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Comparing the era of big brand, product-focused businesses to today's rise of the new entrepreneurial personal brand Read More

Some inspirational lessons on how the retail business is tough and every moment and every quarter counts. Read More

Many small businesses start out being run from home. It's cheaper and smarter than investing in a pricey office, before your business gets off the ground. Also, if you're delivering a service, it may not be necessary to have an office or other facility.

This post outlines 4 (actually 5) reasons that you need a private mailbox service, such as provided by the UPS Store. For security reasons .. Read More

The about us page on a website serves as the great purpose of informing our visitors what our business does and what we can help them with. However, it is not the coolest kid in school and truly how many of your website visitors actually make it there? Probably not too many, since the home page seems to be the place to give a little snidbit about the business and the about us page is just a place to go for more detail. Let’s reinvent this page to make it popular and make it a place our visitors will want to check out on a day-to-day basis.
Here is what you can do to make the about us page cool for your viewer Read More

If you are in the market for business financing you may have noticed that the SBA is tentatively reporting a healthy increase in small business lending.

However, finding the right bank for your small business financing needs can still be a time-consuming challenge.

So just who is lending? And what is your best strategy for finding and approaching a bank? Here are five tips to help you find small business friendly banks Read More

One of the exciting parts about marketing is the ability to be original and creative especially as a small business owner. However if you just copy what someone else does it can harm your brand and confuse your customers Read More

Two decades ago, USA Today shattered the mold of what a newspaper could be. Bright images. Great graphs and graphics. Bold colors. And, in addition to great content...much more! And in the process, it transformed the industry and smashed the competition.

The impact of this sweeping change has implications and repercussions for your blog Read More

I just read a rather depressing piece of information: for the first half of 2010 the rate of new business start-ups was the lowest it's been in 24 years. According to a blog post for the Wall Street Journal "the 3.4% first-quarter start-up rate and the 3.9% in the second quarter mark the lowest first-half since (executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas) started recording data in 1986." The reason for such a dramatic decrease from last year is less than obvious Read More

Got Subscribers? The Founder Of A Smart Bear Jason Cohen Dishes Subscription Secrets. Interview with Jason Cohen on building a better blog Read More

Interviews with thirteen unique entrepreneurs who share how they built their brand through online content ranging from Gary Vaynerchuk to Chris Brogan Read More