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Many small businesses start out being run from home. It's cheaper and smarter than investing in a pricey office, before your business gets off the ground. Also, if you're delivering a service, it may not be necessary to have an office or other facility.

This post outlines 4 (actually 5) reasons that you need a private mailbox service, such as provided by the UPS Store. For security reasons .. Read More

The about us page on a website serves as the great purpose of informing our visitors what our business does and what we can help them with. However, it is not the coolest kid in school and truly how many of your website visitors actually make it there? Probably not too many, since the home page seems to be the place to give a little snidbit about the business and the about us page is just a place to go for more detail. Let’s reinvent this page to make it popular and make it a place our visitors will want to check out on a day-to-day basis.
Here is what you can do to make the about us page cool for your viewer Read More

If you are in the market for business financing you may have noticed that the SBA is tentatively reporting a healthy increase in small business lending.

However, finding the right bank for your small business financing needs can still be a time-consuming challenge.

So just who is lending? And what is your best strategy for finding and approaching a bank? Here are five tips to help you find small business friendly banks Read More

The idea of going into business with a spouse can sound perfect, after all what can be better than working with your partner in life. But it can be tricky business, we've seen many couples try to be business partners only to find their finances and their relationship can't survive the shift. So to help couples navigate through a husband and wife venture, we have put together some tips to making a spousal business work Read More

Inaction is the enemy of the entrepreneur. Get moving today. You'll figure out what works, what doesn't (that'll be a real long list initially), and most importantly, you'll be able to go from there and start building something of real value Read More

Are you seeing all these posts about how we are at the "halfway mark?"

The sales articles you are reading may be misleading. Read More

There is a lot of research that goes into starting a new business. Here are ten tips to help you with researching your new business Read More

What’s your business marketing message? Many small businesses are confused about what their marketing message is and how they should communicate it to the outside world. Here are seven steps you can take to develop a marketing message that grabs the attention of your customers, speaks to them, and promotes action Read More

Back in my days in the army, I was a pretty good long distance runner. There were only a hand full of people in my infantry unit who could compete with me when the race distance hits over 10km. One of the few lessons I had learned from the experienced runners at my first half marathon (about 22km) had made such a big impact in me that I have learned to apply it to my start-up business as well Read More

The latest trend is using Facebook to take your surveys viral. Facebook also allows you to target your audience very specifically – based on traditional demographic models (age, gender, sex etc.)

So here is a step by step instructions on how to recruit users to come to a survey from facebook Read More