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Jerry Kalish of Retirement Plan Blog explains what entrepreneurs should consider in deciding what retirement plan to offer their employees. Read More

Another WSJ piece on small business and the presidential election. This one looks at two big divisive issues when it comes to businesses: health care and taxes. Read More

With the presidential campaign in full swing, the candidates will no doubt set their sights on the huge group of voters who own their own businesses. But winning their support will be a daunting task for Barack Obama and John McCain. Read More

How do we know when we've failed? How do we know when we've succeeded? If we don't make the effort to include customers ' needs and desires in our interaction with them, and our competitors do, what message does this send? Are you inviting user feedback? Read More

Sometimes a patent gets granted that sounds bogus, but the bank account behind it makes it "real". Page Down key? Come'on guys. Your take-away: 1) Consider keeping your Intellectual Property (IP) under wraps before you release or test your product and 2) Seek Qualified IP-related Legal Counsel. Read More

In a weak economy, it's especially important to get closer to your most loyal and profitable customers. Allocating dollars to research is one of the best ways to uncover what your customers want and what they really think about your business. Too often, though, companies go about customer satisfaction research the wrong way or pooh-pooh results th Read More

With the cost of gasoline and airfare rising, sales managers need to squeeze every bit of savings out of their travel expenses. At the same time, they must increase sales in a slower economy. This article shows how computerized mapping and GPS helps do both. Read More

While online mapping services and GPS devices are great for helping people get to where they're going - it's more important to those of us in Sales to know where we need to go in the first place! And while we're at it -it would be nice to know if we're contacting the best opportunity in the area - and shoot - since we're already there - is th Read More

Popular entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and blogger, Guy Kawasaki understands business. Guy is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine, and author of eight books on innovative business. Here he shares with us a list of the five most important lessons he's learned as an entrepreneur. Read More

Is there any good news in the dismal data on European venture capital? Read More