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Erica Douglass started a business online and sold that business at age 26 for $1.1 million, but her advice can apply to any entrepreneur no matter what kind of business you may operate. Erica argues that if you start a business just to make a few extra bucks a month, you are probably destined to fa Read More

The discussion about social media versus your business Website and what part each plays in your online branding and marketing efforts seems a never ending one. But online marketing consultant Matt McGee maintains that in this eternal debate, online business owners should always remember that their Read More

Business owners and startups are piling into social media marketing like never before. BizBest researched over 100 social marketing tools – including some that are brand new – and came up with this sweet 16 list of incredibly useful tools every business should try. Read More

When you think of creativity, you might think of excelling in the arts or something that it is inborn. But neither of these tell the whole story when it comes to being creative. Read More

Obama’s recent victory secured his second term as the President of the United States, and as with the start of any new Presidential term, businesses and the general public are eager to see how policy reforms will affect them directly. The Obama small business policies reiterated in his campaign cal Read More

There is no denying that video is a powerful tool. According to Forrester Research, 1 minute of video is worth 1.8m words. Video provides a multi-sensory experience - an audio, visual and emotional experience all in one. Read More

As a company founder, you want to maximize the valuation of your technology company in an exit sale. You need to - and can - plan for this years in advance. This interview looks at some of those planning issues. Read More

Leadership is about more than just process, says entrepreneur and consultant Gary O'Neil. Process can help your business move along more efficiently, but great leaders do more than establish great processes in order to get people to follow them. Great leaders are able to project their belief system Read More

There's an old saying: If it isn't broken, don't fix it. And that's the simple rule J.C. Penny should have followed when it came to the company's tried and true pricing strategy, insists entrepreneurship blogger Hammad Siddiqui. But, of course, J.C. Penny's strategy was broken. The department store Read More

Small business owners need more than great skills to be successful. They need the proper strategy.You may know how to use Facebook and other social media correctly, how to set up a blog, and how to create a newsletter, explains Jim Connelly. But unless you have a strategy for combining all these el Read More