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A financial advisor uses an old school marketing technique. Financial advisors can benefit from leveraging social media to build relationships and leverage their personal brand. Read More

In my work life, I come in contact with a lot of start up micro businesses and have discovered some of the mistakes they have made. Fortunately, we have the opportunity to learn from them, and hopefully avoid the same mistakes ourselves. Read More

Making the decision to say no to clients is not made lightly. Do you know how to recognise when you should say no? No to an existing client, no to future income, no to potential new clients? Read More

The new healthcare law recently passed will affect even many small businesses in very significant ways. The law will be phased in gradually over the next several years but knowing the specific implementation can be extremely important in operating your business. This breakdown of the law by the National Federation of Independent Business gives details and a time line for implementation plus a lin Read More

As a business owner, we might over look a positive partnership. This article gives 10 reasons why you should outsource to a virtual assistant. Read More

How do you balance your desire to stretch—knowing that when you do it’s not only good for you, but good for traffic and business—with not wanting to walk around with a knot in your stomach all day. Read More

Today it’s all about the subject line. You may have the most compelling, well-written small business press release. But if the subject line doesn’t capture their attention immediately and make them open the release, all that work is sitting on the curb. You can refer to the PR Toolkit for small business to find examples of other bad press releases. Read More

Kate Tammemagi, a customer service trainer at Focus Training, shares these great customer service tips to improve your phone skills. Read More

Outsourcing, when correctly considered and controlled, can be a real bonus for your business. It must be done for the right reasons to ensure it's success and with the necessary foresight in case things go wrong. Read More

The number of social networking sites a business can use to promote itself and interact with existing and potential clients is very high at the moment. Just to mention few of the most popular at the moment: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, Bebo etc. Read More