1. Read "Found Money" and Improve Your Business and Your Life

If someone had told me that I would be THIS excited about finance and accounting book, I would have probably let out a big fat raspberry sound.  I barely tolerated my finance and accounting courses through college and business school.  And I looked f...

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2. Small Business Goals: Fitness Conscious, Want Sales, Looking for Work-Life Balance

For the past month and a half we’ve been running a poll here at Small Business Trends, asking a simple question:  What is your top 2010 resolution? While it’s not exactly a statistically-sound survey, the results are pretty interesting....

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3. A Boost To Consumer Confidence

I don’t understand the economy. Not before the crisis, and certainly not since. (It’s a good thing I can draw funny pictures.) It seems like every week I hear in the news some new indicator or report that suggests that something may or...

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4. Where are All the Women High-tech Entrepreneurs?

According to technology entrepreneur and researcher Vivek Wadwha, women entrepreneurs continue to be poorly represented in technology businesses. Wadwha enlisted the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) to analyze data on 5...

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5. How To Get More From Google Alerts

As a small business owner, I prefer simple tools. I like having one tool that I can push to the limits over a slew of them that I have to manage. It makes my life a little easier and m processes more streamlined. Which is why I'm a huge fan of usin...

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6. 5 Great Questions To Ask Franchise Company Executives Before Buying A Franchise

If you’re looking to become a franchise owner, there are several ways for you to increase your chances of success. One way is to arrange some time to talk with the operations people at franchise headquarters, and if possible, the president of t...

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7. Which Type of Twitter Account Should You Create?

There's nothing difficult about heading to Twitter and creating an account to represent your business. What is difficult is knowing what kind of account you want to create and the voice you’ll be using with it.  That takes some thinking about. ...

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8. Free Webinar: Improve Your Profitability With Practical Tips, Not Theories

These days, many of your customers may be tightening their purse strings.  Others are holding off on spending — period.  There’s a lot of pressure on small business profit margins. The good news is that times like these present the perfe...

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9. Tax Tips For Micro-Businesses And The Self-Employed

Self-employed businesses are often on top of the world – that is, until the dreaded tax time arrives. Keith Hall, a certified public accountant and the National Tax Advisor for the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE), joins Anita ...

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10. SMB Owners: Are You Segmenting Customers?

We make marketing blunders when we don't know who it is we're marketing toward or when we try to treat all of our customers the same way. The truth is that our customers are not the same. They don't take to marketing the same way, they don't want t...

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