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If your small business has struggled to get financing in the past, or you are thinking of getting a loan to fund new growth, here are some tips to help you understand what SBA-loans are available, where to get them, and how to prepare a winning loan application Read More

Interview with the author of Six Pixels Of Separation Mitch Joel on how you can maximize the principles in the book for your business Read More

It seems that credit unions and community banks, the kinds of institutions that usually loan to small businesses, are prevented from doing so as much as they would like because of a credit cap that limits the amount of lending permitted for them under law. Now credit unions are asking that the cap be lifted allowing them, and community banks, to approve more loans for small businesses. And guess who's objecting to the change! Read More

Thanks in part to the recession, businesses especially in the "lower-middle market" are handling their own financing with buyers when it comes time to sell. When a buyer can't get the loans they once did to cover purchase of a company from a bank often the business being purchased is providing the additional needed financing usually with longer involvement in the company after closing Read More

11 Lessons I Learned Raising Venture Capital

We recently just completed raising venture capital, (a Series A financing), in which we raised $1.1M. The round was led by MentorTech ventures, with participation from Amicus Capital and prominent Bay Area and Seattle angels. We started fundraising in earnest in August of 2009, so from start to finish it took us 8 months. Raising money was a lot harder and took a lot longer than we expected, but obviously with determination and a bit of luck it can be done Read More

One of the most effective ways to grow your business is also one of the oldest: networking. Small business expert Rieva Lesonsky offers tips to make networking easier, more effective and even fun. Read More

Next week is National Small Business Week. Even if you can't make it to the events in DC you can still get involved. Read More

101 Marketing Strategies is a series of videos and interviews with REAL-LIFE examples of people that are executing smarter, faster, cheaper marketing. Read More

This is an article I wrote about problems I discovered by simply going to my online store website and acting like a customer. The truth is that I rely on Google Analytics way too much and check my stats way too often. Read More

Social media marketing is a hot topic in business news these days, and we’ll continue to add to the conversation here. In this post we’re going to dive more deeply into social media marketing with an encore video from Ramon DeLeon, “The pizza guy to know in downtown Chicago”.

After a few quick tips by Kamau Jackson, Ramon gives a step-by step master's class on how to apply social media to your business. This is sure to be helpful to any business owner or entrepreneur who's considering, or currently using social media in a profitable, intelligent way.
Read the full article here: http://bit.ly/9QARh9
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