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Valerie Gunderson, a Minnesota communications consultant, has been able to balance a successful at-home career with raising her two sons. Time management is a key for "microbusiness moms" like Gunderson and others who have been able to achieve the balance they couldn't get while working a "50-plus-hour-a-week" job in a conventional workplace.  More...
This is a great list of open source software alternatives. The author lists 50 of the most commonly used proprietary software solutions and offers a free alternative.  More...
So what would an Obama Presidency look like for business? "It would be a pragmatic, center-left administration," says Democratic political strategist Steve McMahon, who is unaligned with a Presidential candidate this year. "He's been pretty clear that business would have a seat at the table, but business wouldn't be able to buy all the chairs  More...
Blasting ads indiscriminately at audiences works less and less as we move forward in time. This is true for online and offline marketing. Savvy marketers now realize organic propagation of one's message is much more effective from a monetary and communications POV.

Publishing Web Digest for Marketers since April 1995 has shown Larry Chase what  More...
This article points out the obvious marketing mistakes that you should never make as a small business.  More...
Business.gov the official business link to the U.S. Government, managed by the U.S. Small Business Administration has developed a new search engine for small business owners.  More...
How can this be? How can A-list bloggers be churning out huge resources and intellectual debate, and here I am, outranking them all on one of the biggest social media sites on the Internet… with a bloody quiz!?!  More...
No one ever said owning a business would be easy. The title of being an entrepreneur isn’t something that you should take lightly. It takes a special kind of person to achieve entrepreneur-status, and an even better one to maintain it. I believe one of the biggest factors in my own success has been my ability to set goals.  More...
Many entrepreneurs don’t have the luxury of having a separate accounting department, instead doing their own number crunching. It’s not always easy, but you can make it less difficult by making use of the huge number of free financial tools for businesses that are available on the Internet. Here are 100 calculators that can help you get and keep y  More...
At its simplest, a wiki is software that lets users work together to create and edit a collection of linked web pages. The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is the best-known example - its 85,000 contributors have written, edited, and policed the content of more than nine million entries. Like Wikipedia, all wikis benefit from the network effect: The m  More...
Powerful tips on how to get the power you have always wanted. Useful and practical strategies to help improve your negotiation.  More...
Once upon a time directories provided value to webmasters who were either looking to get new sites indexed or increase their site's link popularity or both. Now I am seeing a trend where directories are not as helpful in these two areas as they once were. Add to that the rising costs of submission fees and it is easy to see why the small business  More...
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  More...
From the page: "Traditional resumes are boring. They become stale and out-of-date, they can't really showcase your work or achievements, and they end up just sitting in the bottom of someone's inbox. A paper resume, while professional, doesn't really let an employer get to know you. Many sites are trying to solve the problems of traditional re  More...
From the page: "I was really disappointed today from a post I saw from a recruiter that was trying to hire sales candidates for a startup. It was strikingly ineffective to the degree that if I had not received the message myself (and didn't know that it was serious), I'd have thought it was a joke. Trust me, it's not."  More...