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Good news. Signs are showing that entrepreneurs are growing again....And that's the first sign that job growth is just around the corner. Maybe. Read More

How understanding a leader can help one survive difficult circumstances and actually thive as competition increases. Comparison of modern leadership theory with Sun Tzu's model from 2500 years ago. Was it a precursor to situational leadership or transformational? Read More

Listen to your employees. Why? Um...they're the ones that create, deliver and sustain your brand. They just may have some ideas. They have the data. Read More

In a guest column on Slate's BizBox, Dev Patnaik and Peter Mortensen, authors of Wired to Care, explain why a business's empathy with its customers is crucial to its success--and how small businesses can leverage their advantage here. Read More

The expanding reach of the Internet and growth of online collaboration tools have all changed small business outsourcing dramatically in the past 3-4 years. Let us take a look at 10 key trends for using independent contractors for projects and even ongoing staffing needs, and how they shape up in 2009: Read More

Training is often sold as a panacea promising long-term, significant increases in revenue generation. The logical thinking attached to this approach, which makes it an easy sell, is that sales skills can be taught and process can be instilled in individuals that will elevate them to rainmaker status. Unfortunately, the reality is much different. Read More

A very interesting article debating if the top sales people have the capacity to become top sales managers. Read More

Back when I was in school, which wasn't that long ago, in order to get this kind of information you had to spend hours in a classroom and thousands of dollars. Now you can get a big time business education, on your own time, for free. The following courses range in complexity and length, and should offer a good primer for those of you just Read More

If you have several versions of the same page or many pages with the same content, tell the search engines about it with the new canonical tag! The search engines really don't like to find the same content on several web pages. The main problem is for them to determine what is the “primary” page, the most important version, the one people shoul Read More

Why do shoppers leave the checkout before making a purchase? More importantly, what can you do about it? People abandon shopping carts for many reasons. Some simply change their minds or are just “window shopping.” You don't have much control over those instances. Some, however, find the checkout process confusing or aren't sure what you're g Read More