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Join leading CEOs, entrepreneurs, business owners, angel investors, venture capitalists, and bankers at this one-day summit on July 11th in New York City.
The NYC 2008 | Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership Summit offers a unique immersion in entrepreneurial leadership, management, innovation, business development, and entrepreneurial financing
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We're no longer in the "Information Age," but rather the "Conceptual Age." And that means new interview skills are needed for both -- employer and employee.
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New research released today from the National Federation of Independent Business shows the top concerns among small business owners are business costs, particularly those that are difficult to control such as health insurance costs, energy costs and inflation.
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We recently spoke with Paul Saffo, the technology forecaster best known for his associations with the The Institute for the Future (which he left earlier this year) and The Long Now Foundation, whose mission is to replace society's "faster/cheaper mindset" with "slower/better thinking." Saffo also teaches a course on the future of engineering
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So you’ve heard the buzz going around the office? Heard the news, Wall Street, Congress, and your perhaps your neighbors? The economy has hit some tough times, it’s true. However, this doesn’t have to be the end, or a stifling factor in your own business. There are a million ways to effectively market for cheaper than you think. Often times, the c
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Ever since that dreadful summer of 2007, things have really been all doom-and-gloom for the American economy. Oil prices have surged, Foreclosures are at an all-time high, employment is starting to drop, and consumer confidence seems to be gliding down as fast as our gas prices are floating upwards. What’s small or mid-sized business owner to do i
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Despite economic downturn, the online economy keeps chargin' hard! And there's room for growth, considering that the U.S. Dept. of Commerce says that only 3.2% of all retail is online. Would you believe that its never broken 4%?
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Marketing to business owners has gotten tricky with credit markets tight and gas and food prices rising.
Marketing adviser Warrillow & Co. recently surveyed 2,036 small businesses with fewer than 100 employees on their expectations and needs during a troubled economy. Nearly 60% say they expect the real volume of goods and/or services sold in
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When a small business graduates from being home-based to having premises of its own, it's quite an accomplishment. But in this economy, some small company owners are deciding it makes more sense to move back home again.
Although a home-based business has become much more widely accepted, moving back when you're in financial distress might car
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In the 2008 American Express OPEN Spring Monitor, they found a sharp contrast between business owners over sixty and the small business population at large as they manage their way through the current economic uncertainty.
Entrepreneurs over sixty are taking actions that show they learned from their past experiences with inflation. Although the
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Inflation has sunk its teeth into small businesses this year. The number of owners citing inflation as their No. 1 concern on the National Federation of Independent Businesses monthly economic index in April was at its highest level since 1982. One in five owners is raising prices, according to William C. Dunkelberg, the trade group’s chief econom
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Not just retailers are in trouble in today’s economy. Companies that manufacture consumer goods, building material and the many other industries are also reporting difficulties.
Why should the average business owner care? Because another business that sells to one of these troubled companies may also be heading for disaster and that business mi
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The PubMatic AdPrice Index indicates that the economic slowdown in the U.S. has led to a 23% drop in overall monetization for the online advertising industry.
Large Web sites fared the worst while small Web sites managed to maintain their monetization rates, PubMatic said, adding that eCPMs for Web sites with more than 100 million page views p
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The turbulent economy is exposing yet another type of credit where bankers let their guard down: small-business loans.
Missed payments and losses on small-business loans are surging at banks throughout the country that were so eager to pad their profits that they essentially threw typical underwriting methods out the window. Some lenders doled
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