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The best franchise information, including top franchise business opportunities, helpful business tips, and powerful opinion pieces on franchising. Joel Libava has a list of blogs that he reads and is a good resource for all of us. I am happy that my blog is included. Read More

There are a plethora of legitimate questions that keep entrepreneurs up at night, one of the biggest and most fundamental, being, “How do I raise money?”

There will always be a disproportionate number of companies looking for capital relative to that which exists. In order to maximize your chanc Read More

By Mitch Ditkoff ▪ There are three things that continue to astound me about most organizations: The cro-magnon way performance reviews are done; the pitiful way brainstorm sessions are run and; the voo doo way decisions are made. What follows is an elaboration of the third -- 12 all-too-common phen Read More

I've been compiling a list of small business websites, and small business blogs for a few years. This list includes the usual suspects, like Brian Clark, Chris Brogan, Rieva Lesonsky, and Anita Campbell. (Who owns bizSugar.com) Read More

Small business owners must stop pointing fingers to others and start seeking solutions. Here are 10 tips - to help your small business to thrive in 2011. Read More

25 Ways to Prospect for New Business By, Deborah Shane “Inspire rather than push the sale by being serve centric rather than sales centric”- Did you know Read More

Maybe it’s my age, but I’m finally able to confront the fact that there are a few business lessons that are:

* Unquestionably true
* Have been taught to me by mentors, customers and various & sundry successful, experienced executives
* Have been beaten into me by the relentless for Read More

In these tough economic times, it may seem like a false hope to create an environment where your customers not only freely pay you for your product or service, but do so eagerly and gratefully. Ah Contre’ dear business owning friends….it perhaps is easiest in a tough economy to produce this type of Read More

Your business will develop a “brand” whether you plan to or not. Your company name will bring thoughts, feelings and impressions into your customers’ minds – consciously or subconsciously. Do you have a brand strategy, so that YOU control what clients think of your brand? Read More

I asked my friend Honest Guy to keep track of all the steps he had to go through to make his Last Honest Guy Relationship Podcast a reality. He gave me these 10 steps. Enjoy. Read More