Small Businesses Stronger

What Economic Slowdown? Small Businesses Grow Stronger Here is a great article for those worrying about the economic slowdown that is being ... is the entrepreneurs are better at for spotting money making opportunities and quickly on them. See ... predicted. 30343627.jpg I have said several times in this blog that as a small business owner [more...]

Date: 2007-11-08 18:50:51
Blog: Biz Plan Hacks - Main p...

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Cracking the Very Small Business Market: PayCycle CEO Jim Heeger (Part 1)

For years, I have looked at the small business market as an opportunity that technology vendors need to attack ... software business, also focused on small businesses. My intent in bringing you this series ... difficult to sell to small businesses. With the advent and popularity of Software-As-A-Service (SaaS [more...]

Date: 2007-10-15 13:39:11
Blog: Sramana Mitra on Strate...

Customer Serivce Hints...

Quick advice to make your customers happier Here is a great blog entry from How to Start a Two-Bit Operation: Small Business Tips blog. ... . Too many small business owners are so petrified of returns that they make the policies to extreme ... 30395366.jpg Small businesses need to use every tool possible to stay ahead of their competition [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 17:37:16
Blog: Biz Plan Hacks - Main p...

Cracking the Very Small Business Market: PayCycle CEO Jim Heeger (Part 2)

SM: A key issue with small business facing products is how do you reach your customers, give that it is such a fragmented market. What did Intuit do? ... . For us, to reach the really small business market, it had to be, rather than a sales play ... small business market. In the payroll space in particular, we are competing against service bureaus [more...]

Date: 2007-10-16 14:15:00
Blog: Sramana Mitra on Strate...

The definition of branding

One of my readers pointed out that they really appreciated the definition of marketing that I use throughout Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing is getting someone who has a need to know, like and trust you. Most small business ... . Every small business has a brand - either accidentally or intentionally, because it’s a lot [more...]

Date: 2007-11-07 12:50:03
Blog: Duct Tape Marketing Bl...

Returning Vets Eligible For Small Business Loans

ALBANY—New York State is making available $5 million in below market fixed-rate small business loans for returning military veterans. “For many New York small business owners serving in the Guard or Reserve, being called to active duty means shutting down their businesses,” state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said. “Small [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 01:56:10
Blog: North Country Gazette...

IowaBiz Breakfast Series Kick-Off

It's been a privilege to work and blog alongside some brilliant small business experts over at IowaBiz ... hear some Iowa business brains share their expertise on various small business matters. Here's ... . Now, this great resource is going offline with a monthly Business Building Breakfast series [more...]

Date: 2007-09-18 10:57:34
Blog: ConverStations: Busines...

Will Site Drop Out of Engines if Not Paying for SEO?

Dear Jill, I have a really quick question I hope you can help with ... like that is what's happening. Good luck! Best, Jill Discuss this article in the Small business Ideas forum. ... . There is a small business in town that is paying $200 a month to have another company make sure [more...]

Date: 2007-10-04 18:52:38
Blog: A Small Business Guide ...

Vote for Parallels

Vote for Parallels Yeah, fine, I'm a Parallels fanboy. I admit it. I'm proud of it. I own the title, and I happily disclose this fact to you ... for Microsoft, where many individual product teams dwarf the size of Parallels. I hadn't been inside a small business in ages. I don't even know if "small business" is the appropriate term, but after [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 02:02:15
Blog: Rory - Neopoleon - Blog...

FREE Pocket Consultants

On a daily basis I read articles on blogs and forums on branding, marketing and sales ... source for gaining knowledge on any topic. Every week, I submit an article to Small Business Branding ... it was that brought you to Small Business Branding and then caused you to linger a while and gather [more...]

Date: 2007-10-16 11:57:53
Blog: Small Business Branding...

Become a Micro-Loaner on Kiva

I’ve been meaning to mention Kiva for months. I was reminded by Bill Clinton’s recent remarks on giving (MP3) at a Slate 60 event ... to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can “ ... was recently featured on Oprah, and in three days all of their small business loan requests were filled [more...]

Date: 2007-11-02 16:16:23
Blog: Darren Barefoot - Vanco...

Healthcare share

LA Times reports diverse interests coming together on healthcare costs and plans ... is the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 issue for small business across the United States," said Todd ... unless small business has a seat at the table." ... Said Stottlemyer: "We have an obligation [more...]

Date: 2007-11-04 15:29:32
Blog: Angry Bear...

What if Google Bought Earthlink?

What if Google Bought Earthlink? August 6th, 2007 by Greg Sterling [ The image “http://w.eimg.net/i/nav/earthlink_logo ... price: A big pool of consumers and small business customers (think alternative sales channel ... . Posted in Acquisitions, Enterprise, Small Business, VoIP, Mobile | No Comments » [more...]

Date: 2007-08-06 14:32:21
Blog: Screenwerk...

Let’s play a little branding game

Most small businesses would define branding as the identity by which their company is recognized and all of the items it’s associated with, whether that be an advertisement, business card, voicemail message, etc… This would be correct ... to our small businesses, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try and create a branding object to call [more...]

Date: 2007-09-18 18:54:20
Blog: Young Go Getter -- A b...

A Raging Disaster

permalink | comments (0) Buy or Barter Bartering may date back to prehistoric times but makes sense for small business today ... channel to barter for small business. The power of the Internet has made bartering even easier [more...]

Date: 2007-10-26 10:21:51
Blog: About Small Business In...

Web 3.0 & Time Warner (Part 2)

Vertical Strategy Time Warner operates a host of online properties, which are extremely popular in the US ... in the sites of its popular business and finance magazines Fortune, Money, Fortune Small Business ... and coverage of various political, business and global events. The Smoking Gun publishes exclusive [more...]

Date: 2007-10-30 14:11:13
Blog: Sramana Mitra on Strate...

Insurance Discounts and Benefits for Veterans

Veterans make up a large percentage of small business owners according the Small Business Administration and the 2002 census that reported nearly 14% of all veterans (3.3 million people) own... [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 23:32:16
Blog: Business Insurance...

Helping Creative Entrepreneurs Market their Business and Sell their Products & Services

Last Friday I participated in a panel at Kent State's Entrepreneur Extravaganza for small business owners who were interested in learning more about starting and running a creative business. I was on the panel with Renee DeLuca Dolan - President ... to an entrepreneur: Small Business Development Center KRBC's Procurement Technical Assistance Center [more...]

Date: 2007-10-13 11:12:52
Blog: Branding & Marketing...

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Starting, running, or even working at a business is no small task ... Intelligence Pimp Your Work Property Crossroads Slacker Manager Small Business Boomers ... to venture capital, and everything in between. Behind The Buzz Brandcurve Business [more...]

Date: 2007-05-10 04:42:35
Blog: Just Make Money Online...

Columbia University’s Manhattanville Grab — Racist?

The Columbia grab for Manhattanville is very much in the tradition of Robert Moses who was notorious for uprooting low income housing and favoring ... for ousting existing residents and small business owners. There is virtually no representation ... will not be just African Americans.  One can expect the Latino small businesses and renters to the north [more...]

Date: 2007-10-13 12:55:56
Blog: Blogger News Network ...

No Way! - webcasters tell SoundExchange

p2pnet news | Radio:- The latest take it or leave it “offer” made by SoundExchange on behalf of the recording industry, ... generation. The Small Business Administration revenue cap for over-the-air broadcasters to be considered a small business is $6.5 million — this would seem a fair cap, with precedent. Also, the offer only [more...]

Date: 2007-09-20 16:42:32
Blog: p2pnet.net - the origin...

8 Blog Posts Worth Your Time

I thought it was time to dig through my del.icio.us account and highlight some of the many posts and articles I’ve bookmarked recently ... together by my friends at 10e20. Dear Small Business Owners: Put Down Your Ranking Reports: Matt ... valuable content. Good lesson here for small business marketers! The Best Damn On-Page Optimization [more...]

Date: 2007-11-06 02:00:58
Blog: The Lonely Marketer - A...

MerchantCircle Receives $10 Million in Funding

merchant circle Social network for business owners in North America, MerchantCircle, ... includes a premium service, which costs between $29 and $99 per month. For this price, small business ... to use some aggressive marketing tactics, which include cold calling small business owners and pre [more...]

Date: 2007-11-07 12:01:07
Blog: Mashable! - The Social ...

Search Foreign Turf for Locals

Search Foreign Turf for Locals Yet another survey confirms that small businesses are still marketing like it's 1989 ... to an Opus Research study. Small business remains the undiscovered country for search and online ... together, but they may be too late. A serial entrepreneur has registered more than 100,000 domains [more...]

Date: 2007-09-29 00:24:00
Blog: MarketingShift: Daily C...

FreshBusinessThinking.com Offering Internet Marketing Class and Free Online Business Resources

The Internet is now advancing far past popular news and entertainment to become a prime location for business resources. There is a new online business resource for small ... , and are centered around critical business topics such as management, marketing, finance, sales, coaching, legal [more...]

Date: 2007-09-11 00:16:09
Blog: Know More Media - Busin...

Intuit Bets on SaaS, Not Yet on International

In some of my earlier posts, I have talked about how Intuit has successfully penetrated SME with its killer app of small business accounting ... , its business is organized into six segments: QuickBooks, Payroll and Payments, Consumer Tax, Professional Tax ... its Intuit Distribution Management Solutions (IDMS) business for $100 million. On the financial [more...]

Date: 2007-10-25 14:02:08
Blog: Sramana Mitra on Strate...

Scheduling With NetSimplicity

Scheduling With NetSimplicity Filed under: Business & Marketing - 03 Nov 2007 As a small time business person, ... third parties would be privy to the workings of my small business and I am not comfortable [more...]

Date: 2007-11-03 04:54:11
Blog: She Rambles On...

Cracking the Very Small Business Market: PayCycle CEO Jim Heeger (Part 10)

SM: That is good insight to carry to the audience in this particular type of business ... at all. They are trying to focus on very small businesses as well, and are finding no vertical alignment ... : As it stands today, I don’t think we need additional financing. SM: You are profitable in terms [more...]

Date: 2007-10-24 01:33:07
Blog: Sramana Mitra on Strate...

Home Based Business

These days, working from home is a common sight, especially with the advancement and accessibility of the net ... to Get Your Business Tasks Completed with Less Effort and Excellent Results”. There are many other small ... include home based business marketing tips, businesses you can start with, business product reviews [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 23:38:13
Blog: MONTESSORIMUM.COM...

SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 8, 2007

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web ... freely available online, much of it contradictory. Small business owners who attempt to perform SEO ... . If you want... 10 Useless SEO Worries (Part 2) Small businesses are often left in the dark when it comes [more...]

Date: 2007-11-08 20:15:36
Blog: Search Engine Land: Mus...

Why Small Biz is Slow to Web 2.0

Brentlearyweb An interesting post on Seeds of Growth/Small Business Trends: 3 Reasons Why SMBs Have Not Flipped For Web 2 ... .0 discusses a recent study by Bredin Business Information. BBI found that SMBs (small and mid ... and wrote: ...as my buddy Paul Greenberg pointed out...the small business folks who have bought [more...]

Date: 2007-11-11 01:27:51
Blog: Golden Practices...

Debt collection software as seen in the Wall Street Journal

Okay, let’s get on with business. This site still ranks number one for the keyword make money so let me take advantage of that ... $1 Million dollar error and omission policy All letters reviewed by our attorney Small business ... your customer to the Credit Bureaus. If you ask me, it is one kick-ass product which small business [more...]

Date: 2007-10-08 06:22:00
Blog: Make$ Money$ - Truth, n...

Cracking the Very Small Business Market: PayCycle CEO Jim Heeger (Part 12)

SM: You may have to do some of that equity/liquidity swapping due to the structure of venture funds ... and what we are doing for very small businesses is that we are, I believe, the leader in having the most customers ... of things. My thought, when I got here, was that we were too small to focus on acquisitions [more...]

Date: 2007-10-26 14:26:54
Blog: Sramana Mitra on Strate...

10 Useless SEO Worries (Part 2)

Small businesses are often left in the dark when it comes to which SEO strategies really work and which don't ... . Small business owners who attempt to perform SEO for themselves are often left wondering. What strategies are more important than others? Which are worthless? How do you tell the difference? Click [more...]

Date: 2007-11-08 13:51:00
Blog: Search Engine Land: Mus...

Memo to Skype CEO Candidates: An Interview That Nails What Skype Can Be

AuctionBytes.com is an "independent trade publications for online merchants", clearly with eBay as their primary focus; ... about: OnState's focus on customer service and business communications for the small and medium ... marketing tool, especially in business-to-business conversations how an OnState ACD client builds [more...]

Date: 2007-10-26 12:40:34
Blog: Skype Journal...

Demo ‘07

DEMO, now in its 17th year, is a biannual conferences known for seeking out and showcasing important new technologies ... products and services to an audience of investors, business development executives, media ... ://www.ideablob.com - small business credit cards AgendiZe; Grapevine, TX; http://www.agendize.com [more...]

Date: 2007-09-26 02:37:17
Blog: dailywireless.org ...

A shout-out to my Nashville friends at StudioNow

I know, I know. Tech startup companies outside the Silicon Valley are not cool. (Note: that was an inside joke that goes back a few months) ... some money applying their video editing skills to a profitable dorm-room or home-based business. ... or small businesses interested in transforming digital photos and videos into high-quality content [more...]

Date: 2007-06-15 18:57:57
Blog: rexblog.com: Rex Hammoc...

Dawn: A Small Business Trends Movie

Last year I commissioned a 3-minute slideshow movie about trends affecting small businesses ... more.  Even though it’s a year old, the movie is still quite relevant — it focuses on long-term business trends, not short term fads. It also gives you, the business owner, pointers on how you can identify [more...]

Date: 2007-11-04 04:05:57
Blog: Small Business Trends ...

Talkswitch

One of the most expensive pieces of office equipment you’ll ever buy is a telephone system ... for small business packed with the latest VoIP technology. This phone system allow much greater ... . Small and medium-size businesses need phone systems that can help them respond to new business [more...]

Date: 2007-11-08 16:33:13
Blog: vivivava.com ...

PC Tyranny: Sticking it to the Little Guy, Again

Your business is directly impacted by whether the bookkeeper you choose to hire is (for example) ... businesses. Most of the value in a small business is in the direct profits it produces for the business ... homosexual, Baptist, vegan, Korean, female, Catholic, or divorced. Employment law may require [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 15:52:03
Blog: Zippy Catholic...

The Week Ahead: The Week of November 12

Congress is out today, as is the NAM, celebrating the 1918 abdication of Kaiser Karl of Austria-Hungary ... hearings is here. House hearings: Let's highlight useful activity by the House Small Business ... into legislative business at noon Tuesday, with 35 bills (!) on the suspension calendar. They praise, they condemn [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 11:50:09
Blog: ShopFloor.org: Manufact...

Online videos for small business

Isnt this the best time of the year. School holidays is just around the corner. I have a vacation to plan for ... . He was asking around some of his friends to introduce a Multimedia Company Produces Online Videos for small Business to help him out with his online marketing. Some of them ran such campaigns before [more...]

Date: 2007-11-03 02:06:58
Blog: Organic Income — * * It...

MySpace plans small scale ads

MySpace has been planning to replicate Facebook’s ad strategy, allowing advertisers to specify some of the facets of their intended market ... this up to casual users as well. If you have a small Ebay business, or have some other goods for sale ... to sell his fridge or car. For the home business runner that sells multiples of a small number of items [more...]

Date: 2007-11-06 11:09:35
Blog: Geek News Central Techn...

Business Plan Basics

failed business model t-shirt I have a business and offer writing services so, on occasion, I have been asked to write business plans ... the list based on Small Business for Dummies (by Eric Tyson and Jim Schell), which is available ... needed to support their soon-to-be highly profitable, cash-producing enterprises so they go to where [more...]

Date: 2007-06-14 21:48:59
Blog: Wise Bread | Personal F...

Entrepreneurs: Weekend Reading for Fun and Profit

I bookmark endless resources “to be read” at some point in the future. The sad thing is, that future rarely comes ... to help your business. My recommendation for entrepreneurs of any stripe (small business, startups ... it will percolate through all aspects of your business in the very near future. He doesn’t mention [more...]

Date: 2007-10-27 12:57:14
Blog: Instigator Blog...

How to SCORE some seriously good start-up help

I had a chance to visit with Ken Yancey, CEO of SCORE for this episode of the the Duct Tape Marketing podcast ... is a nonprofit association dedicated to entrepreneur education and the formation, growth and success of small ... to support small business growth and trigger success through complimentary educational [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 20:41:28
Blog: Duct Tape Marketing Bl...

Cracking the Very Small Business Market: PayCycle CEO Jim Heeger (Part 4)

SM: You decided to stay with Adobe for a few years after selling them Fotiva, correct? ... and Adobe? They were obviously both small business focused. JH: I had learned a lot about the VC community ... business in Adobe. They had been looking for someone for months and months. It was interesting [more...]

Date: 2007-10-18 14:13:28
Blog: Sramana Mitra on Strate...

Vertical Response adds multi channel tool

Vertical Response The race to be the biggest, baddest, boldest email marketing service is a grueling one ... for most small business marketers. So, the decision on using one over another usually lies in a detail ... will send out a high quality postcard mailing via 1st class postal mail. Small business marketers [more...]

Date: 2007-11-10 13:33:43
Blog: Duct Tape Marketing Bl...

Taking your business to higher level - how about funding?

Running a home-based business like I do is much harder than it appears to be ... on to rely on Small Business Lines of Credit. It is the easiest way for me to meet the needs of my vendors ... if you have collateral, you can find Small Business Lines of Credit that will allow you to manage [more...]

Date: 2007-09-23 04:02:18
Blog: Cheezmizan with Chuva ...

Newspapers and Advertising...

Newspaper circulation down, Web readers up This article goes over another important trend that you as a small business owner needs to keep track ... and get more detailed results. Most small business owners have a limited budget to use on advertising [more...]

Date: 2007-11-06 23:52:21
Blog: Biz Plan Hacks - Main p...

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