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Getting yourself and your business unit into the mind-set of thinking about labor efficiency modeling is one of the keys to running a profitable business. The last time you looked at your current standards was when? Do you know what the correct production efficiency from each of your job codes is, even yours? What is your monitoring frequency? Read More

Securing your smaller business' data is critical to its survival. But how do you secure your network if it's been hacked? More important, how can you tell if you've been hacked? Jimmy Ray has all the answers Read More

The heart of every search engine optimization strategy are keywords and keyphrases. This article does a great job with the hows, wheres and whys of integrating keywords and keyphrases into your marketing mix. Read More

"As someone who has built a business from one person to 40 (and growing fast) I think most entrepreneurs misunderstand org charts and their value even to the smallest business of just one person. Yes, I'm serious: A one person organization that aims to grow needs an org chart!" Read More

Businesses are big winners in the economic stimulus package signed into law earlier this year. They may not be getting rebate checks, but they are getting showered with $45 billion in tax breaks designed to spur them on to purchase more equipment, cars and other assets sooner rather than later. Congress boosted the limit on first-year expensin Read More

How Project Better Place is using the principles of innovation to transform Israel by eliminating the need for oil by 2020. Read More

Starting June 1, 2008 merchants will be required to collect taxes or face repercussions. Yesterday, Overstock dealt with this issue by removing all New York based affiliates from their program. How will other large online only retailers react? Will other states follow suit? Read More

The turbulent economy is exposing yet another type of credit where bankers let their guard down: small-business loans. Missed payments and losses on small-business loans are surging at banks throughout the country that were so eager to pad their profits that they essentially threw typical underwriting methods out the window. Some lenders doled Read More

Some good tips on allaying prospects fears online in this great interview by expert on search engine marketing for small business, Matt McGee. Read More

One question that often comes up when evaluating the performance of an e-mail newsletter program is, “How do I keep my newsletters fresh and interesting?” Unique content is the best way to ensure your subscribers will want to read your newsletter, and one way to do this is to include links to online polls or surveys. Read More