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Ever increasing gasoline prices, food costs soaring, struggling financial markets. The economic news just hasn’t been good, and there’s no indication that things are going to get better any time soon. But, do tough economic times spell only gloom and doom? Are there opportunities to be had even in the darkest days of a recession?
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Social media can be one of the great levelers for small business competing in today's global markets. Your boss may not know that. Here's 11 ways to help your boss correct that oversight and make you look good doing it.
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Unique, niche, targeted markets are the domain of small business. And it's all built around your reputation. Earn it, spread it, your business grows. Don't and it won't. Here's a post that shows small businesses some inexpensive online tools to help with the spread of your deserved rep.
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Global stock markets which are falling due to continuous rise in crude oil prices suddenly find some breathing space. Crude oil prices fell by 7% in the last 2 days due to fears of decrease in demand due to slowdown in American economy. US Banking stocks saw the sharpest rally ever in the last 16 years. Global markets are rising due to this unexpe
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Small-business exporters may face a problem in obtaining money from their lenders to buy or produce the goods or services to fulfill an export contract. They may not have the collateral to obtain sufficient working capital loans from their banks, particularly in times of tightened credit.
Enter the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the g
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24/7/52. What this phrase means is twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, and fifty-two weeks a year; this is the golden rule if you are marketing and selling your business unit's product line. Your marketing and sales efforts should never close, which means that you have 525,600 minutes a year to be open and to make sure that your business
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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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A new report issued by The Media Audit reveals that 43.8 million U.S. adults have read an alternative newspaper or visited an alternative newspaper's website in the past 30 days. The study, which compared past four issue readership among 117 papers across 88 U.S. Markets, reveals an average readership of 374,296 adults in 2007 compared to 362,938
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Selling overseas isn't just for the big boys. The weak dollar -- boosting exports and growing demand for an increasing variety of products -- makes this an ideal time for small businesses to join the party.
The U.S. Department of Commerce is eager to play matchmaker, helping to find and screen potential overseas partners and customers. Its Gol
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When economic waters are rough, small businesses shouldn't pull back but instead should take advantage of the void created by others who do. Experts advise taking the opportunity to increase sales and expand into new markets.
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"A good business owner will assess the situation and make a plan based on the opportunitie
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Some of last year's direst predictions about the economy are now coming true. Here's what you need to know about what comes next.
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Artisans, historically defined as skilled craftsmen who fashioned goods by hand, will re-emerge as an influential force in the coming decade. These next-gen artisans will craft their goods and shape the economy – through upswings and downturns – with an effect reaching far beyond their neighborhoods, or even their nations.
That's one of the c
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The Web is ushering in a new way of communicating with customers, but instead of the breathless hype of the old days designed to make one sale, we need to solve a customer's problem to create one relationship. If we truly help people, you can be sure that few of them will remember to buy from us. Unfortunately, more and more of our target markets
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A new global study of consumers found that the most popular forms of Internet advertising score at the bottom when it comes to consumer trust. Nielse
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