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Over the past six years, I've picked up a lot of time management tips. Some of them have been helpful and, frankly, some have been useless. Here, I've compiled the ten that have served me best. And yes, I'm sure you'll have heard some of them before ... but are you actually doing them? Read More

Besides obvious employee benefits like health care and disability insurance, About.com small business guide Darrell Zahorsky suggests these eight more uncommon employee benefits your small business may consider offering. Employee benefits can be most helpful for employee retention thus reducing the level of rapid turnover in your staff. But if you haven't thought of these particular little induce Read More

When it comes to business, cash is king. Managing your business’s cash is one of the most important activities of an entrepreneur and small business owner. Most start-up businesses that fail do so because of a shortage of cash. In most turnaround situations, the very first problem that needs to be addressed is related to cash– working capital. Without cash, how can you market? And, without market Read More

Tips on how to manage small home business in a legitimate way. Learn and apply some good ideas from this article. Read More

Are you scared of the Made in China label? So am I. So are most Chinese. In this article, we are going to look at the three consumer behavior trends that are happening in the country. Consumer spending in China is increasing, but, just as important, it is also evolving. Every company selling products there needs to evolve, too. Read More

You've got a great product and a great market you believe is ready to buy. But hold on a minute. Don't take one step further before developing a small business sales plan. It will contain important information like what the pricing should be on your product, how and where you'll be selling it and even how you will be taking the payments. A small business sales plan is a road map getting you from Read More

Lots of people write business plans and then leave them to gather dust. Others run a mile from the very notion of a business plan. But is it just a paper exercise or what is it all about? Do you really need one and iIs there a simple way of approaching it? Read More

Want to know more about what's going on in the minds of venture capitalists? These are the blogs of venture capitalists and VC firms from around the world – ranked by their number of Google Reader subscribers. Please note, there are many great blogs with fewer subscribers as the number of subscribers doesn’t necessarily correlate to the quality of content. Read More

This article is about a recent visit to a coffee shop and why the author chose one over the other. - And guess what, it had nothing to do with the coffee! It's about the experience that each place offered. So what experience does your small business deliver? Read More