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Where Your Small Business Should Focus in the New Year

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]With a new year just around the corner, now is the time that businesses of all sizes reflect on the past year to review their successes and failures and develop or finalize a plan for the coming year. As a part of this plan, each business should consider shifts in their industries,...

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5 Small Business Trends You Need to Watch For

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]Small businesses owners are in for quite a treat in 2015. There are some major trends that are going to benefit small businesses across the country. If you're a small business owner thinking about what you need to do to get ahead in 2015, here are the expected trends, so you...

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5 Fantastic Ways Small Business Owners Can Relieve Stress

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]As an entrepreneur you probably have had friends or former colleagues say, “You're so lucky to be doing your own thing”. Yes, the experience of owning your own business and seeing your ideas materialize is extremely rewarding. However, the reality is that being a small business owner is extremely stressful, especially...

7 Small Business Online Marketing Must-Do’s

7 Small Business Online Marketing Must-Do's Online marketing offers small businesses the opportunity to promote their products or services at significantly lower costs and on a much larger scale than traditional advertising methods. However the entire gamut of online marketing tools - email, social media, blogs, websites, online customer forums, search campaigns, online ads and affiliate marketing to...

10 Apps to Help Run Your Small Business On The Go

10 Smartphone Apps to Help Run Your Small Business On The Go As a small business owner you are inevitably away from your desk and office a lot - meeting with clients, business partners, suppliers, distributors, or simply networking. While you are on the move work still needs get done and that can be a...

12 Must-Read Business Books This Holiday Season

12 Must-Read Business Books This Holiday Season Have that special small business owner or entrepreneur on your holiday gift giving list? Want to treat yourself to some enjoyable, business-boosting reading during the holidays? You've come to the right place, as we share with you an assortment of the best books available from some of our...

3 Ways Interactive Marketing Can Help Your Brand Stand Out in 2015

3 Ways Interactive Marketing Can Help Your Brand Stand Out in 2015 Consumers are bombarded with marketing messages each day, whether they’re watching TV, surfing the internet, or strolling through the expo booths at an industry conference. All of this noise has created immunity in customers, who now view ads as something to be ignored....

Thriving During the Holidays: How 5 Entrepreneurs Embrace the Unique Seasonal Opportunity

Thriving During the Holidays: How 5 Entrepreneurs Embrace the Unique Seasonal Opportunity For many small businesses, particularly retailers, the holiday season can be a double-edged sword. Often unprepared to compete with the massive big box retailer sales, failing to ramp up staff and inventory sufficiently, or simply not considered the unique holiday sales message, many small businesses find only...

Your Small Business Holiday Survival Guide

Your Small Business Holiday Survival Guide The holidays provide a wonderful time for small businesses to increase sales, customer loyalty and their overall reputation. But with so much hustle and bustle, planning and preparing can be difficult. In order to help our small business entrepreneur friends, we've put together a short holiday survival guide – a...