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These 20 are about as strong as they get! Read More

The Business.Gov website just keeps getting better. Now, there's even a community area... Read More

Ah, the life of an entrepreneur. Come up with a business idea, write your business plan, line up a bunch of venture funding, and retire to a private island a few short years later when you go public. If you're heading off to business school right now, reading this on your iPhone, dreaming of buying your own island - sorry for the ice bath of reali Read More

As small business leaders, failure is a routine part of our day. Success depends on how we respond to these failures. As one proverb said "Fall down 7 times, get up 8." Read More

One of the most common reason stated by small businesses for not embracing social networking is that they can't measure or, worse yet, don't believe there is any solid return on the investment of participation. I get emails almost daily from frustrated marketers who want to dive more fully into social networking, but can't convince the boss that i Read More

Ever done a vanity search on Google? Whether you have or not, plenty of people have probably searched on your name to see what you are about. Wouldn't it be awful if some type of derogatory search result turned up? Read More

Hoping to get a little extra word of mouth to boost sales in the slow economy? Here are 16 thing you can do right now without having to hire an agency. Read More

Health insurance, healthcare, is both an important investment for small business and a huge expense that risks being forced onto small business, regardless of their ability to pay. Now's the time to educate yourself on this issue and its impact on your business. This post and the comments lay out many of the issues and much of the dialogue going Read More

Green is in. Big time. Serious growth in the franchise sector... Read More