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Amanda Scarr of WatchMeFranchise! shares some common sense but often forgotten business owner traits. Though, as Scarr says, not all successful business owners may share all 10 traits, they are a good starting point when considering some of the discipline you may need to consider to run a successful business. All business owners have challenges wi Read More

In an addition of his podcast, The Daily Flip, Jim Kukral reviews a book on branding your business by David Brier of DBD International. Kukral, who focuses allot on branding in his business coaching, does a great job of covering some of the truly inspiring aspects of the book where related to branding. And they are lessons that can apply to any bu Read More

In this article covering 10 tips for bootstapping your small business, Isabel M. Isidro, managing editor of PowerHomeBiz.com, looks at this great approach of starting a business even without a substantial amount of investment. To be sure, there are different levels of bootstrapping. Some would argue that true bootstrapping can be done using nothin Read More

The key to small business finance is understanding the numbers. What are your profit margins? What are your labor costs compared to the money you're bringing in? Does your business continue to have enough money to pay its debts? From an international wine appraiser to a fast food restaurant to a theatrical lighting company, effective small, or la Read More

Ebook Internet marketing for small business, whether the ebook you create will be sold as a product or used for marketing purposes, begins with locating search engine keywords appropriate to the topic in which you are interested. To get started, Scott Brooks of HowToWriteEbooks.net has created this video showing how to use the "Ask" search engin Read More

In this video, part of a series called "Who Pops Your Popcorn", business consultant Rod Alan Richardson of www.rodalan.com gives a wonderful overview of marketing for small business. In the interview, Rod insists that marketing is particularly important in small business where, he says, there is no room to delegate the responsibility to someone Read More

This article under Small Business on CNNMoney.com explains why small businesses fail. But if you were expecting writer and entrepreneur Jay Goltz to tell you just one or a couple of reasons, forget it. Instead Jay suggests that entrepreneurs MUST be their CFO's without handing the money managing tasks completely to a bookkeeper because only the e Read More

Tips for small business advertising include an understanding that not all advertising can be expected to increase sales directly. Check out the following article from Entrepreneur.com appearing in thestreetadvertising.com. Other objectives for an advertising campaign might include raising awareness, product recognition and brand loyalty. Remember Read More

Another story on the small business credit crunch looks at how small businesses continue to have problems getting financing despite money from government stimulus and Small Business Administration backed loans. Though I'm a bigger fan of bootstrapped startup with less distance to break even, it's hard to understand how so much effort aimed at re Read More

This video from buildamovement.com looks at small business branding particularly for companies under five employees. Certainly, branding has long been an establish approach for big business and multinational corporations, but branding can also be an important issue for small growing businesses. Perhaps the most interesting point in the video is th Read More