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Keeping great small business employees is as simple as defining a job description. Hold on to great employees with tips from a business consultant in this free small business video. Expert: Daniel Diener Read More

Jonathan Fields, the "Career Renegade", challenges entrepreneurs to avoid trying to duplicate past success. Duplicating past efforts may be a temptation but such attempts are often unsuccessful because in most cases circumstances in the market and in others have changed. Watch the video for Jonathan's inspiring message. Read More

The New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Group recently carried out a study of recession survival strategies. Their findings should be of interest to business owners everywhere. They concluded that seven factors helped businesses through the recession, and also that these factors are well applied to small as well as large business interests. Read More

An oldie but goodie. This is hands down my favorite post of all time on startup, as relevant today as the day it was pecked out on Kawasaki's keyboard. Credit crunch? Lack of investment? No problem! Create a product, find someone who will pay for it and go! Number 3 is the one that resonates with me (and, no, it's not because I like the idea of Read More

So, what I'm wondering is this - What fundamental marketing “drills” should you, and every one in the organization be doing every single day to become marketing MVPs? (or at least get off the bench) Read More

If your business limits its online presence to advertising banners and blogging, it's missing out. The Internet provides powerful networking opportunities that allow users to effectively target their audience by logging on to social sites like LinkedIn, Digg and more. Take advantage of these tools by asserting your company's presence online and Read More

In a discussion with the head of sales of a mid-sized pharmaceutical company, he wanted to know why some front-line sales managers are much better than others at hiring top performers. Read More

It is essential for a sales professional to get a huge number of quality leads in order to widen their market. The advent of new technology has paved way to make this easier for modern sales professionals. There are so many tools, so many platforms, so many softwares, so many websites that a sales professional can utilize to get leads but only one Read More

Cristian Dorobantescu, a Romanian entrepreneur and blogger, has some interesting takes on business startup from his perspective as a business person operating in Eastern Europe. Here is his reaction, drawing on his own experience, to an article from Entrepreneur.com on how to pitch to investors with a link to the original. Read More

How should you define corporate values for your startup business? Blogger Ben Yoskovitz asks how to balance opportunities with maintaining a company vision. Read More