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Join our sometime BizSugar contributor Joel Libava, aka the Franchise King, as he reviews how to franchise your business. Necessarily, Joel also reviews how to decide whether you should franchise in the first place, how long it is likely to take to build up franchises of your business and how much the process is likely to cost. The following video Read More

Evaluating your small business goodwill when considering sale of your enterprise means going beyond the usual questions about equipment, inventory and fixtures. In this post, broker Bob Hughes reviews some of the things that go into calculating goodwill. They include things like the business's reputation, contact information, logos and trademarks Read More

About.com desktop video guide Gretchen Siegchrist suggests learning to promote your small business with vlogging. The term, for the uninitiated, refers to blogging in video format, a technique that has become considerably easier lately thanks to sites like YouTube. Imagined having your own television station mainly for the promotion of your small Read More

Startup Professionals Musings, by Martin Zwilling, shares why Founder's Syndrome is a health hazard and how it can be dangerous to your health. Read More

How to use culture-customized content within an international social media marketing strategy... and to take a new foreign market entry one step at a time. First to create relationships and connect with new markets and then to learn how to adapt sales and marketing for new international clients. Read More

Let's face it, as a business tool twitter gets a lot more interesting when you are following people who have conversations and point to content that you find relevant for your business or industry. But, on the surface, finding people related to your business can prove a little challenging using the built in twitter search tools. You can easily use Read More

Is a buy American clause inserted into the latest government stimulus package really hurting some US small business selling products outside the country? Yes, according to some small business owners including this head of a pipe fitting company selling heavily in Canadian markets who explains that many countries are beginning to retaliate against Read More

As passage of a health care reform bill seems more likely in the House and Senate, there is one small business interest group that is bucking the trend of criticism saying health care reform will lower costs for small business. When clicking on the link below please allow time for the full PDF form to download and scroll down to the beginning of t Read More

LANSING, MI (MPRN) - Governor Granholm's administration will resume lobbying this week for expanding the number of tax credits the state uses to attract employers. The Michigan Economic Growth Authority awards the credits based on the recommendation of the state's business development agency. But this month, the authority almost reached the lim Read More

The future of e-commerce is "social commerce" as online shoppers, particularly younger generations, are heavily influenced by social media and Web 2.0 technologies, according to Hill & Knowlton's Future of Commerce report. The report, which surveyed 600 US adults, found social media is "Word of Mouth 2.0" for younger generations, with youths Read More