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How can you take your small business global? In my interview with international marketer Cindy King we discuss the tools, approaches and core concepts that can make your cross-cultural marketing strategy a success. Cindy King is a Cross-Cultural Marketer & International Sales Strategist based in France. She uses her dual background in sales & mar Read More

If you don't live in one of these top cities for entrepreneurs MOVE! Just kidding. Actually, with Internet technology it seems likely just about any place could be a good place for starting your small business venture. Still, this slide show with commentary from Inc.com is an interesting overview of cities that rate highest for successful startup Read More

Get the latest facets of LPO and its impact. The new LBO deals emerging now in the market rely on fundamentals — stable base businesses, reasonable prices, and conservative capital structures. This is the long term ticket to success and a return to normalcy from a speculative boom. Read More

Newsweek reported that 70% of all credit lines extended in 2009 have interest rates that float based on the credit default swap prices (CDS) for the referenced borrower. ... This means that once again, many SMBs would be out of the loop on the latest and greatest lending product. Read More

Partner marketing is really another way of saying, proactively teaming up or partnering with other small businesses to increase sales.Whilst it is not a new concept, it is generally conducted by many small businesses by accident. They use it as short term promotional offer versus it being proactively planned and implemented. Read More

With Facebook launching its redesigned pages for businesses early this year, many have flocked into the social media site, hoping to leverage this free function to increase their online presence. And expectedly, not all pages turned out to be successful. In fact, most turned out to be disastrous. Read More

This post won't be popular with the franchise brokerage community..... Read More

Each business has 7 ages: enthusiasm, naivety, attention, maturity, expansion, leadership and exhaustion. Read More

What drives an investor to buy a stock? Is it the fundamentals? The technicals? A combination of the two? Well I'm not quite certain anymore. You can basically throw all of the textbook answers out the window when it comes to today's equity markets. Why do I say that? Because I believe that the only thing that is driving this market is the no Read More

Welcome to my Guy Kawasaki advice mash-up - my take on Guy's advice for entrepreneurs and CEOs that he offered during a couple of recent talks. These are ideas that can help you get your company's 'ducks all lined up' and your organization 'firing on all cylinders'. Read More