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Kickstarter.com is an innovative way to find funding for small business. The site, created to aid artists, has been pegged by emerging, expanding, and struggling small businesses as a creative way to communicate project ideas to potential investors. The concept is easy. Small businesses create an online profile explaining their project and setti Read More

It's important to make sure that your listing in Google maps is accurate, because even if you have not input the information yourself, the Google search engine can and often does pull information from third party sources. Read More

Do you have one? Or is your customer information hidden in lots of paper files? If you don't have a customer database, then you are missing out on an effective marketing tool that will help grow your business. Read More

Here are five tips for small business hit by natural disaster that may help you survive the worst that Mother Nature can visit upon your venture and employees. Guest Blogger Dawn Rivers Baker provides these suggestions in a recent post at Small Business CEO about how to deal with the ultimate unpredictability in business. Hopefully, you will never Read More

Twitter seems to be the buzz word of 2009 — who's twittering, tweeting, twamming, a twit— And many more words that have made their way into the Twittonary. But is it worth setting up a Twitter account and spending a countless amount of time sendings 140-character messages out into cyberspace? Read More

Confused about social media? You are not alone. Many business owners feel overwhelmed by the idea of establishing a presence in the social media world. But, it`s not really that complicated. At a recent Vistage webinar for its CEO members, social media experts said your company is missing out on a prime opportunity to engage customers in social con Read More

Two of the dominant trends of the Internet over the past decade, social media and e-commerce, have overlapped very little and without much success. Retailers have tried to cultivate communities of shoppers with similar interests on their sites, without much uptake. Plenty of brands set up Twitter and Facebook pages, only to find that marketing to c Read More

This great post by Seth Godin on marketing may seem like it's against marketing but it's really not. In fact, it's kind of a return to a long held theory of Seth's that ultimately you should market people what they really want not what you need to sell. Now, the question becomes how in the world can you figure that out and this Seth doesn't e Read More

A unique small business would help welcome newcomers and introduce them to their new community...and make a profit from local businesses at the same time. This great guest post from Bizymoms on Dane Carlson's Business Opportunities Weblog is one you might not think of immediately. Sure, we've all seen those folks show up with gift baskets on TV Read More

One of the delights for many who dine at Chinese restaurants is the fortune contained inside the little cookie desert. Finding little hidden gems inside a surprise package takes us back to the fun we had at birthday parties and opening presents during a holiday. I think businesses can tap the fortune cookie tactic in their own little way to Read More