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A competitor has just started a 50% off price promotion. What do you do; panic and do your own 50% off price promotion, ignore it or quickly work out what is best for your business and customers? Read More

Consider these ten tips for a new small business from Yahoo! Small Business. Notice that among the important considerations is that you start your business on a shoestring and try to save as much money as possible before getting started. The idea here is that you will avoid large amounts of outside investment and credit that will make it take long Read More

A blog about a recent trip to Ghana from "Entrepreneurs at ASU" (Arizona State University) raises the question of whether social entrepreneurship is the next small business trend. Sponsored by GlobalResolve at ASU, an initiative aimed at bringing economic development and other tools to the developing world, the trip looked at many factors connec Read More

Certified public accountant Amber Hill suggests some thoughts about how to find government small business grants. In this video, Hill suggests some of the Websites and resources for the small business person seeking grant funding as well as the information and paperwork that needs to be assembled before applying. From personal experience, hunting Read More

It is really a simple answer. We learn how to drive. We learn how to read. We learn how to write. No one teaches us the definition of perseverance and how to manage finances whether personal or business. No one teaches you BEFORE you open your business how to market. Ten things you need to open a business Read More

This column from small business expert Steve Strauss examines tips for small business automation using computer technology to do things like generating response e-mails, sending out invoices and even automating your basic sales through eCommerce. Strauss's argument? Automating some functions you and your staff are spending time on now will allow Read More

Comparing requests for the reciprocal exchange of links with proactive link sharing to build strong social networks for businesses. Read More

nterest in Linkedin from lawyers, accountants and other professionals has taken off recently. And it makes sense. Despite the hype over Twitter and Facebook, Linkedin offers the greatest opportunity for professionals to make connections that lead to business. Never one to skip jumping on a bandwagon, here are my top 10 Linkedin tips for pro Read More

Jackie Huba, co-author of Creating Customer Evangelists: How Loyal Customers Become a Volunteer Salesforce, corrects 3 common misconceptions about social media's role with generating word-of-mouth. Read More

Online marketing can be an effective marketing technique not just for companies with online business but for those with brick and mortar establishments as well. There are currently billions of internet users around the world and many of these now use the internet as their primary source of information. In the last few years, readership of print m Read More