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This week Microsoft unveiled their rival search engine Bing, to challenge Google's market dominance. The company is attempting to position itself as a "decision engine" and is throwing its marketing... Read More

Small business startup training is available from SCORE. SCORE “Counselors to America's Small Business” and The Company Corporation have released a new version of How to Really Start Your Own Business. This popular free workbook is available at SCORE's 370 offices nationwide. Read More

Sales are picking up, but layoffs and poor credit conditions persist, according to a recent survey of small business owners. Read More

Rich Christiansen and Ron E. Porter, authors of "Bootstrap Business", recently spoke to the North Front Entrepreneur Alliance about how to start a successful business with effective networking skills, good business intelligence and only a small amount of cash. Read More

Ideas to promote your small business particularly a new business including using social media like Facebook, blogs, YouTube etc. and working to get press coverage of your venture. Read More

Your time in front of a prospective customer is extremely valuable. The hardest part of the sales process can sometimes be just getting quality time in front of the prospect to ask questions. When you get to this point, you definitely want to make the most of your opportunity. You never know, this might be your only chance to advance the sale. Read More

A common marketing exercise tells us to list all the adjectives we want customers to associate with our company or product. The result often looks like this (real slide, source withheld to protect the guilty. Read More

The power of Twitter is real. DO not discount having your content and books reviewed in 140 characters. Read More

The U.S. Department of Justice has stepped up its antitrust investigation of the book class-action settlement between Google and groups representing authors and publishers. So Read More

BizBox lays out what health-care reform would mean for small businesses--namely, hundreds of billions of saved dollars. Read More