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This week is Global Entrepreneurship Week, the second annual celebration of entrepreneurship worldwide sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and U.K.-based Make Your Mark. For more information on the events planned, which will reportedly involve three million people in 5,000 events worldwide visit the article and links at Entrepreneur. Read More

Do you think Twitter is a purely social networking media — with little use for small businesses? If so, you'd better think again. Businesses (both small and big businesses) have found ways to use the micro blogging service to gain visibility and boost sales. In fact, there are so many business users that Twitter has added a new link on its bottom Read More

I'm a big fan of the newish Twitter List function. I wrote about it last week — 5 Reasons to Use the New Twitter Lists Feature Now that I've you pumped up about using lists, I want to talk about a few tools that I think can make the feature even more useful. Read More

Bob Gilbreath, chief marketing strategist at Bridge Worldwide, says to create niche marketing that improves peoples lives. The more meaningful you make your marketing, he says, the more people are willing to pay for your products or services. Here are the things meaningful marketers know. Read More

This report by CNN Money.com Small Business examines the role played by small business as the "backbone" of the economic recovery. Though over half of all workers in the U.S. are employed by small businesses loans to this sector by banks in recent months since the economic downturn has fallen noticeably...despite economic assistance poured into Read More

Over time, small business websites start to show their age. To stay on top of your game, you need to take an active role in reviewing your site's graphics, content and technology on a regular basis. So, is it time for a website redesign? The following seven clues are strong indicators your small business website is in need of a serious website red Read More

Let's take a look at the basic financial statements that every business owner should prepare and review on a regular basis: the profit-and-loss statement, the balance sheet and the cash flow statement. I asked Libby Ladu, founder of Right Brain Ventures and a financial advisor to entrepreneurs, to describe how each of these statements can help yo Read More

Finding the right small business checking account, if you don't have one yet or are in the market for one, can be a little like asking someone to go steady. After all, while you and your checking account can break up later, it isn't easy -- all those automatic deposits and withdrawals to cancel, and the shifting of funds from one account to anot Read More

In a fit of collaboration goodness I would like to gift one set of seven awesome books to the person that most creatively answers the following: I get the biggest return for my business using social media when I [fill in the blank] I'm the only judge and I'm going to pick the answer I like the best. But, here's what you'll get if you win. Read More

Have you seen Verizon's new television commercial comparing its nationwide 3G coverage with that of AT&T? Below is a video of the animated commercial, just in time for the holiday shopping season. Some think Verizon is out of line in directly mentioning AT&T's coverage in its advertisements. Read More