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The economy pretty much stinks right now, doesn’t it? But no matter what the economy is doing on any given day, your small business will not survive if you have more money flowing out of it than you do coming in.
You must have a cash flow strategy for your business if you plan on staying in business.
Here are some tactics to help you keep yo
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Small businesses are feeling pressure from the economy and are looking for ways to save money. New data from a study conducted by the U.S. Federation of Small Business and DYMO shows just what these businesses are doing to cut costs:
- 23% of respondents have cut staff
- 36% of respondents have decreased business travel
- 36% of responden
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It’s not the nicest thing to do. But for small-business owners who are having difficulty collecting receivables from their customers, especially in this tight business climate, this is an extreme option that just might work.
They’re turning to a complaint-and-resolution Web site called Uradeadbeat.com, which seeks to make nonpaying customers or
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As a small business owner you may not always have the money to invest in the tools you really need. That's ok. You might actually be surprised to learn how just how many great low cost and even free tools there are to help you improve your online marketing.
In this workshop, Matt McGee of Small Business Search Marketing walks attendees throug
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John Jantsch shares his top seven quick fix strategies to re-energize your marketing today!
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Here’s a question for you:
If you had to pick one move that you’ve made in your business (past or present business) that had the biggest impact on profitability, what would it be?
Just as for other articles here in the Small Business Success Center, I once again polled several entrepreneurs. This is how they answered the question:
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After you’ve been in business a few years you look back. Suddenly everything is so obvious. Too bad all those things that seem so clear now, were not so clear then, when you were living through the early years of your startup.
Here are 3 lessons by Anita Campbell that could have saved her a lot of expense and time:
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Popular entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and blogger, Guy Kawasaki understands business. Guy is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine, and author of eight books on innovative business.
Here he shares with us a list of the five most important lessons he's learned as an entrepreneur.
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Small Business Trends posted bizSugar 5 tips so that entrepreneurs and business owners can highlight and share their best content.
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Yours truly, Founder of BizSugar, is the featured guest in this Episode of The Small Business Trends Radio. I share a few lessons I've learned from over 17 years of helping small business owners and from starting my own business ventures, and I identify common mistakes that even experienced business owners make and offer tips to help put your bus
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Google recently enhanced their keyword suggestion tool and added search volume and some measure of competitiveness. The reason the PPC engines offer tools like this is to help people get better at bidding on search terms and offer suggestions for more terms to bid on. Serious PPC folks use this tool to help determine bid amounts and bid on thousan
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Cajole your boss into giving you a raise, win someone round to your point of view, or persuade your partner it's their turn to put out the trash - getting people to do what you want can be very handy.
Persuasion is a key element of all human interaction, from politics to marketing to everyday dealings with friends, family and colleagues.
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In the profit-centered business, customer happiness is merely a means to an end: maximizing profits. In the customer-centered business, customer happiness is an end in itself, and will be pursued with greater interest, passion, and empathy than the profit-centered business is capable of.
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