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Think your boss doesn't know what you're up to and where you are? Guess Again!

And as an employer, here are 5 tools to make sure your employees are where they are and doing what they say they are Read More

Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda spent 29 years of his life thinking WWII was still raging...and he fought on! Perhaps never in modern history has an episode contained so much misinformation, miscommunication and ignorance of "The Writing on the Wall!"

Business lessons from this historical episode abound.. Read More

Some four years ago, I started Bingo Card Creator, a business which sells software to teachers. At the time, my big goal for the future was eventually making perhaps $200 a month, so that I could buy more video games without feeling guilty about it. The business has been successful beyond my wildest expectations and has made it possible to quit my day job at the end of this month. The amount of time I’ve spent on it has fluctuated: the peak was the week I launched (50 hours in 8 days), a very busy week in the last few years spiked up to as many as 20 hours, and the average over the period is (to my best estimate) about 5 hours Read More

When I was in college I ran a typing service. This was back when most people wrote rough drafts in longhand and typed the final drafts onto a computer...whic Read More

I promised Susan Oakes a couple of days ago to post this article from a blogger I always enjoy reading, Sonia Simone of Copyblogger, in response to Susan's post "Your Customers Have The Need But Do They Have The Desire?" Check it out on her blog, M4B Marketing, or here at BizSugar posted about four days ago. In the post, in turn a response to another post from Stoney deGeyter of Search Engine Guide, Susan argues that "You need to work out the difference between those customers having a need and those that actually have a desire to take action." Susan is definitely right as far as she goes, but Sonia takes it one step further. Those customers with a "desire to take action" may just be the tip of the iceberg!
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How important is sharing small business news with your network of connections and what are the best ways to go about it? (This applies to BizSugar members, of course, but also to anyone else who uses social media.) Sharing small business news or other information of value is a form of marketing whether you realize it or not. See also the video from Greg Fry of Bloggertone, whose posts appear regularly here on BizSugar.com in this latest edition from our BizSugar blog. Read More

Some inspirational lessons on how the retail business is tough and every moment and every quarter counts. Read More

Simple answer: No. Your web designer didn't SEO your website. If you are asking this very reasonable question, your search engine rankings probably aren't where you expected. Mostly you'll be in one of these situations Read More

So I came to visit BizSugar's Yoni today for a meeting about our work on JobShuk. He told me that each time I visit, I must post on BizSugar. So here goes!

They've been on the front lines. Many have been in combat. They are dedicated and determined, courageous and disciplined. Are they better franschisees? Read More

They've told you there is NO WAY you can succeed!

In 1990, they told James "Buster" Douglas, a 42-1 underdog and challenger the same thing as he entered the ring with the monstrous, mythical and undefeated heavyweight champ, Mike Tyson.. Read More