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Becky McCray of Small Biz Survival explores the trends that will be driving rural small businesses in the year 2010 in this piece for Small Business Trends. Read More

Think big, established companies make less risky clients than small businesses? Not when it comes to getting paid on time, according to recent data from credit bureau Experian. Companies with more than 1,000 employees are dramatically more likely to be... Read More

Small Businesses Can No Longer Afford To Be Dilettantes When Hiring. Great piece by Patricia Frame. She helps small to mid-size organizations achieve their goals through more effective human capital strategy and management. And she can be reached through her website SHRinsight.com, Read More

It will become easier to update all your networks with acquisitions of this kind.
Loic le Meur founder of Seesmic today posted on his Facebook Wall “welcome on board, Ping.fm team and users! (Seesmic acquired ping.fm).” Seesmic has expanded from the video sharing tool it was when it started. I use the Seesmic desktop regularly to manage my Twitter feeds and streams and Seesmic also recently acqu Read More

What does the king of search bring to Web browsing? Simplicity — and speed.. I use Chrome regularly as my browser of choice and like the fact that it gives you a warning if it detects any malware and is fast. This article gives you more reasons to use Google Chrome Read More

Interesting article comparing small business use of Social Media and forutne 500 companies and also giviens some tips on engagement Read More

As the use of blogging and social-networking Web sites continues to exponentially increase, so too grows the divide between management and employees.

Facebook is now reportedly the most popular social-networking site in the United States, when considering either monthly unique visitors or total monthly minutes.

And it's not just Generation Y who is online. Even upper-level executives are pa Read More

Do's and Don'ts for Your Marketing Dollars
The economy is down. Budgets are even tighter than normal. But you know you still have to spend something to market your company, right?. After all, what good is it having the “best” product or service if you don’t have customers to take advantage of it.

So with a tight budget, where should you — and where should you not — be putting your marketing d Read More

South Dakota lags behind much of the nation in small business performance. According to the Lake Herman Institute's Small Business Success Index, South Dakota ranks 39th on concrete measures of small business success.

While the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council's Small Business Survival Index ranks states by an ideological wish list, LHI's Small Business Success Index ranks states by t Read More

When Ukrops a Richmond VA Grocery chain was bought by Royal Ahold, the customers resorted to Twitter to keep in touch with each other and see what the Merger would mean to them. Using social media tools and hash tags they exchanged information. if this conversation was about your business are you ready to monitor and respond? Read More