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Improve Your Business by Improving Yourself
As a young man, Larry’s entrepreneurial journey began right out of high school when he started a carpentry business.  Larry’s journey eventually lead him to become the owner of a multi-national company with 27 patents that revolutionized the industry. Larry’s entrepreneuria......

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Sponsored Post – Benefits for Your Bottom Line: The Plum Card from American Express OPEN
Editor’s Note:  We offer long term sponsors like American Express the opportunity to speak to you in their own voice. Any such post is clearly marked as sponsored, like this one.  We hope you find this information useful. Managing ...cash flow is often a challenge for small businesses, and ...

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Self-Promotion for Introverts
My husband and I have had an on-going disagreement about self-promotion. He’s a chemist and an introvert and feels that his outstanding work should speak for itself. Being the extroverted smart-mouthed marketing person, I say that that paper and chemical formulations are inanimate object...s an...

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Tips For Creating Positive Word-of-Mouth For Your Brand
Great word-of-mouth can do wonders for your business, sometimes even more than any advertising campaign.  Why?  Because consumers trust other’s opinions and experiences about your services or products more than just seeing an ad or commercial.  So, how does your bu...siness attract great wo...

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Small Business Deals for Cyber Monday
It’s Cyber Monday — that famous online shopping day. And why shouldn’t it be a shopping day for small business people like us? Well it is! Here are a few hand-picked specials I recommend and hope you can take advantage of: HP store — Our long-time sponsor here, Hewl...

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Sales Are Off The Charts
There’s always that one guy in the office who has to correct you. You know the one; you order the veggie salad and he chimes in with “you know, technically tomatoes are a fruit, so technically you’re having a veggie and fruit salad.” Sigh… Everyone enjoys b...

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SBA and Treasury’s Small-Business Forum Discusses Access to Capital
You may have missed the news last week, but on November 18, the Small Business Administration and the Treasury Department held a forum to discuss ideas for increasing small business’s access to capital. The event, hosted by Treasury Secretary Timothy... F. Geithner and SBA chief Karen G. Mills,...

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Study: How Are B2Bs Using Social Media
Earlier this month we told you about the Business.com study that looked at how business professionals were using social media. Well, a newly released 58-page companion report attempts to evaluate the same results from the perspective of business-to-business (B2B) company execs, pr...ofessionals and...

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Happiness Matters: Following Passion, Not Money
Many entrepreneurs have varied professional backgrounds and Dan McComb, Co-founder of Biznik, is one of them.  Dan started his professional career as a photo journalist where he covered the end of the war in Bosnia and the extreme right-wing militia movement here in the Un...ited States.  Howeve...

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Proper Credit Policies and Procedures Can Help Minimize Your Cash Flow Risk
Along with slowing sales, many small businesses are encountering difficulty collecting on money that is owed to their business. A recent Intuit Payroll Survey of over 1000 small businesses indicated about 50% are having this problem. Is your bu...siness one of them? It’s hard to keep your c...

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SMB Owners Get Mobile Coupons For The Holidays
Google’s getting into the holiday spirit a little early this year, announcing the availability of mobile coupons for small business owners. The coupon part has been around for awhile, however, Google’s done a pretty good job failing to promote them. But no longer. With th...e change, any busin...

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Event Marketing Tools For Your Small Business
Today’s small businesses are adept at using online tools such as email newsletters and surveys to help develop strong relationships with their customers. While these tools can enable two-way communications, face-to-face interactions can be an effective way to build and insti...ll trust in thes...

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Who Is Visiting our Site, Why, And What We Do About It?
So, probably by now, you have a website, getting a bunch of traffic to it and you’re implementing some tweaks to your site along the way. And yet you’ve got this nagging feeling that you’re not making the most of your website traffic. Despite the many tools out ...there, I find that most of...

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