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In light of the funding crisis in America, many existing business owners are struggling to obtain funding and those who are finding it difficult to find a job have an interest in starting a business but can’t get the funding or are afraid of some of the obstacles in starting a business. So what is an entrepreneur to do? Read More

Since April 2009, the Friday FREE White Paper List has cataloged over 800 FREE white papers without requiring a single email address or piece of personal information in order to download and review them.

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This is part 1 of a series by Jonathan I. Ezor, a guest blogger at The New Entrepreneur at Business Week designed to unravel the secret language of attorneys for perspective entrepreneurs and business owners. The premise, of course, is that whether or not a small business owner has hired an attorney to deal with these things he/she ought to at least understand this stuff. While there is no shorta Read More

January is usually a month filled with hope. For some, it's also filled with fantasies of unshackling themselves from their corporate desks, and becoming their own bosses. Although only a small percentage of people actually have the courage to take... Read More

A panel of attorney's discuss a wide range of small business legal issues from power of attorney to contracts at a meeting of the board of the National Association of Women Business Owners. This video from Small Business Television claims to include 25 small business legal tips within 25 minutes and honestly I didn't count that carefully. Also there is some exchange with the audience including qu Read More

Any marketer who is truthful and honest will tell you that social media marketing (SMM) is still an emerging concept. It hasn’t fully matured and there is no secret formula that will always work. Yet I continue to see seminars on social media pop up everywhere. This would be fine if most of them didn’t declare to have an “expert” speaker. I’m unaware of how anyone can be a true expert in social Read More

Average is the benchmark of those businesses that will one day fail or be left behind as others in the industry find ways to be amazing, which is defined by Encarta as “so extraordinary or wonderful as to be barely believable”. What you should be asking yourself is “What is the average and how can I be amazing?” Read More

Only 4% of US consumers follow a brand on Twitter and only 9% have become fans on sites like Facebook. Read More

This first day of the year MMX, I have been contemplating about my three keywords for 2010. I will sit down and create a mindmap as Chris Brogan has done. I will use GoalEnforcer and Pulse Smartpen in order to capture my ideas and goals and put them on paper. I will listen to Dr. Edwin A. Locke's talk from 1985 (cassette tape), Setting Goals to Improve Your Life and Happiness. Read More

Ashton Kutcher, Mr. big time TV star and still one of the most famous Twitter users on Earth because of the huge number of followers he's amassed not to mention friends on Facebook, is building a social media business of a very different kind. While waiting around to see 'Avatar' over the New Years holiday, I happened to pick up a copy of Fast Company with the following article. What's amazing fo Read More