BizSugar.com › User › stillwagon428 › Voted

Starting a family business presents many challenges, experts say, but sisters Brenda and Mary Maher bucked the odds with their successful baking business Cakegirls. Read More

Yahoo Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web. Frankly, it has been around for a couple of years now and while it's advanced a bit, I don't think it has ever really caught on in a big way. The interface is a little funky and takes some getting use to, but once you do, it's a pretty cool Read More

If you're one of the many knowledge workers these days who works in an office or cubicle, you have likely encountered one of the following people around lunch time at your job. If you are like me, you are probably at least mildly annoyed by the actions of these people around the lunch hours. I have taken a moment to briefly classify and rant abo Read More

As a smart business person, you probably know that there are no such things as magic words, particularly in a culture that has been saturated with advertising. But there's something else you should know: Not only do magic advertising words not exist, several of them actually work against you. Read More

Partnerships can turn out to be a blessing or a curse. For every thriving partnership featured in Entrepreneur, there are thousands that end up stagnant, dissolving, dysfunctional or worse--in court. More often than not, performing basic due diligence can keep you from ending up in bad partnerships. So, have you done your homework? Read More

With all of the things that must be juggled to keep a business profitable you deserve some free advice that will help out your online marketing campaign. We've put together a few simple tips to help out any small business with search marketing. Read More

Most advice to entrepreneurs focuses on what they should do: build a great product, assemble a great team, provide great service. All are “duhisms.” Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs don't realize that there are things they should specifically avoid doing too. These are also duhisms, but somehow no one ever talks about them. Here is my list of the Read More

While the state of the economy should never be a deterrent in starting a small business -- people and businesses still need to consume goods and services -- a downturn does have an effect on your ability to find and obtain capital for their ventures, especially if your personal credit is a bit lacking. But all is not lost. Read More

Of course, every type of financing has its price -- in this case, an interest rate of 30% is about average, Barzel said. (For comparison purposes, one-fifth of the small-business owners who participated in the NSBA survey reported paying an interest rate in excess of 20% on their primary credit cards.) And not every small business that walks throug Read More

With the blogosphere churning out nearly 1 million posts every 24 hours, an unstoppable river of content flows over the web daily. It's daunting, especially if you're new to online publishing. The good news is it's still very possible to succeed, even if you're just starting out today. Developing affinity with a group of readers who will actuall Read More