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We regularly feature industry experts who share their knowledge. Below you will find a list of the experts’ articles, interviews and book reviews.
3 Reasons Contractors Should Register with Angie’s List and the Better Business Bureau from Diane Helbig
Kare Anderson
Sell More by Seeing Your Store Through Customers’ Eyes
A New Trend: Even-it-Up In Time of Need
Mark Anderson
Sticky Note Personal Computers
Sales: Looking Good For Some
Unleashing Bold Initiatives
The Savings Infrastructure
It’s A Deal
Make a Contract with Yourself for New Year’s Resolutions
Santa’s Naughty List
Copier Jam: Emergency Solution
A Remedy to Inbox Overflow
Ideas Lighting Up
Sales Are Off The Charts
Careers: Talking Turkey
The Deadly Internal Audit
Jumping Through Hoops of Red Tape
Business Acquisition: Didn’t You Hear?
Office Red Flag Warnings
A Disconnect in Meetings
My Very First Job
Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
When Your Numbers are Questionable
Providing The Direction Needed
Beat Your High Score vs. Increase Profits
Calling In Sick
Do That Sales Thing: Sell More!
How to Be an Awful Manager
Development and Research
Demystifying Those Spreadsheets
Need to Add Some Tricks to Your Bag?
Silly Job Interview Questions Managers Ask
Business Merger: You Didn’t Hear?
Fall Business Forecast
Job Promotion: Is It Written All Over You?
Sinking Small Business Revenue
The Business of Intellectual Property
Pie Chart Mania
No Comment
Oh, Those Flashes of Money-Making Inspiration
On Paradigm Shifts and Other Business Buzz Words
Financial Doublespeak
Can We Change These Numbers?
When a Background Check Is Not Needed …
Wacky Resumes from Job Candidates
Finding Money to Acquire a Business
You Are Smart, a Hard Worker and …
Ah, Wish That Business Were So Easy!
Those Cautiously Optimistic Industry Insiders
Does Your Office Have a Know it All?
When Focus Groups Are Not, Well, Focused
Driving Co-Workers Nuts by Keeping Them in the Loop
Every Business Has Its Pitfalls
How a Layoff Inspires a New Business
Do You Have Spunk and Gumption?
When Business Goes South on You
Spin Your Bad News
So Much for Landing on Our Feet
Making the Best of Low Market Share
New Year’s Resolution Contracts
New Year’s Resolutions Are Good But …
Even Snowmen Read the Fine Print
Get That Report on My Desk by Three!
How NOT to Lay People Off
How to Confuse Co-workers
In This Economy Anything Can Happen
Why Those Gurus Don’t Have All The Answers
Do You Hate Name Tags, Too?
A Halloween Full Moon
More Fun with Charts – When Sales Decline
In This Economy Everything is Dropping
Going from Bad to Worse … and Back
Manager-Employee Miscommunication
It’s a Volatile Market
What, Me Obsessive About Checking Email?
Doing the Lateral Career Move
Instantly Improve Your Sales Numbers
Employee Motivation for Clock Watchers
Dawn Rivers Baker
Top Microbusiness Opportunities for 2010
5 Microbusiness Trends: MidYear Update
A Quick Refresher of CAN-SPAM Rules for Email Marketing and Newsletters
Business.gov Has Snazzy New Features
A Public Program That Actually Returns Money to the Treasury
5 Key Microbusiness Trends for 2009
Top Ten Opportunities in 2008 for Personal Businesses
Microbusiness Trends for 2007
Microbusiness Trends for 2006
Hamlet BatistaThe Google Data Mine and Your Business
The Google Data Mine: Are You Using It Or Is It Using You?
Laura Bennett
Pet Industry Trends for 2010
Pet Industry Trends for 2009
Pet Industry Trends for 2008
Pet Industry Trends in 2007
Pet Industry Trends for 2006
Tim Berry
Product Review: Google Docs For A Book Manuscript
10 Lessons Learned in 22 Years of Bootstrapping
Telling Truth With Lies in Stories
Accountability Part 5: 7 Critical Truths
Accountability Part 4: Crystal Ball and Chain
Accountability Part 3: Metrics and Management
Accountability Part 2: Both Sides Now
Accountability Part 1: War of the Worlds
Top 10 Software Publishing Trends for 2009
Paradox: Stay the Course or Bail
A Planner’s 3 Rules on Resolutions
Relationship Cluelessness Celebration Day
Pop Quiz: What is the Worst Thing to Cut Right Now?
If the Sky is Falling, Say So
Charity Add-on: Does it Work? Is It Real?
7 Business Planning Fundamentals
Productivity, Like Water, Finds its Level
Who is "Small Business Owners?"
Blogging: Business, Pleasure, Death Sentence?
Startup Culture Shock: Is Startup Life Life?
Writer Tip: Use Slide Deck for an Outline
Stop It: Dreaming Isn’t Working
A Tech Consumer Moment
6 Tips For Involving Your Kids in Your Business
5 Things I Like About My Tablet Computer
Are Your Employees’ Hours Quality Time or Quantity Time?
Don’t Let This Happen To Your Network
Being the Boss is Overrated
Big Brother in Small Business
Travels with Email
Name This Tune: Cash, Growth, and Profits
Economic Dark Clouds and Your Business
Andy Birol
Money and Mojo: The New Keys to Small Business Success
Five Mistakes When Selling to Small Business Owners
Owner’s Series Books for Business Growth
Why the U.S. Presidential Election Doesn’t Matter
Your Best and Highest Use (Audio)
David Bohl
Aspiring Entrepreneurs: No Money? No Problem! Get Started Today
5 Methods to Conquer Loneliness When Traveling on Business
Who Else (Besides a Majority of Business Professionals) Wants Work Life Balance in 2008?
Entrepreneurs: 5 Sure-Fire Business Resolutions for 2008
Entrepreneurs: Remember the Promise of the Paperless Office?
Will Amazon “Kindle” a New Lifestyle Trend?
Entrepreneurs, Does Retirement Fit Into Your Plans?
Travis Campbell
10 Things You Can Do in the Next 60 Days to Market Your Business and Close More Sales
5 Reasons YouTube Should Be A Part of Your Social Marketing Strategy
Laurel Delaney
10 Predictions, Forecasts and Trends That Will Shape Our Global Small Business World In 2010
How to Get Paid on International Transactions
Top 10 Global Trends for Small Businesses for 2009
Building Global Bonds One Customer at a Time
Is Your Export Business Recession-Proof?
Resolutions to Do Business Globally in 2008
12 Days of Christmas in a Web 2.0 World
What’s Ahead in Our Brave New Cyberworld
Who Moved My Client Base?
Small Businesses Are Going Global
Tom Ehrenfeld
Tom Ehrenfeld, The Startup Garden…final installment
Tom Ehrenfeld, The Startup Garden … continued
Introducing Tom Ehrenfeld, Author of The Startup Garden
Jonathan Fields
When Luxury Becomes A Four Letter Word
Differentiate Or Die In A Downturn
5 Simple Ways To Get Paid To Build Your Brand
Slogan Smackdown: Managed Services, Managed Better
Grab Attention Of Top Editors And Producers With Social Media
Margie Zable Fisher
10 Ways to Have a Great Business and a Great Life in 2010
9 Items Every Consulting Agreement Should Include
Top 10 Publicity Tools for $1 or Less
What You Don’t Know About Marketing to Women
Top Five Types of Twitter Messages to Grow Your Business
Now is the Time to Get Free Publicity for Your Product in Holiday Gift Guides
The Secret Weapon for Getting More Publicity
Diane Helbig
3 Reasons Contractors Should Register with Angie’s List and the Better Business Bureau
3 Sales Lessons from the Massachusetts Senate Race
Is it Magic or Mindset?
A Better Viewpoint on Updating Social Media Sites
It’s What Time?!
Paying Attention is a Good Sales Strategy
Customer Loyalty Reward Programs: A Way to Increase Revenue
Sales: It’s About Them, Not You
Diversify or Die
Employee Contracts: Preventing Problems Down the Road
Subcontractors – One More Reason For A Contract
Death by Contract — Or Lack Thereof
A Dirt-Simple System for Qualifying Sales Prospects
Do You Hear That Banging?
Tell Me Why I Should Buy From You
Start Out Simply
Wendy Kennedy
Are You Ready for Cyber Monday?
Why Would Anyone Pay Thousands for a Domain Name?
3 Facts About Domain Names Everyone Should Know
Steve King
When Your Small Business Grows, Should You Move it Out of Your Home? Millions of Biz Owners Say No
Top 10 Homepreneur Trends for 2010
Book Review – Reality Check: The Best of Guy Kawasaki
Jim Kukral
YouTube 101 for Small Businesses
Using Linkedin As A Small Business Owner
Social Bookmarking and Networking Using bizSugar.com
How and Why To Use Twitter For Small Businesses
George Langan
Social Media Sites Making Money? Are You Kidding?
Software for the Virtual Office: Mimicking the Physical Office
Stop Spreadsheet Anarchy (MP3 Audio)
Brent Leary
Free Webinar: Must-have Technologies for Competing in Today’s Market
How to Measure the Impact of Social Media: Webinar
Introducing the Small Business Wednesday Webinar Series
Passing the TAG (Twitter and Google) Test – Free Webinar
CRM Trends in 2009 – Extension, Automation and Captivation
From the Desk of the CEO… Chief Exploration Officer
Commit an Audacious Act Online Today
Social CRM: Not Your Father’s Customer Relationship Management
Master of My Domain Names
3 Reasons Why SMBs Have Not Flipped For Web 2.0
The 3 Most Asked Questions About CRM by Small Business Owners
The Technology You NEED in 2008 (Audio)
Robert Levin
Trends Into Opportunities: Strategy, Sales and Websites
Trends into Opportunities: More Competition for Employees and Customers
Joel Libava
The Top Franchise Trends For 2010
The Burger King $1 Cheeseburger: How Much Does It Really Cost?
Franchise Owners Could Be Getting Some Love In 2010
Multi-Unit Franchising: What You Need To Know
Work-At-Home Franchises: Real Opportunities Or Scams?
Is Buying A Franchise Really Buying A Job?
The World Of Mobile Franchise Opportunities
Pet-Related Franchises; More Bark Than Bite?
It’s Franchise Social Media Time!
5 Fantastic Things About Franchising
Franchises Are Becoming More Transparent
Downsized? Franchise vs. Corporate Employment
24-Hour Fitness Franchises Still Growing; Is There Still Room For More?
The Top Franchise Trends For 2009
Will The Franchise Industry Need A Bailout?
How To Not Buy A Franchise
Rating The Franchise Directories
Franchise Shows Worth Your Time?
Does This Franchise Company Get It?
Franchising Convenience
Owning A Piece Of The Pie. Is a Food Franchise For You?
Franchise Industry Feeling The US Economic Slowdown — Part Of a Cycle
Small Business Tools From The SBA
Is Franchising a Viable Option For Veterans?
The R Word and Economic Woes — The World Will Go On
Often Overlooked Benefits Of Franchise Ownership
The Top Franchise Trends For 2008
Here’s To Your Health (Care)
Help For the Time Starved: Service Franchises
Nellie Lide
How to Turn Your Existing Business Green
The Green Umbrella: Green Business Opportunities
Green: Taking Care of Business, Ourselves and the Planet
Shopping Trends for 2007
Martin Lindeskog
Love Is The Killer App – Or How to Get Ahead by Helping Others
Time for a Small Business Safety Network?
Duct Tape Marketing: The World’s Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide – A Book Review
The Illusions of Entrepreneurship – A Book Review
PowerBlog Review: Joseph’s Marketing Blog
The Small Business Climate in Different Countries
Graham Lutz
20-Something Business Trends: The High School Graduate
20-Something Business Trends: The Online Entrepreneur with Time and Money
John Mariotti
20 Tips to Save Time and Money in Your Small Business and At Home
Ten Reasons I Won’t Use Social Media Sites
Small Business Employment Trends for 2007
Clate Mask
Hunting vs. Harvesting: Which Method Describes Your Customer Acquisition Strategy?
Who Is Visiting our Site, Why, And What We Do About It
Finding “The Zone” in a Tough Economy
Are You Hunting or Harvesting?
Your On Again, Off Again Marketing Relationship
Mark J. Miller
The Baby Boomer Path to Starting a Business
Next Big 2.0 Opportunity: Facebook for Grownups
Marketers Listen Up: Boomer Women are Happier and Wealthier
Reaching Baby Boomers on the Internet
Barry Moltz
The 10 Customer Service Trends for 2010
You Must be Crazy!
Stage a Business Coup (Audio)
Denise O'Berry
Protect Your Cash or Lose Your Business
Proper Credit Policies and Procedures Can Help Minimize Your Cash Flow Risk
Is the Economy Really Improving for Small Business? You Decide
Small Business Confidence In Economy Dips Again
Top 10 Trends In Managing Small Business Finances in 2009
To Survive This Economy You Must Automate Your Small Business
Creative Tactics To Pump Up Your Cash Inflows
Ramon RayTop Ten Technology Trends for Small Businesses – 2009
Top 2006 Technology Trends for Small Business
The Technology You NEED in 2008 (Audio)
Susan Reid
Begin Your Economic Recovery. Lower Your Prices Now!
Top 10 Resolutions for a More Profitable 2009
How to Define Your Niche for Your New Business
The Olympics for Small Business Owners
How Many of You Became Entrepreneurs Accidentally?
Zane Safrit
Is Your Social Media Clap-on, Clap-off?
7 Steps to Boost Productivity and Profits by Up to 40%
Which Report is the Important Report?
16 Things You Can Do Yourself to Create Word-of-Mouth for Your Business
Dear CEO: Thank You for This Meeting
Listen to Your Employees
Social Media: Speak our Language, Please
Jobs: What’s the ROI to Create or Save One?
19 Tips to Bring Focus
Can Company Gossips Serve to Inspire?
How to Keep the Best: Welcome Them with Open Arms
How to Keep Your Best Ones
How to Hire the Best (for the least expense)
Tips and Resources to Hire the Best
Why Word-of-Mouth Should Be Core to Your Business
Time-Generating Resources for CEOs
Scott Shane
Small Business Cash Flow Problems Still Not Declining
A Million Startups that Offer Lasting Good Jobs
Understanding Data on Recessions and Start-ups
Entrepreneurial Pessimism or Worse News Coming on the Job Front?
Do VC Investments Made in a Bad Economy Perform Better?
Is the Job Loss Among Entrepreneurs Reversing Itself?
Exit Rate of Angel Group-Backed Companies
How Many Start-ups Hit Angels’ Growth Targets?
Top 5 Trends for Small Business Finance in 2009
Some New Data on Entrepreneurial Finance
The Funny Math of the Angel – Venture Capital Financing Gap
The Myth of the Active Investor
Dead Economists, the Auto Industry, and Entrepreneurship
Can Entrepreneurs Fix the Job Loss Problem?
Are There Recession-Proof Industries for Small Businesses?
What do Angel Investments Look Like?
Immigrant Entrepreneurship Puzzle
Managed versus Market Capitalism
The Size of Angel Investments
What do Business Angels Look Like?
Can Angels Make up for Declining Venture Capital?
What do You Want to Know About Entrepreneurship?
What can Entrepreneurs do to Deal with the Credit Crisis?
Will the Credit Crisis Hurt Venture Capital?
Credit Market Turmoil and Peer-to-Peer Lending
Which Entrepreneur Will Transform the Auto Industry?
Five Percent Certainty and the Performance of Biomedical Start-ups
If You Had $500 Million to Promote Entrepreneurship, How Would You Spend It?
A Missing Public Policy?
The Entrepreneurship Lottery
The Wrong Reasons to Support University Entrepreneurship Programs
Should Carly Fiorina Know the Stats About Women Entrepreneurs?
Are Criminals and Entrepreneurs Similar?
The Black Swan for Entrepreneurs
The Airlines Should Hire Behavioral Economists
Same Sex Marriage and Venture Capital
Behavioral Economics for Entrepreneurs
Gazelle Firms
Zero Capital Gains on Start-ups – A Not So Good Idea
The Mall Bathroom Test to Identify Entrepreneurs
Start Your Business in a Favorable Industry That You Know Well
Start-up Failure Rates Vary — Choosing the Right Industry Matters
Potemkin Village Ventures
Where Are All The Angel Group Investments?
How Do Entrepreneurs Come Up With New Business Ideas?
Startup Failure Rates — The REAL Numbers
Strategy in Networked Industries
What Should MBA Programs Teach Aspiring Entrepreneurs?
Enterpreneurs See Opportunity in Bad News
Our Genes and Desire for Sensation Seeking Might Influence Entrepreneurship
A Mistake That Policy Makers Make in Encouraging High Growth Start-ups
Peer-to-Peer Lending and Entrepreneurship
Four Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make in a Recession
How the Presidential Candidates Would Help Entrepreneurs
Born Entrepreneurs?
Testosterone and Entrepreneurship
Why Investors Won’t Believe Your Projections
The Value of Failure
Fortunately, Americans are Becoming less likely to Start Businesses
Why is the Rate of Entrepreneurship Among African Americans so Low?
Five Myths about Financing Start-ups that Hurt Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs Finding it Harder to be Successful
Aaron SmithGo Mobile! Apple’s iPhone Defining the Mobile Computing Experience
Let Your Customers Pay with Credit Cards
More On Group Drawing and Annotation Tools
Perfect Technology Tools: The 90% Rule
Google Apps: The Sleeping Giant?
Ivana TaylorSuperFreakonimics is a Fun Way to Challenge Your Assumptions
“Positioning: How To Test, Validate, And Bring Your Idea To Market” Is a Smart Book
Review of Daniel Pink’s “Drive”
Review of Crush It!: Why Now is the Time to Cash in on your Passion
Book Review: The Constant Contact Guide to Email Marketing
Is Starting a Business Right for You? A Book to Help You Decide
The Worst-Case Scenario Business Survival Guide
Why You Should Read “Awesomely Simple”
Greening Your Small Business: Book Review
Editor’s Choice Awards: 2009 Best Small Business Books
Talk Less, Say More
Self-Promotion for Introverts
Review of Viral Loop
Book Review: I Love You More Than My Dog
Take the “Leap” to a Richer, More Fulfilling Life and Career
Book Review: You Are What You Choose
15 Bedtime Stories that Keep Entrepreneurs Awake at Night
The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Build Better Products, Reach New Audiences, and Sell More Stuff
Fierce Leadership: A Bold Alternative to the Worst “Best” Practices of Business Today
Book Review: Stretching a Dollar to Save and Make Thousands
How Are Business Books Like Restaurants?
No Limits: How I Escaped the Clutches of Corporate America to Live the Self-Employed Life of My Dreams
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Social Media But Were Afraid to Ask
Book Review: Creating Competitive Advantage
Divas Doing Business is a Surprising Book
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life
Riches in Niches: A Book Review
The Anatomy of Buzz Revisited – A Review
Book Review: The Secret Code of Success
Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success
Review of Content Rich: Writing Your Way to Wealth on the Web
Book Review: My Biggest Mistake And How I Fixed It
Top Small Business Marketing Trends for 2009
Best Small Business Books
Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, A Book Review
Review of Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy
A Digital Picture Frame with a Non-Digital Benefit
Review of The Answer: Grow Any Business, Achieve Financial Freedom and Live an Extraordinary Life
Book Review: Entrepreneur Journeys
12 Low-Cost Marketing Ideas for the Ho-Ho-Ho-lidays!
No Excuse for No Marketing Plan: A Review of Marketing Plan Pro
Best Sites to Find Business and Marketing Templates
How You Use Document Templates – Survey Results
8 Pricing Strategies you can Implement Right Now
The Art of Pricing
A One Page Marketing Plan Anyone Can Use
Rub My Tummy and It’s a Deal – Book Review
Why Social Media Should Be a Key Ingredient in Your Marketing Mix
Want to Make Money While Sleeping? Read: Beyond Booked Solid
Book Review: 365 Personal Brand Marketing Thumb-Rules
Book Review: The 7 Triggers to Yes
Book Review — Workination: Are you Fascinated with Your Career?
How to Get and Keep Customers with a Marketing Kit
The Complexity Crisis — Why Keeping it Simple is Not Stupid
Steven Teo
New Business Ideas: Easier Life Online
New Business Ideas: The New Tourism
New Business Ideas: Wacky Gizmos
New Business Ideas: Design is King
New Business Ideas: Super Supermarkets
New Business Ideas: The Power of Many
New Business Ideas: More Than Shoes
New Business Ideas: New e-Shopping Ways
New Business Ideas: Green Cuisine
New Business Ideas: Smart Cab Services
New Business Ideas: Wireless Wonders
New Business Ideas: Love for Pets
New Business Ideas: Health is Wealth
New Business Ideas: Common Scents
New Business Ideas: Vending Machine Variety
New Business Ideas: Convenience at Your Doorstep
New Business Ideas: iEconomy for iPods
New Business Ideas: A Twist on Tee Shirts
New Business Ideas: Social Networking Niches
New Business Ideas: It’s My Own Car
New Business Ideas: Ultra Luxury
New Business Ideas: Cell Phone 2.0
New Business Ideas: Attention-Grabbing Advertising
New Business Ideas: Food On The Go
New Business Ideas: Eco-Friendliness
New Business Ideas: Targeting Nostalgic Consumers
Watts Wacker
Futurist Watts Wacker’s Trends to Watch in 2006
Anti-Trending and Other Trends for 2005
Information is King…and Other Trends
John Wyckoff
The Little Detail that Matters for Small Retailers
Customs Seizures a Protection for Small Business
Retail Trends: Safety Sells
The Christmas Conspiracy
Working On, Not In, The Business
A Dangerous Trend
BMW’s Ad: No Respect
Harley, Short Sellers and Franchisees
Chinese Competition’s Impact on the U.S.
Pocketbikes and Pit Bikes – A Red Hot Trend
Powersports Industry Trends for 2005
Retail Trends: The Eyes Have It
How Harley Davidson Lost its “Cool”
Creating a Great Customer Experience
Motorcycle Industry Learns Women Rule
Jack Yoest
Politics as Marketing
Easy Sales: The Trend for Small Business
Respect: The Ultimate Business Etiquette
Job Candidates With Body Art: Hire Or Not?
Late Is Rude and Bad for Small Business
The Peak Experience
Rest to get the Best from Your Small Business
Small Business Super Star Hiring Hassle
Job Interviews: When To Lie
Practice for Small Business Managers
The Latest Trend In Hiring Requirements
Silence Can Be Golden and Good for Small Business
3 Questions for Mentors and Advisors in Small Business
Senator Bill Frist and Small Business Healthcare
Hiring? The Best Question To Ask a Job Candidate
Military Management: The New Trend for Small Business
Women’s Future in the Small Business Labor Force
Event Planning: Keeping it SAFE in 4 Easy Steps
The Management of Bureaucrats: 1 Rule, 3 Options
Sales Persistence & Knowing When To Stop
10 Reminders for Effective Management
Other People’s Time: OPT-in Management
Two Perfect Job Candidates? Here’s How to Choose
Business Composure and Leadership
7 Points for Sales Presentations
Big Business Supply Chain Management: A Small Business Option?
Bloom Where Planted or Search for Fertile Ground?
