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Picking a partner to go into business with is an interesting challenge, especially when you are just starting out. If you think finding the right life partner and getting married is stressful, think about this: in all likelihood you will be spending nearly double the number of waking hours working with a business partner than you will with your sp Read More

Startups have a hard time staying focused. It's the nature of the beast. The enthusiasm founders have for their startups can very quickly lead to chasing too many opportunities. The big risk? Running in every direction, chasing every lead, idea and opportunity only to realize at the end that you've made very little progress. And this might not Read More

It seems that many small businesses are having trouble finding these key employees in the first place. Three quarters of small business owners surveyed said that finding qualified employees is difficult and nearly three out of ten rely on family members such as their spouse to help them off the clock. 58% of those surveyed said that the benefi Read More

There appears to be a marked difference on how small and large companies deal with the aging U.S. workforce. And according to one survey, small businesses appear to be ahead of the curve when planning for this major demographic shift. In a survey of 404 small business owners, 28% percent of the respondents reported that they had developed plans Read More

The person you want to fill a particular position probably puts those skills to work each day for someone else, meaning you will need to reach that passive candidate with more than a want ad. Read More

Loans intended to help current members of the military, veterans, and their spouses are proving extremely popular. The Patriot Express Loan Initiative has distributed more than $100,000 million since it came into existence in June of last year. Read More

Creativity comes from knowledge. The more knowledge you have, the more creative you can be. Applying creativity to your business has the primary purpose of generating profits. If it doesn't generate profits, it's not creative. Here are some ways of gaining the knowledge needed to be more creative. Read More

Time Magazine's online edition claims customer service is going away. If we are to believe a recent article in Time, before long we'll be self-servicing ourselves in every way imaginable from grocery checkout, to hospital check-in, from computer trouble shooting to phone bill and credit-card problem resolution. Read More

What is demographic bidding? It's a feature that helps you target your ads to users of a particular age group (such as ages 18-24), by gender, or to combinations of those groups. You can use demographic bidding whether you are using contextual or placement targeting and with both CPC and CPM bidding. You can refine your reach based on users' gen Read More

Start-ups go out of business all the time, often before they even have a chance to even really start up at all. The main culprit in the savage slaughter of these young establishments is the same perpetrator behind the bulk of our fiscal difficulties: Debt. Read More