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Ideas are a dime a dozen. The money is in the execution. Need proof? For Seth Godin's Alternative MBA program, nine attendees came up with 111 business ideas each. But ideas are only valuable when someone makes something happen. What follows are our 999 business ideas, free for the taking. Read More

A lot of us get stuck in inaction —procrastinating, doing a lot of unimportant tasks to avoid the important stuff, worrying about failing or about being perfect, having a hard time starting, getting distracted, and so on. It's time to start forming the Action Habit instead. And it's really not that hard if you focus on it for a little while. Read More

Al Betz, author of “Outfluence”, tells us that social influence can be utilized in order to bring about positive change - his method, Outfluence, after which his book is named, has to do with silent and nonverbal communication. Read More

RFM stands for Recency, Frequency and Monetary Value. It has been used by direct marketers for over 40 years as a segmentation tool to increase marketing ROI. The basic premise of RFM is that customers who have purchased more recently, more frequently and have spent more with your company are your best prospects for future direct marketing campa Read More

Small Business Trends is one of the market leading websites for small business owners and entrepreneurs. The site contains terrific articles by Anita Campbell, long time veteran publisher in this space. Recent post has encouraged biz owners to get to know one another and promote their business either via this post directly, or by submitting a pres Read More

WITH the economy in terrible shape, owners of small businesses could use a break. The tax code offers many to choose from, including some recent additions, and others may be on the way. Businesses received a batch of concessions late last year, when several measures that expired in 2007 were extended to cover 2008. These include a 20% credit on Read More

Nell Merlino, founder of Count Me In and host of the Make Mine a Million $ Business Race (M3 RACE), believes the creation and growth of women owned small businesses is a key part of how we are going to create hundreds of thousands of new jobs. The M3 RACE aims to help tens of thousands of women business owners grow their businesses to the mil Read More

Lessons in brand leveraging from Gwen Stefani Read More

When you try to sell to everyone your efforts are too broad. You aren't focused and you soon are faced with failures, because you are wasting time trying to sell something without understanding the value in other people's eyes - or even whether they are truly a good fit for your product or service. In short, you aren't qualifying companies/indivi Read More

BizBox's Jerry Kalish discusses a new Harvard Business School study that found that entrepreneurs with proven track records of success are more likely to succeed in a new endeavor. Read More