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One blogger, Rosalind Resnick on Entrepreneur.com, lays out an alternative bailout proposal. Instead of spending $700 billion on large conglomerates like AIG, the Fed should offer businesses and consumers loans at the 2% federal funds rate so homeowners could refinance at much lower rates and businesses could have immediate access to the cheap cap Read More

How are the credit markets affecting small businesses in the United States. To try to get some statistical data to answer their questions, the author decided to take a look at peer-to-peer lending. Peer-to-peer lending gets at part of the effect of the credit markets on small businesses because some entrepreneurs borrow money from other individual Read More

A lot has been made of the recent post at Google's Webmaster Central Blog regarding duplicate content. The post, entitled Demystifying the “Duplicate Content Penalty”, basically calls into question the idea that a site can be “penalized” for having significantly similar content to another site and places the blame on webmasters and SEOs for perpe Read More

Part two of the Business Blues series explores the ins and outs, and unintended headaches, of getting your business a domain name. Read More

You may never get a star on Hollywood Boulevard, but many bloggers are making their companies and themselves famous by blogging. And more than half say it's helped them get recognized at work. Hooray for Bloggywood ... Read More

A great story about how a TypePad representative used Twitter to provide stellar customer service. Read More

A great assessment tool is available through the Maryland SBDC that can be used by anyone who is thinking of starting their own business. Read More

Here are seven myths about employee surveys. They are based on the questions we've heard from cients over the years. The myths are found in bold text below and our attempt at debunking each myth follows. Read More

A loyalty program, of course, will not increase a customer's loyalty, so that should not be the overriding goal. Rather, the purpose of the program is to demonstrate the company's loyalty to a good customer, and often that surfaces in economic value like discounts, gift certificates, points, etc. Read More

This story discusses the benefits of business cooperation. Your business competitor does not have to be your enemy. You can exchange clients, referrals, IP, and assistance during busy periods. Grow your business with your competitor. Even the CEO of COKE and Pepsi play golf together. Read More