BizSugar.com › User › tuckerleroy › Voted

If you ponder whether Twitter could ever be valuable or useful or productive, read this excellent piece by Richard MacManus at the famous ReadWriteWeb. In fact, spend at least an hour a week at his blog... I just blogged about it at my AllBusiness.com blog because I was blown away by the forward thinking content. Read More

Small business advisor, entrepreneur and blogger Tim Berry talks to SBTV on the topic of starting a small business. Tim offers up some interesting advice on whether wanting to be your own boss is a sufficient reason to go into business for yourself and whether he thinks the business idea or the desire to be involved in entrepreneurship should com Read More

Search engine giant Yahoo! may be selling its Yahoo! Small Business division as part of a move to divest itself of all services and products not related to its core operations. Yahoo! Small Business provides domain names, Web hosting, E-Commerce, E-mail and online marketing for small business. Reuters has the full story, but as an aside, this is a Read More

The U.S. Treasury Department is preparing to buy up small business loans from the Small Business Administration in an effort to get small business lending back on line. The Washington Post reported the federal government is preparing a $15 billion initiative to stimulate small business financing since private lending has been slow to rebound. For Read More

Many people don't go into business because of the uncertainties, lack of success guarantees, and the unfamiliar. They're hesitant to try something new. Read More

Most of you who know me know I am big fan of Guy Kawasaki and not just because he was an Apple evangelist but because he understands startups. He invests in them, launches his own and writes no BS books on the topics that are must reads for anyone out there looking to start a business, especially if you are looking to raise capital for your busines Read More

Health insurance, healthcare, is both an important investment for small business and a huge expense that risks being forced onto small business, regardless of their ability to pay. Now's the time to educate yourself on this issue and its impact on your business. This post and the comments lay out many of the issues and much of the dialogue going Read More

Every business at sometime has lost a customer to a competitor. Losing a customer, especially ones that you have enjoyed a good relationship with in the past can leave you feeling many emotions such as hurt or even anger. Often, however we never take the time to find out why they have left or more importantly how we can win them back. Read More

Once you've spent time developing a great search engine optimization (SEO) and Pay Per Click strategy, you want to then measure the success, right? Also, you obviously want to drive all of those people who click on your keywords to some kind of destination, right? Well if you simply direct them to your Web site home page, how will you know specifi Read More

Incorporate these seven traits, or habits, into your twittering and you'll be sure to be a more popular Twitterer. For an all around better time Tweeting, be quick to follow users exhibiting these traits! Read More