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By Rieva Lesonsky The Small Business Administration (SBA), whose fiscal year ended September 30, reports some surprising news: Despite a tough economy, the number of SBA loans rose by some 30 percent in 2010.

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It has been a wonderful year in which our community has grown substantially and our path is getting stronger and closer to what we want to be, a Business Blogging Community of choice... Read More

Now that I've had time to regroup (a little bit anyway) after a long day of travel, I'd like to reflect a bit on the BlogWorld & New Media Expo that wrapped up over the weekend. Read More

Crowdsourcing outsources tasks traditionally performed by your staff or a contractor to a community or crowd of people through an open call. Small businesses are finding they can use crowdsourcing to cut the costs of projects significantly, gain greater insight into public opinion about their produ Read More

How Violight adapted its toothbrush sanitizer into a cleaning product for cell phones. For six years, Violight, a $9 million company based in Yonkers, New York, has made products that zap germs off of toothbrushes with ultraviolet light. Read More

Email says a lot about you as a person and as a professional. Because email is written communication, it can reveal your level of intelligence by your ability to articulate your thoughts, your education by your ability to construct a grammatically correct sentence, and your diligence by how many ty Read More

The common tools to hear back from your readers or site users are: a poll, a quiz and a survey. This post briefly looks at the three tools and the benefits of using them. Read More

Social media marketing is really effective instrument for marketing your products. There's no extra option marketing scheme for social media marketing. Therefore social media marketing is essential for whatsoever online business. Social media marketing requires a different approach when compared to ... Read More

If you would not have your salespeople sell price, if it isn’t a competitive strategy that you have chosen, then you must not reward selling on price. Read More

There are tons of small business blogs and news websites out there, but you don’t have tons of free time on your hands. You want an information source that is current, regularly updated, and not filled with spam. Here are 20 small business websites that I regularly visit. Read More