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As a small business owner you may not always have the money to invest in the tools you really need. That's ok. You might actually be surprised to learn how just how many great low cost and even free tools there are to help you improve your online marketing. In this workshop, Matt McGee of Small Business Search Marketing walks attendees throug Read More

Creativity does not have to cost much — it can take the place of big expenditures. In fact, creativity can be a powerful asset if you learn to use it and not hold back. Case in point: recently I attended the Small Business Marketing Unleashed Conference. As is typical at such conferences, each attendee received a bag with promotional materials Read More

Throughout the day, dozens of media outlets have covered the unfortunate passing of Hollywood legend, Paul Newman, who died Friday of Cancer at age 83. While Newman is widely known for his accomplishments in film, his life as an entrepreneur and philanthropist is remarkable in its own right. In 1982, Newman and his friend, A.E. Hotchner, start Read More

One blogger, Rosalind Resnick on Entrepreneur.com, lays out an alternative bailout proposal. Instead of spending $700 billion on large conglomerates like AIG, the Fed should offer businesses and consumers loans at the 2% federal funds rate so homeowners could refinance at much lower rates and businesses could have immediate access to the cheap cap Read More

One of the fast-growing trends in small business these days is teleworking - employees working from home or away from the company's main office. Surging gas prices driving up the already high cost of commuting and growing environmental concerns are just the most recent and headline-grabbing inducements that make telework increasingly attractive to Read More

How are the credit markets affecting small businesses in the United States. To try to get some statistical data to answer their questions, the author decided to take a look at peer-to-peer lending. Peer-to-peer lending gets at part of the effect of the credit markets on small businesses because some entrepreneurs borrow money from other individual Read More

A lot has been made of the recent post at Google's Webmaster Central Blog regarding duplicate content. The post, entitled Demystifying the “Duplicate Content Penalty”, basically calls into question the idea that a site can be “penalized” for having significantly similar content to another site and places the blame on webmasters and SEOs for perpe Read More

Are you happy with your credit card processor? Are you getting the best deal? Many small businesses across the U.S. aren't which has led to the launch of a comparison-shopping website for B2B financial services. Read More

In a standard custom logo assignment, the average graphic designer develops six concepts for evaluation by the business owner client. Only one of those will be used, leaving five creative logos to be stored away—and probably never seen again. Enter IncSpring, a beta site that aims to help designers with ideas and business owners seeking same find Read More

Here's a question for you: If you had to pick one move that you've made in your business (past or present business) that had the biggest impact on profitability, what would it be? Just as for other articles here in the Small Business Success Center, I once again polled several entrepreneurs. This is how they answered the question: Read More