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The US Internet population remains firmly skewed toward females. In 2008, 100.4 million females and 93.5 million males will go online at least once a month, according to eMarketer's latest estimates. In 2012 females will outnumber males online by more than 8 million. Females will make up 51.8% of all US Internet users in 2008. Read More

What do you do when you see one of your employees has posted a résumé to a service like Monster or CareerBuilder? That depends on why they're posting. Read More

Small businesses say years of crushing health care costs have them backing major changes this time around. The NFIB helped derail President Bill Clinton's effort to overhaul the health insurance system during the 1990s. Now, small companies with an average of 10 workers are bearing the greatest burden of insurance premium increases, which have gr Read More

For small businesses that can't afford a lot of marketing, the blogosphere offers a cheaper alternative. Businesses of all types and sizes are focusing on the power of bloggers as opinion shapers. But harnessing that power is particularly important for small-business owners who don't have the money to create name recognition with big marketing c Read More

We all know the customer is the most important person in our business, but sometimes we forget that the second most important person in the business is any staff member that comes in contact with the customer in anyway. The staff member that deals with the customer face-to-face is the person who represents the business in the customers mind. If th Read More

When they are confronted with two merchants who offer the same product at the same price, consumers say the two factors that influence them most are payment security and payment choice. More than one-half of respondents said that the security of their financial information was the deciding factor when they made purchases. An additional two-thirds s Read More

Google introduced a new service called Ad Manager. It gives Web site publishers more control over their ad sales and ad serving. Google's target users are SMBs. It's yet another free service; there are no fees associated with Ad Manager. Google will, however, take a commission on revenue from ads it sells on your site. Read More

Rodney Bartlett interviews Google's Matt Cutts at Pubcon 2007 in Las Vegas. Matt had some excellent tips for small business owners and answered a few great questions. Read More

As soon as you add the first employee to your small business, you need to start focusing on cultivating a culture of teamwork within your organization. It's much easier to maintain a true team environment when you start out on the right foot. Many business owners make the mistake of thinking that as long as their employees manage to work together Read More

The federal government's in-house advocate for small businesses released a list of 10 regulations that agencies should review, including simplifying the home office business deduction. This regulatory change would benefit millions of home-based businesses, many of which now don't take the deduction because of its complexity and the fear it would Read More