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This article on how and why to register a fictitious business name for your small business comes from attorney Jeffrey Steinberger via Yahoo! Small Business courtesy of Entrepreneur.com. If you intend to do business or open a bank account under a name other than your own, under most circumstances you'll be required to file one of these. Since there is a cost, you may want to consider whether you Read More

Human resource audits can be critical for small to medium sized businesses just as they are for large corporations. Many companies spend significant time creating human resource policies to comply with various regulations but don't take the time to keep up and insure their policies stay up to date with changing requirements. This post from Barrie Gross at AllBusiness looks at The Importance of Hu Read More

Here are some tips for pitching your small business startup to investors posted on the Startup Nation blog by Rich Sloan. The post includes a link to a FoxBusiness video clip from the segment So You Think You're An Entrepreneur in which the key elements of pitching your business idea to investors including the so-called elevator pitch are discussed. The video includes some advice on what investor Read More

Think long term when it comes to handing out employee benefits in your small business. The temptation may be to give very generous benefits from the beginning but if these benefits later need to be cut back, employees will be bitter. Watch the video from William N. Topaz below. Read More

Why are employee benefits important to small business owners? Business consultant and adjunct professor of business Joe Dunlop explains the increasing trend toward employee benefits as a powerful motivation when recruiting employees. Can you offer employees a better benefits package, more flexibility in their work schedule, more opportunity to balance work and family. If so, you may have a winnin Read More

Here are consultant Shawn Atkins' top three investment suggestions for all businesses in 2010 and they just may surprise you. I watched this video trying to guess ahead of time what Shawn's recommendations might be but must admit I probably wouldn't have made the same calls. Still I can see the value of each one of his choices. Naturally, it also depends on the size of your business and so this w Read More

How important is small business technology innovation to the economic recovery? It is crucial, says U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY), chairwoman of the House Small Business Committee in these opening remarks for a hearing in early 2009 on funding for the Small Business Innovation Research program (SBIR). At the beginning of 2010 nothing has changed and small business innovation remains key to the Read More

And the third in our ongoing series of links from BusinessWeek's The New Entrepreneur blog as guest blogger Jonathan I. Ezor looks at demystifying yet another business contract area, non-disclosure provisions. If you've ever signed a contract containing them or if you are contemplating creating one for business needs of your own, this could be an excellent preparation for the process. Of course, Read More

Guest blogger Jonathan I. Ezor continues with an ongoing series aimed at demystifying legalese for the entrepreneur and small business owner. Often these are the people most in need of answers and yet most unable to afford legal help during the startup process. The series is part of BusinessWeek' The New Entrepreneur blog and I strongly suggest you share it with any friend you happen to know who Read More

In an earlier link I mentioned Ashton Kutcher and his business model for social media as a blueprint for small business on the Web. In a followup, Fast Company posted the following story about Kutcher's Katalyst Media and how it is now adding live video promoted by Twitter and Facebook to a growing army of followers. The idea from the perspective of small business could be a very easy way of usin Read More