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If you want to know the best strategies for growing your small business, use of digital technology, websites and social media is the answer. So says Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and founder of Square. Dorsey says it is the availability of commodity technology that allows small businesses to c Read More

It's a real challenge to find adequate funding for startups these days It's led some entrepreneurs to take truly unconventional steps. But none of these perhaps is so unconventional as the the entrepreneur in this story who actually slept on her couch and rented out her bedroom for extra funds. Rea Read More

John Whaley takes the lead in this episode of M5 Live as he shares the best practices for establishing a BYO program including: using a secure container and setting proper expectations. Read More

It's not that they mean too, but the behavior and basic personalities of some of your employees may make them a greater security risk. In these days of massive security breaches when any business can be a target, it's helpful to figure out ahead of time what practices and perhaps even which employe Read More

There is no place to hide in the low- to no-growth economy of the last few years. Salespeople and sales organizations can neither ride an expansion wave nor hide behind recessionary data. Read More

Many of the tasks you perform daily in your small business can be outsourced or automated. This gives you more time to concentrate on the stuff that really matters. Stuff like growing your business, creating new products, researching new markets and so forth. Tools like Boomerang, Odesk and Fivrr c Read More

A small business guide to social media mastery, provided as a very interesting infographic. This great tool can easily serve as a reference for small business owners when implementing their social media strategy. Read More

Hi – I’m Claff. Nice to meet you!

Before I dish some dirt on my startup experience – here’s some background.

I’ve worked 15 different jobs in my 27 years. I’ve collected degrees like Pokemon – you gotta catch ‘em all! I’ve got 8 pieces of paper, from a Financial Planning Diploma through to an Read More

A new company gives site owners the opportunity to create incentives that convert visitors into leads. Creatively called Incentivibe, the company was co-founded by CEO Adeel Vanthaliwala and chief technology officer Abdul Basit Munda after they folded up a previous company. The pair realized their Read More

Is your small business turning away business without even realizing it? If you don’t provide a multitude of payment options, the answer might be “yes,” according to the Small Business Payments Survey, a new study conducted for WePay.
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