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One blogger, Rosalind Resnick on Entrepreneur.com, lays out an alternative bailout proposal. Instead of spending $700 billion on large conglomerates like AIG, the Fed should offer businesses and consumers loans at the 2% federal funds rate so homeowners could refinance at much lower rates and businesses could have immediate access to the cheap cap Read More

One of the fast-growing trends in small business these days is teleworking - employees working from home or away from the company's main office. Surging gas prices driving up the already high cost of commuting and growing environmental concerns are just the most recent and headline-grabbing inducements that make telework increasingly attractive to Read More

How are the credit markets affecting small businesses in the United States. To try to get some statistical data to answer their questions, the author decided to take a look at peer-to-peer lending. Peer-to-peer lending gets at part of the effect of the credit markets on small businesses because some entrepreneurs borrow money from other individual Read More

A lot has been made of the recent post at Google's Webmaster Central Blog regarding duplicate content. The post, entitled Demystifying the “Duplicate Content Penalty”, basically calls into question the idea that a site can be “penalized” for having significantly similar content to another site and places the blame on webmasters and SEOs for perpe Read More

Regardless of the industry, everyone has had a challenging experience with customer service. Because the Internet has given businesses the opportunity to connect with more consumers, the focus on customer service quality has given way to customer service quantity. Here are five key practices (starting with the easiest) to creating an exceptional c Read More

Colleen Stanley discusses 6 key areas of sales and marketing misalignment that causes companies to lose clients and money. Read this and develop a harmonious relationship between your sales and marketing departments - it's in everyone's best interest! Read More

Part two of the Business Blues series explores the ins and outs, and unintended headaches, of getting your business a domain name. Read More

You may never get a star on Hollywood Boulevard, but many bloggers are making their companies and themselves famous by blogging. And more than half say it's helped them get recognized at work. Hooray for Bloggywood ... Read More

A great story about how a TypePad representative used Twitter to provide stellar customer service. Read More

For simple paperwork and filing tasks, LegalZoom is a decent alternative to overpriced lawyers. Read More