
Reno, Nevada (PRESS RELEASE – April 30, 2010) – Miller Heiman, the proven leader and innovator in sales execution, is inviting business-to-business sales teams to enter Miller Heiman’s second annual Sales Team Makeover Contest, presented in affiliation with Hoover’s, Jigsaw,…

Branding may be the key component in small business. How you grow and leverage your business has everything to do with how you present it to the world. In small business, this branding is also personal since the entrepreneur is often intimately linked to the business. In our roundup for Small…

While attending the fifth annual Small Business Summit in New York this year, I had the wonderful opportunity to hear Seth Godin speak. Even better, attendees received a copy of his latest “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”
Moved by his presentation, I wanted to read his book to…

They say the roots of comedy are conflict. For example, a sales graph cartoon showing record profits isn’t nearly as funny as one where everything is going horribly wrong. But when it comes to firing one of my characters in a cartoon, even those that clearly deserve it, I find I have a soft…

Cleveland, Ohio (PRESS RELEASE – April 30, 2010)-As downsized workers continue to find it difficult to find well-paying jobs, more of them will consider becoming self-employed. One popular option is franchise ownership, and there’s certainly no shortage of opportunities to choose from.…

Healthcare reform will likely affect many despite how you as a small business owner feel about it. Critics would have you believe it will wreak havoc with the smallest of enterprises while others insist most small businesses will be exempt from mandatory requirements and reap the benefits of lower…

Waltham, Massachusetts (PRESS RELEASE – April 29, 2010) — 123Together.com – a mindSHIFT Technologies company and the leading provider of hosted, cloud-based email and business collaboration services – today announced the immediate availability of its hosted email encryption…

As a small business owner, you may think you don’t have to worry too much about creating a personal brand. Those ‘brand’ things are for bigger companies, the ones with budgets that rival a professional sports team. But the truth is, as a small business owner, you can benefit from…

Washington, DC (PRESS RELEASE – April 29, 2010) – iContact, an industry leader in email marketing services for small and mid-sized businesses, and Knowledge Institute, specialists in entrepreneurial education and development, today announced a joint partnership to help more…

Is this the golden age of small business? Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine thinks so. We lead off with an Open Forum interview of Anderson by marketing guru Seth Godin. It may feel strange to think of the tail end of the Great Recession as small business’s Golden Age, but…