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A summary of 5 small business books that will make you smarter by influencers such as Carol Roth, Ryan Blair, Chris Brogan, Julien Smith, and more. Read More

Contests on social media can help your small business reach new customers and the data you can collect can help your business succeed. Read More

It is so easy to polarize the topic of gender and leadership. We could go there. But what are we really talking about? Humans do seem to have a penchant for creating dichotomies where... Read More

One of the best ways to make money is to work for yourself as an entrepreneur. It’s challenging, though, to stay productive – especially when you have to motivate yourself to get things done for your business. Here are 5 productivity tips. Read More

The best way to get more Facebook fans for your store is to entice them to "Like" your page with some sort of offer. Give customers a reward or prize in return for a "like" for your Facebook Fan page. This technique is called a "Reveal Tab" or a "Fan Gate" Read More

Want to learn more about social media for marketing your business? Then you've come to the right place - the following are the top authorities in social media as ranked by the Adage Power 150, PostRank, and Technorati. Read More

We’ve got this stigma in business that being number one is the only way to go. The problem with this theory is that there can only be one top dog, while there are hundreds of competitors. But guess what? Being number two ain’t bad either. Read More

In a survey of 501 small business owners by American Express OPEN, just 46% say they will take vacation in 2011. Read More

I watched a very interesting video on Tech Crunch TV the other day where venture capitalists David Lee and Ron Conway discuss some of the key attributes of their most successful portfolio company investments. Here's my take on their findings Read More

There are many simple mistakes you can make when starting a small business, but this post gives a pretty broad overview of the big missteps and perhaps clues for how to avoid them. Don't let the dangers or concerns connected to startups discourage you. Simply consider this a road map to your small Read More