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Small business owners sacrificing family life says report

Avatar Posted by wontonu under News
From http://www.startups.co.uk 6099 days ago
Made Hot by: on March 18, 2008 9:57 pm
Small business owners are sacrificing time with their family to ensure their businesses stay afloat, a report has found. Read More

Handling late payments -- and avoiding them

Avatar Posted by TimJustus under Finance
From http://www.kansascity.com 6099 days ago
Made Hot by: on March 18, 2008 7:57 pm
The proven way to handle late payments is to avoid them. This begins by developing a comprehensive credit policy and then implementing it from the start. Read More
As promised, we took 100 submissions and turned them into a downloadable PDF document.

It's 33 pages of tips for marketing, including relationship marketing, marketing strategy, selling, messaging, online marketing and social media.

It's all been packaged up tidily into a document for you to save, give to clients, print, post on your web Read More

Small Business Credit Crunch Survival Kit

Avatar Posted by iandenny under Strategy
From http://iandenny.blogspot.com 6099 days ago
Made Hot by: on March 18, 2008 7:56 pm
After going bust, and seeing the credit crunch on the horizon about to turn towards small business, here's a few tips for what to pack in your small business survival kit Read More
Many people aren't purely mercenary in their business dealings. They care about fairness -- and they should because doing so can maximize their profits. When people are fair minded, they don't need to waste time on elaborate negotiations or enter into complicated contracts to coordinate their marketing channel and maximize profitability, accordi Read More

SBA Loan Programs Face Cuts as Credit Crunch Looms

Avatar Posted by ArmadaIG under Raising Capital
From http://www.allbusiness.com 6100 days ago
Made Hot by: on March 18, 2008 2:43 pm
Given the current economic climate, you would think the government would be doing all it can to bolster Small Business Administration (SBA) loan programs. But the Bush administration is proceeding as if it was business as usual. The administration, in fact, is once again proposing substantial SBA budget cuts, as it has every year since the preside Read More
Short version: a chief marketing technologist (CMT) is the person responsible for leading an organization's marketing technology. A CMT is to the CMO what, in IT-centric firms, the CTO has been to the CIO. Read More

28 Resources For Paid Search Strategies

Avatar Posted by luckycharmer under Online Marketing
From http://www.searchengineguide.com 6100 days ago
Made Hot by: on March 17, 2008 6:32 pm
Paid search is much more than bid management and click-throughs, it's about devising a strategy that compliments your overall online marketing program and providing ROI based on performance which has been quantified at the keyword level. Here are 25 paid search resources ranging from the basics, to best practices, to advanced strategies to measu Read More

Elevator speech expert gives terrible elevator speech

Avatar Posted by jnelson under Sales
From http://www.bnet.com 6100 days ago
Made Hot by: on March 17, 2008 1:48 am
I'll let you be the judge, but I thought the advice from this so-called sales expert was awful. It's so old school. His own example started putting me to sleep. I can't believe he has Fortune 500 companies for clients. What do you think? Read More

Turning Your Small Business Into a Corporation

Avatar Posted by ArmadaIG under Legal
From http://www.usnews.com 6101 days ago
Made Hot by: on March 18, 2008 1:43 am
The most recent data show that only about half of self-employed people in the U.S. workforce run incorporated businesses. Entrepreneurs who fail to incorporate are making a huge mistake. Corporations have a much higher rate of success than sole proprietorships, even when it comes to small businesses. Incorporated small businesses outperform uninco Read More
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