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Music business manager Barry Bergman recommends thinking of beginning a music career the same way you would think of starting a small business. The idea is to begin small. Instead of mounting a large tour or thinking big from the beginning, Bergman says it's important to develop a small base of support, forget about big production investments and Read More

We asked our readers to contribute their best green business tips. We wanted you to share your ideas for going green in your small business. As usual, the Small Business Trends readers came through. We were able to collect 100 awesome green small business tips. Read More

Small business tips for motivating employees in this video by presenter Pat Goodwin include recognizing an employees worth. In fact, giving employees appreciation can be a huge part of motivating employees especially for small businesses that cannot be as competitive on salary. Most amazing are small businesses who fail to show appreciation to emp Read More

If the banks don't start opening their vaults to small businesses... Read More

s a small business, you may dismiss the idea of having a privacy policy. However, with identity theft on the rise, affecting almost 10 million victims in 2008 (Javelin Strategy & Research: www.javelinstrategy.com), privacy has become highly relevant to both consumers and businesses. Read More

Free cash for your business is rare but a reality, says this article from CNN Money.com Small Business. The trick, the article says, is figuring out where to look. Sources include organizations like TechColumbus in Columbus, Ohio, Ben Franklin Partnership in Philadelphia and Maine Technology Institute in Gardiner, Maine. The article also gives oth Read More

These top five small business mistakes come courtesy of Jeff Wuorio of the Microsoft Small Business Center. Have you made any of these? If so, Jeff's included some advice to sidestep these pitfalls and hopefully put your small ambitions back on course again. If you've experienced troubles like these or others not mentioned please add them in the Read More

Are you thinking of starting some sort of Social Media project for your company? A blog perhaps? It is increasingly common for companies to pay people to post comments and other content on their company blogs, and of course, having a lot of traffic helps. However, if you are considering starting to pay for posts, think about this... Read More

Many companies don't understand the value of adopting social media for their B2B marketing. They still think that marketing on social media wouldn't benefit their company, and they believe that social media marketing is only suitable for business-to-consumer (B2C) companies. However the fact is that social marketing is perhaps the most valuable an Read More

Pay czar Kenneth Feinberg last week said he had ordered seven companies that have received billions of dollars in taxpayer money to slash the base salaries of their top executives by an average of 90 percent and cut total compensation -- cash, stock and perks -- in half. Read More