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If you’re thinking of starting your own business, you might be doing some research online. Whether it’s in blogs like this one, forums or question and answer sites, they will all tell you to write a business plan. Unfortunately, that doesn’t do you much good if you don’t know what a business plan is. The definition of the term “business plan” might vary depending on who you ask. What I’ll try to do in this post is define the term business plan as we see it Read More

Evoking the right frame of mind; getting and staying motivated; learning to lead, grow, and innovate. These are all reasons we entrepreneurs read books. Amazon lists nearly 27,000 titles under Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Some are good, some not so much, and a few are outstanding. Read More

Google Analytics is a great free tool for businesses. Reports like Top Traffic Sources help business owners identify what online tools are working best for them. Read More

Shopping and the Web. They go together like Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Well, maybe not quite, but Internet shopping or E-commerce is one of the fastest-growing industry in the world.
It's fairly easy to set up an e-commerce website and sell almost anything from ... Read More

Google introduced Google Starred Results and what does this mean for search engine optimization and search engine marketers? The basic idea is, searchers can now ‘star’ items that appear in search results and when they conduct the search again, all the starred results will appear on top of all other search result items. Read More

Why does your small business need a blog and what is a blog anyway? How will blogging increase my business? How do search engines react to blogs? All of these questions and more are answered in this informative article. Read More

The slowing economy and the possibility that we're headed for a recession are worrisome subjects for small business owners, whose biggest concern is how to keep sales coming in when customers are becoming shy about spending. Read More

These tips are written from the basis of an early-stage startup with just one or two founders. It's based on startups in the U.S. (I've never started a company anywhere else). It's not meant to be exhaustive or detailed, butto just provide some of the core elements that startups usually consider when contemplating whether or not they need to hi Read More

While many email marketers adhere to opt-out laws, many aren't taking the opportunity to garner feedback and potentially retain a customer by engaging them in an exit conversation, found a recent survey by Lyris. Read More

Readers of newspaper Web sites are 52% more likely to share their opinions than those who do not visit newspaper sites, according to study conducted by Millward Brown and sponsored by the Newspaper National Network and Newspaper Association of America in September and October. Newspaper Web site visitors who were surveyed were also more apt to bel Read More