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Jeremy Quittner at Business Week has some great ideas for entrepreneurs from entrepreneurs on creative ways to bootstrap during tight times like these. Nothing revolutionary here, but lots of good suggestions. Here is one sample related to equipment: Read More

Partnership agreements (also known as Buy-Sell Agreements) are like prenuptial agreements for people that are in business together. The formation of any business with multiple owners should include a buy-sell agreement. Why? Because reality dictates that it is not a matter of IF your partnership will end, but rather WHEN your partnership will en Read More

Most advice to entrepreneurs focuses on what they should do: build a great product, assemble a great team, provide great service. All are “duhisms.” Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs don't realize that there are things they should specifically avoid doing too. These are also duhisms, but somehow no one ever talks about them. Here is my list of the Read More

While the state of the economy should never be a deterrent in starting a small business -- people and businesses still need to consume goods and services -- a downturn does have an effect on your ability to find and obtain capital for their ventures, especially if your personal credit is a bit lacking. But all is not lost. Read More

Of course, every type of financing has its price -- in this case, an interest rate of 30% is about average, Barzel said. (For comparison purposes, one-fifth of the small-business owners who participated in the NSBA survey reported paying an interest rate in excess of 20% on their primary credit cards.) And not every small business that walks throug Read More

With the blogosphere churning out nearly 1 million posts every 24 hours, an unstoppable river of content flows over the web daily. It's daunting, especially if you're new to online publishing. The good news is it's still very possible to succeed, even if you're just starting out today. Developing affinity with a group of readers who will actuall Read More

Companies, marketers and advertising agencies are facing a dramatic shift in marketing realitiy - and are increasingly failing to connect with consumers. Read More

The Power of Social Media Marketing You don't make money on the phone (or in person) coaching. Yeah - that's collecting money. You don't actually make money unless you're marketing your coaching business. This was actually my second biggest mistake in building my coaching business - not realizing: Read More

Here are SCORE's 7 steps for small business success. My favorite suggestions are to identify a niche and to avoid competing on price. Read More

Australian business coach Greg Chapman discusses the steps of small business development. Most interesting is his analysis of a mature business and the suggestion that businesses that are coasting at this point without growth and evolution may actually be in the first stages of decline. Read More