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Blogging Tools That Help You Succeed - Doesn’t matter what you need to get done on your blog, there is more than one tool to help you do it. Read More

Depending on the nature of your business operations, your small business that frequently interacts with foreign suppliers, service providers, customers or business connections may be slapped with a huge expenses bill if you are not careful. Here are 10 Tips to Run an International Business Cheaply. Read More

A discussion of an important smarter, faster, cheaper marketing strategy: allowing people to create their own media, versus tightly controlling media creation and distribution. Read More

There are salespeople who have the technical skills and behaviors that are right for one strategy but spell disaster for a different strategy. Read More

Small business owners are often overshadowed by the big wigs in business. It's not the size that matters though because once upon a time, those big companies just started out the same way, small scale. Read More

Business relationships are a lot like personal relationships. It takes hard work, perseverance and patience to get results. Read More

In an ideal world, everyone should have a fair shot in asking for a loan. We can't deny the fact that loans can spell the difference between growth or deterioration especially in the small business enterprise. Read More

My friend Skip Anderson wrote an outstanding post, The Race To Sale Competence, A Case For Sales Training.  He raises a critical issue: As sales managers, Read More

Advertising is just one part of marketing and the people that I mentor know that they will have to invest a portion of their budget in it at some point. Thought through - it can work incredibly well for business, rushed - and it can have little or no effect and waste your budget... Read More

Over the last 7 years, I have been involved in more startups than most entrepreneurs will in their lifetime. That's not to say that I'm an "expert" in entrepreneurship (or an expert in anything for that matter), but I certainly have had a pretty diverse set of entrepreneurial experiences... Read More