21. Do You Use a Business Dashboard?

Large corporations use business dashboards to track key indicators about the business. Business dashboards can give up-to-the-minute visibility into how the business is performing, with charts, tables and graphs. Small businesses, however, usually...

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22. Small Business at the Court: 2007-2008 Supreme Court Roundup

There is no question that the Supreme Court's decisions impact small business. In fact, studies have shown that more than 40 percent of the Court's cases deal with issues that directly affect the business community. Those issues include employment, c...

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23. How to Hire the Best (for the least expense)

I wrote last month on Tips and Resources to Hire the Best. You’ll hire the best only when you recruit the best. As some readers suggested, and as Coppola did with Godfather II, I’m going to go back to the beginning, the start of the hir...

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24. We REALLY Wanted To Bring You This Show But . . .

We REALLY wanted to bring you July 15th’s show, featuring Tom Szaky, Founder of TerraCycle, but unfortunatley our broadcast network, BlogTalkRadio, was experiencing a network telephone outage. Gulp! Our guest couldn't dial in nor could our...

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25. Ask The Guest: What To Say After "It" Hits The Fan

Do you have a question for our upcoming radio show guest? When a business is facing a crisis and has to answer to the media, there is little time to react effectively. The stress created by a crisis often limits rational thinking and can lead to c...

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26. The Airlines Should Hire Behavioral Economists

We all know about the problems that the airlines are having with rising costs and their efforts to raise prices on everything - bags, snacks, good seats, and so on. Their problems are real and I wouldn't be the one responsible for figuring out a way...

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27. Pursuing Sponsorship Opportunities

In business, people talk about doing well by doing good. From employing environmentally sound business practices to giving a portion of proceeds to charities, there are countless ways for your business to give back. A prime example of an opportunity ...

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28. Monetize Your Website or Blog by Offering Trade Magazines

For this post I’d like to speak directly to all you small business owners who have a website or blog and would like to make a little money with it. As you may know, here at Small Business Trends we have a trade publications site from TradePub....

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29. Productivity, Like Water, Finds its Level

They say necessity is the mother of invention. I say sometimes just the opposite: invention is the mother of necessity. What if the tools we use to increase productivity raise the bar on what’s expected rather than really increasing our product...

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30. Organizing and Monitoring Telecommuting Employees

In the coming months and years, the skyrocketing price of gas will encourage more and more small businesses to set up telecommuting programs for employees. When employees can work effectively from home and contribute to the overall profitability of t...

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