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7 Ways To Spice Up Your Blog

As a small business blogger, you’re constantly looking for new ways to spruce things up. Letting your blog sit stagnant with the same format, the same type of content and the same feel can increase the chances that visitors aren’t reading your blog, but are skimming it or ignoring ...

Entrepreneurship, Taxes and Orange Spheres

Perhaps you noticed that Ohio recently lost a successful entrepreneur who moved his business to Florida, where taxes are lower.

Of course, like many entrepreneurs who relocate their businesses to low tax states, his decision was only partially influenced by taxes. Other factors, specifically his desire to build a ...

Small Business News: Social Media and Other Tools

The success of small business owners can be directly tied to the tools they use for their ventures. Those tools can include social media and other resources as well. Today’s small business news roundup is chocked full of a range of tools to improve your small business. Enjoy. Social Media ...

Buying A Franchise With A Well-Known Brand Doesn’t Guarantee Success

I know that lots of people go into franchise ownership because they feel that they can piggyback on an established brand, thereby increasing their chances of success. That’s certainly logical thinking. But sometimes, business defies logic.

For instance, take a look at the SBA’s loan default rates for 2 of ...

5 Ways to Turn Email Newsletters into Valuable Customer Insights

Sure, sending newsletters is a great way to send information to your customers, but what information are you getting back? You might think collecting information at subscription is the only way to get data out of your newsletter, but there are several other ways you can get your company newsletter ...

Credit Union Lending: A Solution to Small-Business Capital Crunch?

Some people think that higher limits on the amount credit unions can lend to small business will make a difference in easing the so-called entrepreneurial credit crunch. Others are not sure there even is a credit crunch. And to some, this is all about feuding between community bankers and credit ...

New Contests and Awards for Small Biz

Here’s an updated list of contests, competitions and awards for small businesses, brought to you every other week as a community service bySmall Business Trends and Smallbiztechnology.com.

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Find Your Zebra: Watch Your Sales Skyrocket

Selling to Zebras: How to Close 90% of the Business You Pursue Faster, More Easily, and More Profitably, by Jeff and Chad Koser (Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2009), came highly recommended, and I was sent a review copy by the authors’ Vice President of Marketing, Christine Ullman.

The ...

Small Business News: Your Social Media Brand

If social media is a new generation of marketing/PR/(insert your own description here), than figuring out how to integrate the power of social media into your small business brand is probably a key step for marketing in both the online and offline world. Social media may have many aspects and ...