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A new place to network for small and medium businesses - find funding, get advice, change providers, enter competitions and find out about the latest news and events in the SME space. Read More

You don't need a huge budget to discover the power of social media for your small business. Here's a plan that shows you how you can get started with a few hours per week of your time, a one-time investment of $300 and $15.00 month. Then judge the results for yourself. Read More

Success comes in clusters of talent, resources, ideas. Here's a brief profile of one small town and how they clustered 3 of the worlds largest manufacturers, competing in the same industry, to create thousands of local jobs. Can your community do the same? Is your company standing in the way? Read More

It's a list of 8 tips I've found as CEO of a small business that helped our company, and I, survive and even thrive in tough times. Read More

This is an excellent resource about, for, to help you learn, selling to small business. Lots of great content, from many great experts. Read More

As 2008 has now closed and the sales year for 2009 has begun, it is good to measure where you stand with your customers. Hopefully, you sent out a number of hand written Christmas cards to your customers during our recent holiday season. More importantly, I would ask - "how many of your customers sent you a Christmas card?" Read More

Much of the writing on angel investing suggests that angels fill the gap between the low amounts invested by friends-and-family, and the large amounts invested by venture capitalists. But is that true? The story goes something like this: that business angels fill the financing gap between the $100,000 maximum seed stage investment that friends Read More

Whether you're marking online or offline, here are 8 wonderful tips to ensure your business is off to a great start in 2009! Read More

Slate's BizBox takes issue with the NFIB's position on the auto bailout, instead saying that small business owners should support it, but should use it as a jumping-off point to score concessions for themselves. Read More

Shannon Paul wrote a really clever post the other day about Cultural Immersion for the Social Media tourist. She's hitting on something that's been nagging at me. We keep saying that listening is the first step to participating in social media. But companies who are seeking to better understand social media (and it's application for their busines Read More