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Starting a business is much more than a business. Makes you stronger in so many new areas. Read More

If time would be really money, how would you manage it? Read More

This 'Anti-WholeFoods' sentiment was triggered by CEO John Mackey, as he denounced the government's involvement in health-care, using it as an opportunity to promote WholeFoods' positive influence on the society and how it could help reduce health problems in America. Read More

Small business owners resist creating marketing strategy like many resist getting their teeth cleaned. Over the years, I've discovered why this is: An effective marketing strategy requires understanding who you are, choosing to be different than everyone else, and committing to one simple way of doing, acting and creating — to the exclusion of Read More

BizBox's Anonymous Banker explains how the federal government's small-business lending program has utterly failed, and which banks are to blame. Read More

Twitter is planning to tag location to your tweets more accurately. Tagging location right now depends on users to fill in their current location manually. With people putting their location as “at the top of your mind!” or “in your heart”, it doesn't really make up to reliable location data. This new API will allow developers to add latitude an Read More

These 10 tips for using Google Alerts in your small business come from Small Business Informer and are a great resource for any small business. Bloggers have long known the value of using Google Alerts to keep up with breaking news in their niche and to get topic ideas based on the latest buzz. No matter what your product or service, you'll find Read More

In this great guest post from theorist Seth D. Brown on Jeff "Ski" Kinsey's blog, Seth looks at how to avoid spreading yourself thin in the small media departmnent. Instead of worrying about all the applications out there, Seth suggests looking at what each service does for you and avoiding redundancies that consume too much time and return lit Read More

Business Pundit has this post originally reported by The Dayton Business Journal about an Ohio pizza chain with the great small business marketing idea of offering 1960's era prices to celebrate its 44th anniversary. The chain expected to sell 20,000 pizzas during the promotion which apparently lasted just one day, Aug. 10. I don't know how much Read More

I just thought I'd share this past blog post. If anyone is having trouble embedding BizSugar voting buttons into Blogger, check out this post. It addresses an irrational little quirk .... If you use Blogger (Blogspot) Read More