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If your taxes are killing you, here are 5 quick tips for finding more deductions and lower business tax costs. Read More

Health insurance has always been pricey for small and midsize businesses. But after years of extracting hefty increases from smaller corporate customers, some insurers are showing more flexibility. Why? With the overall market for health insurance flat, carriers are battling to steal market share from one another. "There's a price war going on n Read More

Evan Williams is one of those many entrepreneurs that I admire. Well, he is one of the team behind two hugely successful web applications - Blogger and Twitter. Here, I'm going to re-phrase and re-think over one of his recent articles - Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea. Evan goes deep with the following points: Tractability Read More

Warning: When it comes to making ads relevant for multicultural audiences, doing it wrong is worse than not doing it all. A new study from OMD Worldwide found that ethnic groups are turned off by ads that rely on stereotypes and caricatures rather than meaningful cultural cues. Read More

The world of stresses and worries and errands and projects and noise that we must all endure inflicts upon us a mind full of clutter and chaos. A mind that sometimes cannot find the calm that we so desperately seek. So how do we begin decluttering? It's actually not difficult, if you give it a little thought: simplifying shouldn't be made complica Read More

Social software is a hot area in today's world. Short text messages connect a huge portion of the world's population and are a major carrier of social contact for a whole generation. On first glance, a lot of what goes on in these communications channels seems mundane and worthless. There is another aspect, though. These social systems, by allow Read More

How can a soloist surpass much larger companies and reach the prestigious Inc. 500 roster of fast-growing privately held firms? By staying nimble, creating a deep network of referrals, and using creative thinking to transfer risk and retain profits for his own firm.

Those nuggets of advice were among the gems shared during a recent chat with Ji Read More

These tips are meant for technology startups, but many of the ideas apply just as well for any startup. This is a collection of startup tips covering software engineering, infrastructure, PR, conferences, legal and finance. They describe best practices for an early-stage startup. We hope that you will find these tips useful, but also please rememb Read More

There are times where it can be difficult for small business to compete in the paid search environment. As the cost of targeting keywords on venues such as Google AdWords continues to increase, many small businesses are finding it difficult to keep pace. We recently encountered a scenario like this with a client's Google AdWords campaign. The mai Read More

Okay, so it may not exactly be a business tip, but considering how often I use Google in my business I thought I passs these extremely helpful tips along. My favorites are the currency converter and using the tilde to find related terms. Read More