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Crowdsourcing outsources tasks traditionally performed by your staff or a contractor to a community or crowd of people through an open call. Small businesses are finding they can use crowdsourcing to cut the costs of projects significantly, gain greater insight into public opinion about their produ Read More

How Violight adapted its toothbrush sanitizer into a cleaning product for cell phones. For six years, Violight, a $9 million company based in Yonkers, New York, has made products that zap germs off of toothbrushes with ultraviolet light. Read More

Have you read how office managers rejoiced because of Facebook outage last September? Now, I don’t blame you if you think this is exaggerating it a bit. It sounds too crazy to be true but then I won’t be surprised if it is. Read More

In recent news, a final ruling had been released regarding the implementation of the Women’s Procurement Program. The goal of said program is for women-owned businesses to obtain federal contracts. The passing of this legislation would undoubtedly bring about improvements in the previously underrep Read More

When opportunity knocks, make sure to open the door. This is especially true for small business. I have read The Great Un-Cracked Opportunity: Small and Medium-Sized Businesses and the problems Ben Yoskovitz enumerated are so common that most small businesses unknowingly have them. Read More

Bootstrapping is fast gaining momentum again since startup entrepreneurs cannot get loans from banks and other investors. Some say it is an art. But for me, it’s more like a way of living. Read More

Business relationships are a lot like personal relationships. It takes hard work, perseverance and patience to get results. Read More

In an ideal world, everyone should have a fair shot in asking for a loan. We can't deny the fact that loans can spell the difference between growth or deterioration especially in the small business enterprise. Read More

There’s no doubt in the minds of business owners that branding is important. How can it not be so? Every blog site which offers small business help has discussed the importance of it at least once in their posts. Read More

Running a business is a lot similar to how you live your life. There are ups and downs, mistakes and triumphs and of course the proverbial lessons that you’ve learned to get you back in the saddle. Read More