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A social news site emulates the Digg model and offers small business people a focused web presence for issues of interest to them. bizSugar launched with the goal of reaching small and medium businesses with a social media presence dedicated to business interests.
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As promised, we took 100 submissions and turned them into a downloadable PDF document.
It’s 33 pages of tips for marketing, including relationship marketing, marketing strategy, selling, messaging, online marketing and social media.
It’s all been packaged up tidily into a document for you to save, give to clients, print, post on your web More...
It’s 33 pages of tips for marketing, including relationship marketing, marketing strategy, selling, messaging, online marketing and social media.
It’s all been packaged up tidily into a document for you to save, give to clients, print, post on your web More...
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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.
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THE ECONOMIC STIMULUS package signed by President Bush on Wednesday includes two significant tax breaks for small-business owners. The provisions, designed to encourage business spending, come in the form of bigger depreciation write-offs:
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President Bush this week signed new legislation expanding small-business opportunities for veterans and helping reservists run their businesses after they've been deployed.
The Military Reservist and Veteran Small Business Reauthorization and Opportunity Act, introduced by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), will More...
The Military Reservist and Veteran Small Business Reauthorization and Opportunity Act, introduced by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), will More...
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30 VERY useful, FREE ways to Market your Business's Website. Some of them you may already know of, and some you may not!
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This is an excellent interview with Joel Spolsky of Fog Creek Software about how to bootstrap your business without taking money from a venture capitalist. Joel gives excellent advice for the majority of entrepreneurs who will start their companies up without being backed by a venture capitalist.
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Somewhat of a parody on the lives of entrepreneurs, and how they are forced to stretch the truth to get the critical things they need to survive.
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Billions and billions of dollars a year from every industry and various product lines are spent to perform these above functions. Do you? No, not spend billions of dollars, but do you incorporate top of mind awareness and brand recognition within every one of your sales and marketing calls?
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Amazon is doing something very similar with its new, quietly-launched Product Ads. Think of it as a shopping search engine built into Amazon, one that can link out to your site and drive new sales for pennies on the click.
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Some good tips on allaying prospects fears online in this great interview by expert on search engine marketing for small business, Matt McGee.
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Small Business Trends updates you on trends affecting the small business market. Edited by Anita Campbell.
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The meaning of the adjective radical is “not bound by traditional ways or beliefs.” Here are the “must dos” of a seasoned business unit’s radical salesperson and marketer.
No stone goes unturned in your search for new leads and clients; no sales idea is too silly or stupid to try; you sell to everyone, every day, no matter what their size; you
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It seems that many small businesses are having trouble finding these key employees in the first place. Three quarters of small business owners surveyed said that finding qualified employees is difficult and nearly three out of ten rely on family members such as their spouse to help them off the clock.
58% of those surveyed said that the benefi
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I am following my own philosophy that I teach: when you come across a new business idea, find the cheapest and fastest way to test it and just get SOMETHING out there which people can see and give you feedback on. This is far better than what most people do which is either (1) have a great idea and think about it so long you never take any action
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From the page: "When Ritu Raj opened Wag Hotel here as a luxury home-away-from-home for pampered dogs, he decided he would run the business on Google applications.
Employees check in dogs on touch-screen monitors, make appointments and use e-mail, all with Google Apps. The Web-based suite of tools — which includes corporate e-mail, calendar, w More...
Employees check in dogs on touch-screen monitors, make appointments and use e-mail, all with Google Apps. The Web-based suite of tools — which includes corporate e-mail, calendar, w More...
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Would you like to know which candidate will best represent the interests of small business? You're not the only one wondering. A poll at SBTV.com found most people believe Barack Obama would be the most responsive to the small business owner. Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee followed, each grabbing 20 percent of the votes in the informal survey.
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Knowledge is power, and it must be a cornerstone of understanding for operational and sales success against your current and future competitive set.
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New to bizsugar, I thought I'd share my experience of setting small business goals in a most unusual situation - JUST having gone bust. Hope it helps someone - new, successful or struggling. We all have challenges I hope this little tip can help with. You just need a pencil and a single sheet of paper.
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The more businesses a person owns, the higher his or her income, education level, and loan amounts and mortgage, finds an Experian study of small-business owners - sole business owners and multi-business owners.
Compared with the overall population, small business owners are more likely to be married and have children, have a college education
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From the Page: "When a Kansas City woman sought advice from The Today Show on supplementing her household income with a part-time job, Today’s Money 911 reporter Jean Chatzky topped her recommended work at home list with Virtual Assistant. Who would have thought? Finally, Virtual Assistants are gaining the respect they deserve. "
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Yelp! founder Jeremy Stoppelman, a former VP at PayPal, talks about how to rebound from difficult beginnings to go on to creating a site that millions of people visit every month.
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IN the latest twist on the information-age truism that technology is making the world even smaller, entrepreneurs in India are trying to build a new market for the offshore services they offer: helping small businesses cope with even the most mundane day-to-day tasks. Thanks to Indian companies like Brickwork India and GetFriday, even sole proprie
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In a new working paper called “Do Small Businesses Create Jobs? New Evidence from the National Establishment Time Series,” the economists David Neumark, Brandon Wall, and Junfu Zhang examine the National Establishment Time Series and conclude that small businesses create more jobs, on net, than larger ones. The earlier literature on this subject h
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There's a new neat little site you might want to bookmark.
One of the biggest small-business organizations has launched a new research portal that advocates and offers up support for today's SMB shops. The National Federation of Independent Business, whose mission is to promote and protect the right of businesses to operate and grow, just launc
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The National Federation of Independent Business along with SBTV.com and Sam's Club will give away a $100,000 business makeover as part of National Small Business Week beginning Monday through April 25. The makeover would include $25,000 in cash, merchandise, supplies and equipment from Sam's Club or samsclub.com, mentoring from SBTV.com experts
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RSS is an invaluable tool for any online business whether you are the reader or the publisher. Try being both to get the most out of the technology.
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Following declines in 2006, small-business hiring rose by 4.3 percent last year, even as labor costs went up, according to SurePayroll. Based on payroll data from more than 18,000 small businesses, salaries rose by 4.2 percent to an average $32,609, the Chicago-based payroll services firm reported.
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