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I just thought I'd share this past blog post. If anyone is having trouble embedding BizSugar voting buttons into Blogger, check out this post. It addresses an irrational little quirk .... If you use Blogger (Blogspot) Read More

Nice short list of 8 things that winning businesses should do, based on a radio show by host Zane Safrit with guest Gary Hoover of Hoover's World. These tips are not the usual suspects. For instance, one of the tips is about reading business history -- and how important Read More

Have you ever been at a trade show or out and about, and wanted to take a credit card order from a customer? This new portable (very small) credit card terminal from Inuit allows you to do that. As this review points out Read More

Yahoo wants to buy some startups, especially social media and smartphone application companies. But would that be the beginning of the end for the startup? Nicholas Carson at Silicon Alley Insider looks at Yahoo's "entire sorry acquisition history" ... Read More

Talk about multi-tasking! Employees reported cramming 15.9 hours worth of activity, ranging from returning email to surfing the web, into one 8-hour workday. Those under age 30 Read More

Astronaut Mike Massimino, who blasted off for space from Cape Canaveral on Monday, sent out the first tweet from outer space. He's known on Twitter as @Astro_Mike. This example shows how Twitter is trafficking off of celebrity and newsworthy events. Read More

This column looks at how one small business owner got into a niche construction business (rehabbing historic buildings). He started with just $5,000 and worked from his dining room table -- and built it to an $8 Million a year business today. Read More

Did you know that that IRS says it takes 60 hours to complete a 1040 tax return with a Schedule C? All that complexity makes taxes a real burden. Here are 4 changes that would simplify taxes ... Read More

Starting the process of finding that perfect franchise is getting a bit more complicated, nowadays. There's this Internet thing we have, and with it, some terrific and mostly correct information. Of course there is some information that is incorrect, and some info that may have some "fluff." {hot air} Read More

Jim Kukral set up this site to make a point about having lots of Twitter followers. On this site he invites you to unfollow him. His point being: most people won't unfollow even if you ask them to, because Twitter has changed from its early beginnings. Read the whole site to understand .... Read More