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MoreBusiness.com releases a new center featuring tips and tricks on preparing small business taxes. Visitors can learn about small business tax deductions, view a 12-point tax to-do checklist and access useful forms, links and tax tools. Read More

Valerie Gunderson, a Minnesota communications consultant, has been able to balance a successful at-home career with raising her two sons. Time management is a key for "microbusiness moms" like Gunderson and others who have been able to achieve the balance they couldn't get while working a "50-plus-hour-a-week" job in a conventional workplace. Read More

Using product placement for advertising allows for a lot of creativity. Here are my ten favorite product placements. Read More

President Bush this week signed new legislation expanding small-business opportunities for veterans and helping reservists run their businesses after they've been deployed.

The Military Reservist and Veteran Small Business Reauthorization and Opportunity Act, introduced by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), will Read More

This is a great list of open source software alternatives. The author lists 50 of the most commonly used proprietary software solutions and offers a free alternative. Read More

All CMOs engage in a time-driven bargain: exchanging their time -- the time they've invested in market research, marketing plans, strategy development and advertising -- in return for a few minutes, hours or days of their consumers' time. But how can you know whether consumers are willing to trade their time for yours? To take the time to listen Read More

Blasting ads indiscriminately at audiences works less and less as we move forward in time. This is true for online and offline marketing. Savvy marketers now realize organic propagation of one's message is much more effective from a monetary and communications POV.

Publishing Web Digest for Marketers since April 1995 has shown Larry Chase what Read More

Many entrepreneurs don't have the luxury of having a separate accounting department, instead doing their own number crunching. It's not always easy, but you can make it less difficult by making use of the huge number of free financial tools for businesses that are available on the Internet. Here are 100 calculators that can help you get and keep y Read More

This is a wonderful review of bizSugar by Terra Andersen at BetterForBusiness.com. If you haven't had the chance yet, check out her site. She's got some great articles and often finds unique angles on business that aren't covered by other writers. Quote from review: "this concept was MUCH NEEDED in the business world. I am beyond happy that Read More

Artisans, historically defined as skilled craftsmen who fashioned goods by hand, will re-emerge as an influential force in the coming decade. These next-gen artisans will craft their goods and shape the economy — through upswings and downturns — with an effect reaching far beyond their neighborhoods, or even their nations. That's one of the c Read More