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Home-Based Businesses Employ More People Than Venture Backed Companies
Home-based businesses employ more people in the United States than venture-capital backed companies. This surprising fact — along with a number of other myth-busting facts — comes from a new report titled “Homepreneurs: A Vital Economic Force.” ... The report is culle...
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Home-based businesses employ more people in the United States than venture-capital backed companies. This surprising fact — along with a number of other myth-busting facts — comes from a new report titled “Homepreneurs: A Vital Economic Force.” ... The report is culle...
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What To Do When You Don’t Like Your Boss
We’ve all suffered through employment for employers that we didn’t necessarily like – or enjoy working for. If you are currently in that situation, or have been at some point in time, you’ve come to realize that everybody copes with that atmosphere in a different way.
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We’ve all suffered through employment for employers that we didn’t necessarily like – or enjoy working for. If you are currently in that situation, or have been at some point in time, you’ve come to realize that everybody copes with that atmosphere in a different way.
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How to Protect Yourself Against Data Mining
You may not know it, but online data mining moves at a constant and steady pace, collecting details about your personal life and habits that could have dire implications in the not-too-distant future. These findings are documented in Digital Exposure, an article by Elizabeth Svoboda published ...
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You may not know it, but online data mining moves at a constant and steady pace, collecting details about your personal life and habits that could have dire implications in the not-too-distant future. These findings are documented in Digital Exposure, an article by Elizabeth Svoboda published ...
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Latest Small Business Events
November is shaping up to be a busy month for small business events – both live and online. Here’s our latest list, brought to you every two weeks by Small Business Trends and Smallbiztechnology.com. Pubcon Las Vegas November 10 -13, 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada PubCon is four ...
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November is shaping up to be a busy month for small business events – both live and online. Here’s our latest list, brought to you every two weeks by Small Business Trends and Smallbiztechnology.com. Pubcon Las Vegas November 10 -13, 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada PubCon is four ...
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Is the Economy Really Improving for Small Business? You Decide
As the economists declare we are coming out of the recession, I bet your bottom line tells a different story. After all, they declared the recession months after you had already been knee deep in the throes of the struggle to keep your head above water for ...many months. But the good news is that ...
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As the economists declare we are coming out of the recession, I bet your bottom line tells a different story. After all, they declared the recession months after you had already been knee deep in the throes of the struggle to keep your head above water for ...many months. But the good news is that ...
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Do More With Less: Examine Your Business Processes To Stay Competitive
Staff reductions are typical targets for controlling costs in tough economic times. This can be particularly challenging as you attempt to balance responsible fiscal management with fluctuating sales while maintaining customer expectations for qualit...y, support, and customer service. The answer t...
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Staff reductions are typical targets for controlling costs in tough economic times. This can be particularly challenging as you attempt to balance responsible fiscal management with fluctuating sales while maintaining customer expectations for qualit...y, support, and customer service. The answer t...
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Green Business Tips Contest Winners Announced
This past September we asked you to contribute your best tips for going green with your small business. As a token of our appreciation, we gave every U.S. resident who contributed a chance to win a Free HP Desktop Computing Suite. And the winner is… Congratulations to Lizette Pirtle! L...
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This past September we asked you to contribute your best tips for going green with your small business. As a token of our appreciation, we gave every U.S. resident who contributed a chance to win a Free HP Desktop Computing Suite. And the winner is… Congratulations to Lizette Pirtle! L...
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New SBA Proposed Regulations Strengthen the 8(a) Program
The Small Business Administration has been quite busy. They just announced proposals that improve the 8(a) Business Development Program for disadvantaged small businesses. The proposed 8(a) regulation changes were made after the first comprehensive review of th...e 8(a) program in several years. ...
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The Small Business Administration has been quite busy. They just announced proposals that improve the 8(a) Business Development Program for disadvantaged small businesses. The proposed 8(a) regulation changes were made after the first comprehensive review of th...e 8(a) program in several years. ...
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10 Twitter Tools For Your Small Business
Twitter has become a great tool for not only meeting and communicating with people in your personal life but it’s also a great tool for business. As I’ve shown you before, there are many Twitter apps you can use for marketing your small business. There are additional Twitter tools...
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Twitter has become a great tool for not only meeting and communicating with people in your personal life but it’s also a great tool for business. As I’ve shown you before, there are many Twitter apps you can use for marketing your small business. There are additional Twitter tools...
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10 Things You Can Do in the Next 60 Days to Market Your Business and Close More Sales
Every small business marketer wants to be intentional about their marketing — ideally, marketers should have a marketing calendar. Truth is, many organizations do not. It’s 60 days before the end of the year. There’s still time to... take steps to close out the year strong. ...
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Every small business marketer wants to be intentional about their marketing — ideally, marketers should have a marketing calendar. Truth is, many organizations do not. It’s 60 days before the end of the year. There’s still time to... take steps to close out the year strong. ...
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100 Green Small Business Tips
Back in September, we asked our readers to contribute their best green business tips. We wanted you to share your ideas for going green in your small business. As usual, the Small Business Trends readers came through. We were able to collect 100 awesome green small business tips. We listed...
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Back in September, we asked our readers to contribute their best green business tips. We wanted you to share your ideas for going green in your small business. As usual, the Small Business Trends readers came through. We were able to collect 100 awesome green small business tips. We listed...
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6 Ways To Create Opportunities on LinkedIn
Life is so unfair. Just because they’re shinier, Twitter and Facebook often scoop up the attention for being social networking powerhouses. And they are! However, if you’re a small business owner, you also need to be paying attention to LinkedIn. Over the past few years, LinkedIn has pro...
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Life is so unfair. Just because they’re shinier, Twitter and Facebook often scoop up the attention for being social networking powerhouses. And they are! However, if you’re a small business owner, you also need to be paying attention to LinkedIn. Over the past few years, LinkedIn has pro...
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Top 5 Small Business iPhone Apps
Small business owners have to make the most of every minute to be successful. Blackberry says their smartphones allow you to reclaim an additional 60 minutes of downtime every day (that’s 250 hours each year!) and with these 5 apps on your iPhone you may be able to do even better. QuickOffi...
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Small business owners have to make the most of every minute to be successful. Blackberry says their smartphones allow you to reclaim an additional 60 minutes of downtime every day (that’s 250 hours each year!) and with these 5 apps on your iPhone you may be able to do even better. QuickOffi...
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6 Ways To Create Opportunities on LinkedIn
Life is so unfair. Just because they’re shiner, Twitter and Facebook often scoop up the attention for being social networking powerhouses. And they are! However, if you’re a small business owner, you also need to be paying attention to LinkedIn. Over the past few years, LinkedIn has prov...
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Life is so unfair. Just because they’re shiner, Twitter and Facebook often scoop up the attention for being social networking powerhouses. And they are! However, if you’re a small business owner, you also need to be paying attention to LinkedIn. Over the past few years, LinkedIn has prov...
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How to Cherry Pick Ideas to Improve Your Business
Do you know where the term “Pirates of Silicone Valley” comes from? Well, did you know that Bill Gates borrowed the idea for Windows from Steve Jobs? And Steve Jobs borrowed the idea from Xerox and Xerox borrowed the idea from an obscure academic researcher? Hence, the birth of...
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Do you know where the term “Pirates of Silicone Valley” comes from? Well, did you know that Bill Gates borrowed the idea for Windows from Steve Jobs? And Steve Jobs borrowed the idea from Xerox and Xerox borrowed the idea from an obscure academic researcher? Hence, the birth of...
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