Small Business Trends

Navigating the Recruiting Maze

For a lot of hiring managers and small business leaders, hiring remains the most crucial pain point. If you magically get the right people, stuff just gets executed. However, we never make the perfect hiring decisions all the time. Sometimes we are in a hurry to fill the role, and ...

New Bulk Listing Management Tool From Google Places

Businesses with multiple locations should be breathing a heavy sigh of relief now that Google has introduced a new and improved bulk listing management tool designed to make the whole process easier and faster for business owners.

Google revealed several new changes last week which have ...

All Eyes Are on Facebook With Multibillion-Dollar IPO

Facebook is a big deal these days, not just because of its multibillion IPO, but also because of the impact the social networking giant has on the 900 million who use its tools. Some of those are small business owners who depend upon FaceBook to provide services they cannot do ...

Judgment Marketplace: Turning Uncollected Judgments Into Cash

Has your business ever gotten a judgment in a court, only to find it was worthless because you didn’t have the time or the know-how to collect it?

Judgment Marketplace aims to solve that problem for you.

JudgmentMarketplace.com is a website for selling and buying judgments. Small business ...

To Tweet or Not To Tweet, Social Media: A Blessing And A Curse

It’s a blessing, and a curse.  At least that’s what Mr. Monk says about his condition — maybe it’s true about ours.  Maybe social media is a blessing, and a curse?  If you’re in business today, internet marketing is a requirement and social media plays a role in ...

12 Ways to Convert A Looker Into A Sale

You’re holding a product at that brick-and-mortar store, debating if now is the time for you to spend money on something you’ve been wanting — or needing — for some time now. As you weigh out the pros and cons silently to yourself, an inevitable deterrent appears out of the ...

Small Business Pinterest Starter Guide

Now hailing 11.7 million unique visitors a month, Pinterest has become the fastest standalone site to pass the 10 million visitor mark since, well, ever. But even more impressive than that are what those 11.7 million visitors are doing once they land on Pinterest — they’re staying and they’re ...

Getting More Impact from Integrated Marketing

Integrated marketing can mean different things to different people and in different markets. But in general, its about managing marketing through multiple channels to create a single message. If you’d like to improve the integration of your own marketing campaign, here are 10 ideas to consider:

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Brewing the American Dream

Every big business started as a small business. Jim Koch, founder of The Boston Beer Company, like any entrepreneur, knows the struggles of being a small business owner. One of the biggest challenges is securing capital in a tight credit market.

Recently, Koch, one of ...