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The National Federation of Independent Business Index of Small Business Optimism rose 2.9 points to 91.1 in August, but continued one of the longest strings of recession-level readings in the history of the survey — dating back to 1973. Two-thirds of the gain was due to a new confidence among small business owners who expect business conditions to Read More

Jodi Smith wasn't always so outgoing. In fact, she was so shy in high school that she knew "maybe three people out of a class of more than 1,000" when she graduated. Heading to college, however, Smith made the conscious decision to reinvent herself, "just to see what would happen." Well, her experiment seems to have worked. After a decade Read More

Interesting take on how to get almost instant notoriety and PR for your company on a shoe string. Read More

Headlining NFIB's 2008 Small Business Summit is presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain. Other speakers include Meg Whitman, former President and CEO of eBay, CNN political commentator Tony Snow, Roger T. Staubach, and political bloggers Charlie Cook and Stuart Rothenberg. Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have also been invited to speak. Read More

Here's one that's been around for awhile. Grab Sam Decker's great marketing idea resource at Scribd. Read More

The sole purpose of your headline is to entice the person reading it to read the REST of your article. If it doesn't accomplish that, your article might as well not exist. Read More

The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) is sponsoring a contest. The Grand Prize Winner receives a $5,000 cash prize and an all expense paid trip to Washington D.C. to attend the June 8-11, 2008 National Small Business Summit. Read More