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By Pierre DeBois - October 30, 2010

Few books are providing a rallying cry for the environmental and social shifts impacting goods and services. The Mesh: Why The Future of Business Is Sharing is one of those books. Its cry is worth a listen.

I listened to its author, Lisa Gansky (@instigating on Twitter), at the first BizTech Day conference in New York, as I skimmed the free ...

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By Anita Campbell - October 29, 2010

This series is commissioned by UPS.

One of the challenges of small businesses going global is the complexity of dealing with language and local requirements. However, if you do your homework, you can sell your products and services outside the U.S. even ...

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Small Business News: The Art of Entrepreneurship
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By Small Business News - October 29, 2010


The art of entrepreneurship balances tons of factors from navigating complicated policy, marketing and financing realities to building and molding a winning team and then leading that team to victory. All of this must be done, of course, with a constant eye to the vision of your business itself. This ...

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By Jamillah Warner - October 29, 2010


Although we share the same continent, when it comes to international e-commerce between Canadian customers and U.S. retailers, the differences can be enough to sour a sale. And business is nothing but a hobby if we fail to close the deal.


In a challenging economy (like this ...

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Frankenstein Meetings and Halloween Greetings
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By Mark Anderson - October 29, 2010



With Halloween just a few days away, I thought the above cartoon would be appropriate. It’s one of my recent favorites.

I was writing a batch of holiday cartoons and I’d jotted “Frankenstein” down on a notepad. I took Frankenstein and ran him through my standard group ...

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Small Business News: Marketing Mashup
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By Small Business News - October 28, 2010


While sales may be the lifeblood of any small business, marketing is an important part of positioning your product, service or brand making it easier for those sales to occur. Too often marketing is seen as the fluffy, artsy side of your business and perhaps this is why it is ...

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By Tim Berry - October 28, 2010


Earlier this week I posted True or Not? Top 10 Election Talking Points on Small Business, a slide show with reader voting, on the Huffington Post. Here’s how that turned out – the points listed in order from most true would have been a 1, to most false, which was a ...

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Why Aren’t More Women Interested in Franchise Ownership?
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By Joel Libava - October 28, 2010


I’ve never really understood why men dominate general inquires about opportunities in franchise ownership.

Well, maybe I understand part of the reason: It’s the numbers.


According to a report by Catalyst, only 13.5 percent of Executive Officer positions at Fortune 500 companies were held by women, and ...

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Small Business News: The Case For SMBs
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By Small Business News - October 27, 2010


Small to medium sized businesses remain the backbone not only of the U.S. economy but of economies around the world, yet the tensions between entrepreneurs and government policy always seem palpable. If we want our economies globally to survive and thrive, we must tell our leaders to adopt policies that ...

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What’s the Difference Between Men and Women Entrepreneurs? Apparently, Not Much
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By Rieva Lesonsky - October 27, 2010


There’s been a lot of heat generated in the blogosphere lately about the shortage of women entrepreneurs in technology and what’s behind this problem—or if it truly is a problem, or if it even exists. While many experts were weighing in on the differences between male and female startup founders, ...

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