hold on a minute. Don't take one step further before developing a small business sales plan. It will contain important information like what the pricing should be on your product, how and where you'll be selling it and even how you will be taking the payments. A small business sales plan is a road map getting you from Read More

With tight credit from many banks some small business entrepreneurs are turning increasingly to family financing to get their startups off the ground. Here First Business News interviews several entrepreneurs in a quest for financing to launch their small business ventures. Read More

Here are seven tips for small business sales referrals from About.com. One or more, or perhaps all, may be helpful in building up sales and clients for your small business, an important idea right from the beginning when it comes to building your small business's client or customer base. Getting referrals also reduces your sales expenses and will definitely be the preferred tactic for a very smal Read More

Guest blogger Jonathan I. Ezor shares the last in a series of four articles on BusinessWeek's The New Entrepreneur on the topic of business contracts on the topic of indemnification. According to the post, Ezor is "the director of the Touro Law Center Institute for Business, Law and Technology, and an assistant professor of law and technology. He also serves as special counsel to The Lustigman Fi Read More

This video from the U.S. Department of Commerce on information technology security may sound a bit shrill and paranoid from time to time but in view of recent cyber attacks against Twitter and the presence of potentially sensitive information online as part of many small business operations today it can be very sobering as well. Could access to a single code or piece of technology in your small b Read More

Ashton Kutcher, Mr. big time TV star and still one of the most famous Twitter users on Earth because of the huge number of followers he's amassed not to mention friends on Facebook, is building a social media business of a very different kind. While waiting around to see 'Avatar' over the New Years holiday, I happened to pick up a copy of Fast Company with the following article. What's amazing fo Read More

A panel of attorney's discuss a wide range of small business legal issues from power of attorney to contracts at a meeting of the board of the National Association of Women Business Owners. This video from Small Business Television claims to include 25 small business legal tips within 25 minutes and honestly I didn't count that carefully. Also there is some exchange with the audience including qu Read More

This is part 1 of a series by Jonathan I. Ezor, a guest blogger at The New Entrepreneur at Business Week designed to unravel the secret language of attorneys for perspective entrepreneurs and business owners. The premise, of course, is that whether or not a small business owner has hired an attorney to deal with these things he/she ought to at least understand this stuff. While there is no shorta Read More

Marketing strategist Ivana Taylor has these 10 tips for marketing in 2010 including some that probably should be second nature. (Start a blog, for example.) The ideas include social media but are not all online so some close attention to what is needed to target your customers directly is the key. Think about your business and probably more importantly your customers. Where are they? Who are they Read More

O.K., let's face it. You can't stay at your computer 24/7 even if your office happens to be in the living room or at the kitchen table. So how do you stay available for customers especially during the Holiday season when you're visiting family and friends. Smallbiztechnology.com has these tips for always staying connected and being able to respond to and serve your customers. Read More