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This post from Caron Beesly examines the home based business market and tips on entering it. According to Beesly, about 52 percent of all small business are based in the home, a result of the lower cost and lower risk this approach can provide. There are, of course, a wide range of businesses that can be run from the home, often with little or no Read More

Small business expansion may seem like a crazy idea in the midst of an economic recession. But that's exactly the path some entrepreneurs have chosen either to react to an eroding market by introducing new product lines or to expand products and services while others are pulling back to weather hard economic times. The following article looks at Read More

Need ideas on how to drive traffic to your social tools like Facebook and Twitter? Check out this post on how your business card may be the answer. Read More

If you want to find the happiest people in the U.S., look first to small business owners, a recent survey says. Read the full article in the New York Times small business section along with an exhaustive list of how other workers rank. It's probably no surprise to anyone in this community that small business owners, who can often control their ow Read More

What Happens When Someone Copies Your Posts? twinsThere's a bit of a debate that goes on in different corners of the blog world about the somewhat common practice of republishing blog posts via RSS feed. The republisher, generally someone trying to create content without any work for the purpose search engine traffic and AdSense revenue, simply Read More

Facebook Adds Twitterlike Tagging Feature Tagging or bookmarking websites, images, and people is a tactic that is somewhat synonymous with social media. When you send an @reply through twitter you are effectively tagging that person and linking to them in your tweet. It's an effective tool on twitter and allows the twitterverse to see your link Read More

What's important when you write a business plan for your new business? Are there good free business plan templates available? Read Scott Fox's rather suprising advice on business plans and why you may NOT NEED ONE! Read More

I had a business for 10 years. These tips are actually pieces of my experience, broken down in several areas, like projects, money, team, partnerships and strategy. Read More

Listening is important for any business. A way to do that is through marketing research to understand what consumers care about, and get insights to what they think about you. However, it is usually quite expensive and time consuming, and you would only be able to capture a static snapshot of consumer interests. Read More

The Friday FREE White Paper List is a summary of the free white papers that have been posted during the past week on Twitter. Each white paper is completely FREE and does not require either email registration or any other personal information. This is a great way to review white paper examples and learn new techniques. This week features a white p Read More