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What's the purpose of your business plan? That depends on what you are using it for, says Clayton Christopher, founder and owner of Sweet Leaf Tea Company. Christopher says his company writes a new business plan every year but it isn't the kind used to raise money from investors. Though a document to raise money is one kind of business plan, ano Read More

Self publishing can be an important tool for small business. Books on your area of expertise can create a whole new product line for your business and now getting published is no longer the obstacle it once was. The self publishing revolution with technologies like print on demand at the forefront have revolutionized the publishing industry. This Read More

As Labor Day draws to a close, here's one of my favorite meditations for entrepreneurs who are even thinking about leaving their existing venture and going back to the kind of regular job that this national holiday was created for. It comes, of course, from Steve Pavlina, a truly dangerous mind...but in a good way...and a guy who is certainly on Read More

What motivates people to buy? This post at HomeBasedBusiness.com talks about what makes people go for a competitor instead of you, especially if you're sure you've got the better product. It turns out looking at the quality of your product might be the wrong way to look at competitiveness. Other more basic factors may affect whether a customer g Read More

In many ways, entrepreneurs are an optimistic lot, but small business failure is always a possibility every small business owner must be ready to face. Setbacks and pitfalls are all a part of the game and, as this entertaining and uplifting video from www.atouchofbusiness.com reminds us all, what's important is how we respond to those setbacks an Read More

Here are five tips for small business hit by natural disaster that may help you survive the worst that Mother Nature can visit upon your venture and employees. Guest Blogger Dawn Rivers Baker provides these suggestions in a recent post at Small Business CEO about how to deal with the ultimate unpredictability in business. Hopefully, you will never Read More

This great post by Seth Godin on marketing may seem like it's against marketing but it's really not. In fact, it's kind of a return to a long held theory of Seth's that ultimately you should market people what they really want not what you need to sell. Now, the question becomes how in the world can you figure that out and this Seth doesn't e Read More

Government grants for small business are often talked about as an option when launching your new venture, but how realistic an option is this when starting out? Well, in the United States any government grants to help small business will likely come from the states and this list of links from About.com should help you get an idea what's out there Read More

In this great guest post from theorist Seth D. Brown on Jeff "Ski" Kinsey's blog, Seth looks at how to avoid spreading yourself thin in the small media departmnent. Instead of worrying about all the applications out there, Seth suggests looking at what each service does for you and avoiding redundancies that consume too much time and return lit Read More

In this guest post on the Small Business CEO, Laura Pettit Rusick, of http://www.optsolutionsinc.com/ gives four challenges and their attendant solutions for helping small to medium-sized businesses to tackle the kinds of projects that can help them grow. If you are in charge of an SMB seeking to take on the larger projects needed to take your com Read More