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This story from BusinessWeek writer Karen E. Klein looks at the much touted Goldman Sachs initiative expected to bring investment to under served entrepreneurs and the other programs already in place to do this job. The story profiles programs like Rising Tide that provide help to many under served small businesses, microbusinesses and inner city Read More

In this interview with former Thompson Reuters CEO and President Dick Harrington for a post at Harvard Business Publishing we are given a look at how small business and big business differ and what lessons small business leaders can learn from industry titans. Certainly scalability may be the most difficult challenge small businesses must tackle, Read More

In this great post from consultant Peter Bergman at Harvard Business Publishing we're treated to an appealing argument for the advantage small business may have not only in the recession but coming out the other side into the economic recovery over larger companies that have lost their customers' trust. Bergman believes the advantages of being b Read More

You can use CafePress to develop retail business offline as well as on, according to this post from R. Jean Roth in Business.com. Roth says the time to look at starting offline retail is after your designs have already caught on in your online store or perhaps you've gotten questions from customers about where else they can find your creations. R Read More

Squidoo Community Organizer Kimberly Dawn Wells has whipped together this fine lens site about using CafePress to create a small business in online retail. All you need is a good idea, some creativity, appropriate design software and a savy for marketing. CafePress makes it possible to create a store to showcase the merchandise you create at no in Read More

Though opportunities exist for outsourcing many functions in small to medium sized businesses to China, especially manufacturing, care must still be taken n exploring these options. In an article for Small Business Review, writer Gary M. Stern suggests careful investigation to avoid unscrupulous suppliers and careful research to be sure your busin Read More

Well-known Venture Capital investor Brad Feld wrote these tips for a book on startup back in 2004 and also posted them on his blog. Though some are arguable, especially for those who practice part-tome entrepreneurship since Brad seems pretty firmly behind the idea of being a full-time entrepreneur, the tips are still interesting. They are also re Read More

Small business will see an increasing market among consumers in China for a wide variety of products in the near future. Alan Gershenhorn, president of UPS International, who has obvious interest in this growing market, explains in an article posted at Small Business Opportunities online how by 2025, by some projections, China will be the largest Read More

AllBusiness sales advisor Keith Rosen describes the techniques for leaving the kind of voice mail message that will encourage potential customers to call back. When calling potential customers cold it can be difficult enough to figure out what to say and how to present your product or service when you get a live person on the other end of the line Read More

Creating an employee training program for your small business can be one of the most important aspect of running a successful business. Here Mike Kraus, retail expert at AllBusiness gives you some ideas about where to begin. Remember that creating an employee training program doesn't just help your employees. It also helps your customers by setti Read More