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Small-business owners take note: Changes in the tax code this year could add a few dollars to your coffers. But you could be in for colossal headaches if you've been sloppy in your record keeping. Read More

As soon as you add the first employee to your small business, you need to start focusing on cultivating a culture of teamwork within your organization. It's much easier to maintain a true team environment when you start out on the right foot. Many business owners make the mistake of thinking that as long as their employees manage to work together Read More

Intuit's TurboTax and H&R Block's TaxCut might be the most popular tax software for do-it-yourselfers, but they're certainly not the only ones that can do the job. Read More

The federal government's in-house advocate for small businesses released a list of 10 regulations that agencies should review, including simplifying the home office business deduction. This regulatory change would benefit millions of home-based businesses, many of which now don't take the deduction because of its complexity and the fear it would Read More

Lessons from Julie Clark founder of Baby Einstein and her lessons for success. Read More

There's a brand new Google AdWords quality score metric, page load time. The new factor has just been added to the AdWords full dump of their help section. Page load time is the time it takes a web page to load in seconds. If the load time in slow, Google says it will impact your quality score. Why? Slow loading landing pages are bad for your use Read More

Yelp! founder Jeremy Stoppelman, a former VP at PayPal, talks about how to rebound from difficult beginnings to go on to creating a site that millions of people visit every month. Read More

If a promotion is one of your goals for the next year, are you doing everything you can to make it happen? Read More

From the site: "One thing I've been pondering this weekend is figuring out why startups fail. But, in order to figure that out, I had to first decide what constitutes failure. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that a definitive failure is when the startup simply stops trying. And, the only reasons to stop trying are that you ru Read More

A simple but effective way to discover the needs of your employees and customers. Patrick Schaber of The Lonely Marketer shares how a friend is using two chairs and a sign to find out what their employees are thinking. I'm putting this under the category of management, but it fits just was well in marketing. Read More