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Some small businesses can be founded with one market in mind only to find a totally different market where their products and services are much better accepted. One example is Matt Paxton, whose four-year-old company Clutter Cleaner started with the idea of relocating seniors only to discover a much better market in aiding "extreme clutterers," those who collect so many things it begin interfering with their lives. Read More

The credit unions could provide the funding for small businesses and entrepreneurship now lacking from larger banks if Congress could be persuaded to raise their lending limits. What's your opinion? Would credit unions be a good source of loans for small businesses if banks cannot meet the need and should Congress act on this? Leave your comments below Read More

In this review of the book "Social Media 101" by Chris Brogan, Pierre DeBois gives an overview of the tactics and tools you should have at your command after reading. From blogs, to video and audio to LinkedIn, this review gives you a peek into subjects Brogan's book covers. Social media has become a major field for businesses and marketers of all kind. This review suggests another possible resource teaching small business owners to harness the power of social media for their needs Read More

If you are into working at home and establishing a home business for yourself, you should highly consider webpreneurship. Here's why and how to help you succeed Read More

What does a business similar to yours sell for? How long does it take to sell a business like yours, and how many businesses like yours are being sold Read More

Everyone seems to agree on the need for more entrepreneurship and small business activity to rebuild the economy after the harsh recession. Here's a cool report from Inc magazine writers Adam Bluestein and Amy Barrett with some concrete suggestions, specifically 16 steps, to get us to an environment more friendly to the kinds of entrepreneurship experts say we need to rebuild our economy. Can we make them a reality? Read More

The old important question is which of the factor is more important for having the faithful and real audience in social media? The content or the distribution. They both don’t catch the whole picture as this is the user experience that is more important than these two. Now the question might be what the user experience is? The simple answer is when you navigate from one website to the other or video to other video you are doing it by the experience and it has been missing mostly from the digital media.Some people believe that content is the king! Yes but it is not the hole story, considering the case of a social media, it may offer instant access to great content but that content has become commoditized. Generally it is very difficult to keep this kind of content always novel. Therefore the content alone can’t be the final answer Read More

Cisco’s 2010 Midyear Security Report found that workers in the enterprise are accessing their favorite social networking sites on company-issued equipment even when corporate policies prohibit them from doing so. Read More

A spin-off is merely a startup spawned by a mature parent (company), and conventional logic would dictate that it has a survival advantage over the lowly startup. Yet spin-offs seem to most often fail to launch in the real world. I was part of one myself a few years ago, and felt the pain, so the phenomenon has intrigued me ever since Read More

An organization may spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to create the ‘perfect’ ad for them; where it encompasses the values and beliefs of the company through a single television spot. However, these are arguably having smaller impacts on sales. On the other hand, you have a source of basically free advertising with built-in audiences and tremendous potential for ancillary PR through user-generated advertisings. Read More