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10 Ways to Make Your Web Site Answer Customer Phone Calls As a small business, it’s important to have contact with your customers. But some phone calls could easily be handled by your Web site--saving time for you and your customers. Here are 10 ideas for how to tweak your Web site to handle some routine calls. Read More

Dealing with Criticism: When Bad Things Happen to Good Business Owners Running a business can be a thankless job. Customers having a bad day take out their frustrations on you, someone posts a nasty reply to one of your blog entries, or a dissatisfied customer shares their unhappiness about you with all their Facebook friends. Here are three tips to help you deal with negative feedback and critic Read More

Top 10 Ways Retailers Can Sell More This Holiday Season Even though Black Friday has come and gone, there is still time for retailers to increase their chances of having a good holiday shopping season. Here are ten things you can do to boost your holiday sales in the remaining days before Christmas. Read More

A Surefire 6-Step Process for Selecting the Best Vendor Sometimes choosing a supplier or service provider is as simple as asking a friend who they use in their business. Other times you need to go through a formal selection process. To make sure the vendor you choose is the best one to provide the service or product you need, use these six steps. Read More

Calculate your startup costs so you know how much money you need to get your small business or home business started and run it until it becomes profitable. Read More

Should You Purchase or Lease Business Equipment? Leasing an expensive piece of equipment makes it more affordable month to month, but it can cost you more in the end. Purchasing outright, however, is not always the best option either. Find out why. Read More

Small business owners and self-employed professionals can increase marketing success by avoiding these business-sabotaging errors. Read More

There's a familiar litany of cloud computing benefits, from lower capital expenses and fast deployments to ubiquitous access and bringing enterprise-class technology to smaller companies. But I recently came across a handful of under-radar-advantages that cloud storage promises bring to your small or midsize business. Read More

There are three main components banks review when underwriting your loan application. The knowledge and understanding of these issues can greatly increase your chance of success while also save you the time of applying for a loan program you may not qualify for due to your current situation. Read More

Cash flow and cost containment are concerns for all businesses, but they can be particularly challenging to the nation's smallest companies. Convenience stores, restaurants, small businesses, daycare centers, and home businesses can cut costs by purchasing from wholesale clubs. Read More