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Millions of businesses and other public facilities would be affected by proposed regulatory changes under the Americans With Disabilities Act, the milestone 1990 civil rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability. The proposed regulations address a wide range of facilities, including access to courthouses, drinking fount Read More

If you regularly sell items on online auction sites, you may find yourself on the Internal Revenue Service's radar. Recent legislation aims to help the IRS collect more taxes from online enterprises, many of which either don't know about their tax obligations or are ignoring them, according to the agency. The provision, part of the housing re Read More

As of June 2008, if your business processes credit card payments, you are required to comply with new security standards to prevent fraud, hacking, and various other security vulnerabilities and threats, or risk losing this ability and being audited or fined. Any company or government agency that processes, stores, or transmits payment card da Read More

Cybercriminals aren't so much worried about the size of their targets as they are the security they are forced to navigate. To that end they are increasingly targeting SMBs due to a lack of security measures implemented by that sector. Read More

Dave Hermansen did not own a bird or a cage when he bought bird-cage.com, an online store, for $1,800 three years ago. He simply saw a Web site that was “very, very poorly done,” and begged the owners to sell it to him. He then redesigned the site, added advertising and drove up traffic. Last December, he sold it for $173,000. Mr. Hermansen is Read More

Social media can be one of the great levelers for small business competing in today's global markets. Your boss may not know that. Here's 11 ways to help your boss correct that oversight and make you look good doing it. Read More

Andy Sernovitz shares some good ideas for viral marketing. Read More

Should taxes on small business be abolished? Mark Cuban, owner of Dallas Mavericks and HDNet, suggests they should. What do you think? Read More

Unique, niche, targeted markets are the domain of small business. And it's all built around your reputation. Earn it, spread it, your business grows. Don't and it won't. Here's a post that shows small businesses some inexpensive online tools to help with the spread of your deserved rep. Read More

The Chicago Tribune is doing a fantastic job of integrating social media and traditional journalism. Most newspapers web sites are run by the marketing or new media department, but the Trib has done a great job of making it a core part of the editorial process. Learn how Dan Honigman and Bill Adee make it happen in this video interview, incl Read More