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Small business startup training is available from SCORE. SCORE “Counselors to America's Small Business” and The Company Corporation have released a new version of How to Really Start Your Own Business. This popular free workbook is available at SCORE's 370 offices nationwide. Read More

Sales are picking up, but layoffs and poor credit conditions persist, according to a recent survey of small business owners. Read More

Rich Christiansen and Ron E. Porter, authors of "Bootstrap Business", recently spoke to the North Front Entrepreneur Alliance about how to start a successful business with effective networking skills, good business intelligence and only a small amount of cash. Read More

Ideas to promote your small business particularly a new business including using social media like Facebook, blogs, YouTube etc. and working to get press coverage of your venture. Read More

A reader asks: Can you suggest some business ideas for women? Yes, in fact I'd argue that most, if not all, of the business ideas I've written about on this blog could be a "business idea for a woman". I don't believe that there are many business ideas that are purely business ideas for women (or for that matter purely business ideas for men). Read More

A common marketing exercise tells us to list all the adjectives we want customers to associate with our company or product. The result often looks like this (real slide, source withheld to protect the guilty. Read More

6 easy ways, ways we can choose, ways that cost nothing but a choice of ours, to bring much-needed positivity to work. Read More

How can we make sure we have the right information technology to avoid, in the future, the delayed reaction by firms to problems with their balance sheets that was partly responsible for the current financial crisis? That's the question... Read More

The time is now. Expose yourself. Take the dive into the world of online communication. Start a corporate blog. Start a twitter campaign for a product. Get your customer service department trained in the ways of social media. Can you feel the winds of change blowing through your window? Or did you decide to yank it close—? Only to experience it Read More

There's no denying that the world and certainly the world of marketing has changed. If you're trying to wrap your head around what that might mean for you, here are seven very concrete ways to start viewing the evolution of your marketing strategies and practices. Read More