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An interesting way to get yourself to get all of your ideas out before you go through the editing and revising process. Read More

The co-founder of you tube has put together a "founder friendly" venture investment group called Youniversity. Aiming for companies looking for backing without having to sign off to unfavorable terms. Read More

With its ability to lower the cost of voice applications and spur additional deployments, open source VoIP could be the solution smaller businesses have been looking for. Read More

While every business has a bank, few have a banker. That's because bankers are too often seen as obstacles standing between an entrepreneur and the bank's vault. However, small businesses are not doing business with a building — the bank — they are working with people — the bankers. So forging a relationship is crucial. Read More

Text analytics -- a general term for the mining and interpretation of written words -- has been used for more than two decades, most notably by the defense industry. However, today it is marketers who are increasingly turning to text analytics to mine information from the mountains of customer data they've accrued from customer-service surveys, e Read More

Article discusses new ways to get USPS discounts along with how to negotiate with shipping companies. Read More

Thomas M. Sullivan, head of the Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy, aims to make sure U.S. regulations treat entrepreneurs fairly. As the fifth chief counsel to head the office created in 1976 as an independent voice for small business within the federal government, Sullivan would like to see the day that all 90-plus federal agenc Read More

Short version: a chief marketing technologist (CMT) is the person responsible for leading an organization's marketing technology. A CMT is to the CMO what, in IT-centric firms, the CTO has been to the CIO. Read More

We all know the customer is the most important person in our business, but sometimes we forget that the second most important person in the business is any staff member that comes in contact with the customer in anyway. The staff member that deals with the customer face-to-face is the person who represents the business in the customers mind. If th Read More

An October survey found only 11 percent of small-business owners say they want to retire at all. Nine in 10 say they are happy with what they do -- with 58 percent saying they are very or extremely satisfied with their work. "In other words, small-business owners overwhelmingly like what they do," Gallup said. Read More