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Would you like to know which candidate will best represent the interests of small business? You're not the only one wondering. A poll at SBTV.com found most people believe Barack Obama would be the most responsive to the small business owner. Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee followed, each grabbing 20 percent of the votes in the informal survey. Read More

If the U.S. economy is about to take a dirt nap for a quarter or four, time to cut marketing budget, right? Not necessarily, according to a 2005 report out of Penn State's Smeal College of Business, “Turning adversity into advantage: Does proactive marketing during a recession pay off?” Read More

Michael Port video (author of Book Yourself Solid) from small business marketing seminar - funny, relevant and easy to understand small business marketing and how to talk about what you do. Read More

A social news site emulates the Digg model and offers small business people a focused web presence for issues of interest to them. bizSugar launched with the goal of reaching small and medium businesses with a social media presence dedicated to business interests. Read More

Federally speaking, there are a wide variety of tax benefits for small businesses. Many depend on the type of business you own. One of the most fundamental, but dramatic, is available to LLCs and corporations with S-status. If they're eligible, they only pay tax at the shareholder/owner level, as opposed to paying at the corporate level and again Read More

The editors at Marketing Prowess are issuing an alert. If you aren't using or currently exploring ways to utilize online video in your marketing efforts then you are at risk. You are at risk of loosing market share, site traffic, and search engine ranking position.

According to a BurstMedia survey, 7 out of 10 adult internet users viewed online Read More

Four government agencies have online sites devoted to helping small businesses cope with government-related programs and general business information. The Small Business Administration has a toll-free number and an e-mail answer desk; the Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration and the Kauffman Foundation offer one-to-one coun Read More

Some people believe that earning the most money will make them incredibly happy. What they probably don't know is that being incredibly happy may not earn them the most money. A new study finds that when it comes to financial success, you're better off being a moderately happy person rather than someone who's chronically ecstatic. Read More

With the millions of websites out there, you think you're safe. You think the statistics are in your favor. That your website would never get hacked. Well, I'm here to tell you it CAN happen to you. The Small Business Trends website was hacked this past Christmas Eve. What happened is part of a larger and disturbing trend in which small-business Read More

This is probably the best analysis I've seen for creating an effective call to action for your website. According to Ann Smarty, "With calls to action everything is important: the color of your buttons and supporting elements, the language you use to describe the action, the place on the page where you locate them, the additional elements that e Read More