These are the burning issues I am hearing recently that are keeping entrepreneurs awake at night:
Social networking confusion: so many sites, so little time. How do you tell which ones are worth your while?
Google Ad costs rise: as more big companies turn to search marketing, smaller businesses…
QuickBooks has over 3 million small businesses in the United States using the desktop version of its accounting software program.
But the big buzz these days is about online software, or as it is called, software as a service (SaaS). With SaaS, instead of installing software on your computer, you…
This is a follow-up from my previous post comparing LinkedIn and Facebook for use by entrepreneurs.
An alert reader notified me that as of today you can now import your LinkedIn profile into Facebook.
This feature is one of the many Facebook “apps” that people use to tailor the…
For several years I have been using LinkedIn and getting good value from it. For anyone who is not familiar with LinkedIn, it’s a useful site where you can create a professional profile of yourself, almost like an online resume.
These days, few of us get a job for life. Instead, you have to…
Micro-multinationals are startups and small companies that do business globally right from the start.
Traditionally a company got off the ground locally, then expanded nationally. When it got really big, it went global.
You may have heard the SAP commercial where a businesswoman says,…
I have noticed two extreme schools of thought about choosing a domain name (URL) for your website:
School of thought #1: According to this theory, it doesn’t really matter what your website’s URL is. Pick anything. You’re going to get most of your traffic from Google, paid search…
Last week I featured an interview about the future of affiliate marketing and the Web. My interviewee, Sam Harrelson, talked about how in the future we may be accessing the Web without the use of a browser.
This morning I ran across an extension of that same idea, from venture capitalist Fred…
Do you ever wonder what it takes to get your small business written about in the USAToday Small Business Connection blog column?
Jim Hopkins, the Editor, makes it easy on you. He says, “Please join my entrepreneurs panel!”
You can fill out an online survey with some information…
Recently I’ve run into a number of new small-business related blogs (new to me, at least). I have enjoyed visiting them and want to point them out so that you can visit, too:
Small Biz Labs
Inside Small Business
The Franchise King
Terinea Weblog
iBusiness Channel blog
One Job Two…
Dell, the computer makers, just launched a new line of computers designed specifically for small businesses, called Vostro. (Yeah, Dell!)
Last week they held a town hall meeting in New York for the launch, featuring Dell CEO Michael Dell. Guess who got to be the emcee of the event? Ramon Ray of…
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