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Business Answers: Most Effective Marketing & Going Global
March 6, 2011, 12:00am PST
Alfred Edmond, multimedia editor-at-large for Black Enterprise, and Cameron Johnson, a serial entrepreneur and author, answer viewer questions about the most effective forms of marketing and...
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Manage Your Cash Flow
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this webcast the author tells to view the exclusive footage from the Cash Management Solutions panel, where a group of experts offered key advice about how to streamline business processes to...
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Top Five: Managing Your Travel Budget
December 19, 2010, 12:00am PST
This webcast speaks about the high price of travel can easily send your expenses through the roof. Here are five tips for managing your company's travel budget courtesy of AllBusiness.com.
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Business Answers: Steady Vs. Fast Growth & Approaching Partners
November 21, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors answer viewer questions about finding investors for a company that isn't growing fast and the best way to establish contact with the decision maker in a larger company that could be a...
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How To Scale Your Business
December 15, 2010, 12:00am PST
Three years ago, one of the author started Bonobos, a pants manufacturing company, out of his own New York City apartment. Today, Bonobos has expanded its operations overseas and he reveals to the...
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Top Five: Tax Tips
December 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
2011 is almost here and that means tax season is right around the corner. Here are five tips for keeping your taxes in order courtesy of the author, small business columnist for The New York Times.
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Business Answers: The Value Of Your Company & Limiting Social Media
December 5, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this webcast the authors answer the viewer questions about determining the value of the company and how much social media interaction might be too much for your customers.
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How To Motivate Employees
December 7, 2010, 12:00am PST
While some companies offer bonus opportunities as a way to motivate its employees, Dan Ariely thinks bonuses causes just the opposite. The author of The Upside Of Irrationality tells the author of...
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American Business: Betrothed To Business
February 13, 2011, 12:00am PST
The advantages of working with your significant other can be quite obvious, but there are some clear drawbacks as well. Would you feel comfortable managing your better half? How would you handle...
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Small Business Rules: The Inhabitat Rule
November 18, 2010, 12:00am PST
This episode of Small Business Rules talks to the author, an eco-designer, blogger, and green design consultant. As founder of the Inhabitant family of websites, she's helped business people,...
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Insights From The Small Business Administration
April 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast the author, Associate Administrator of Government Contracting and Business Development, Small Business Administration (SBA), discusses prospects for the future, how the SBA is...
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The Small Business Administration ? Here To Help
April 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast the author, Associate Administrator of Government Contracting and Business Development, Small Business Administration (SBA), outlines what the SBA is doing to assist the Small...
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The PTAC?s Role In Government Contracting
April 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast the author explains why small business owners should seek assistance from the PTAC and discusses the differences between the PTAC and the Small Business Development Center.
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Small Biz Newsmakers: Urban Entrepreneurs Find Success
March 27, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Each year the National Urban League releases a report focused on the country's urban and underserved communities. This year's theme is about rebuilding jobs and putting urban America back to work....
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American Business: Trial & Error
February 20, 2011, 12:00am PST
Most entrepreneurs do their best to avoid small business blunders, but not all missteps are bad ones. Sometimes, you can learn valuable lessons. In fact, one business owner and her team are making...
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Be Strategic With Certifications
December 21, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this webcast the author, in the title of "Be Strategic with Certifications" discusses the importance of carefully choosing certifications to match the capabilities of your business.
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Small Business Rules: The GrubHub.Com Rule
December 21, 2010, 12:00am PST
It's easier to make a million dollars than it is to make that first dollar. - The GrubHub.com Rule. After ordering yet another pizza on a late night work shift back in 2004, programmers Mike Evans...
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Your Online Business: Cloud Computing
May 8, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing services were some of the hottest small business tools around until a recent meltdown. Amazon.com's cloud-based services crashed for several days, crippling some sites. The...
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Your Online Business: Website Design
April 3, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The website acts very much like a storefront. One want online customers to click, look around and maybe make a purchase. Building a user-friendly site is not something one should do in a day. The...
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Tech Trends Forecast From CES 2011
February 17, 2011, 12:00am PST
What does new technology really mean for small business? How do one sort out the hype from the must-have? Hear industry thought leaders share their perspectives on how trends like tablet computing...
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Small Biz Tech: Tools for Your Business
January 16, 2011, 12:00am PST
With so many products on display at CES, one may have a hard time figuring which ones may be the perfect fit for the business. The presenter, the editor of smallbiztechnology.com, tells one which...
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Top Five: The Best of CES
January 16, 2011, 12:00am PST
The halls of CES are filled with plenty of new gadgets and tools for small business owners. Here are five of the best that one may want to check out.
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White Papers
Use Equity To Get Aligned With Service Providers
August 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Instead of being paid in cash for services they provided to entrepreneurs, some professionals are sometimes willing to take some of their fees in the form of equity. Lawyers, accountants,...
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White Papers
Alternate Financing Routes
August 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
When David Nadeau and his partner, Rick Edwards, went looking for financing this time last year, they had several goals: to buy out their primary investor and become co-owners of their Portsmouth,...
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White Papers
Manage Inventory And Prevent Theft - Right From Your Desktop
August 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
AIRS is an enterprise retail system that collects and allows users to manage inventory, streamline the supply chain, and analyze sales patterns. The software is database-independent so can be...
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White Papers
How To Become A Household Name
July 8, 2007, 12:00am PDT
As a kid, you may have learned that self-promotion is arrogant and tacky. For entrepreneurs, however, a major part of selling your product or service is selling yourself and your company. This can...
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White Papers
Differentiate And Dominate
August 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Quite often small business owners will ask the author to reveal the most powerful marketing strategy he has seen. He can say without hesitation that the most powerful marketing strategy has little...
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What Becomes A Small Business Brand?
August 9, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Small business owners are often confused about the term brand, and rightly so. Big businesses obsess about this thing called branding, yet the author thinks on the whole it has become a pretty...
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White Papers
Smart Questions For Your Insurance Agent
August 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Are you protected if a catastrophe hits? Quite possibly not. More than half of small businesses don't have business-interruption insurance, a nowadays survey found. Get on the case by asking these...
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White Papers
When Criminals Come Calling
August 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
With less money to devote to prevention, small businesses routinely find themselves on the receiving end of fraud. Over the years, business owners and local business groups have become better at...
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Case Studies
Out To Pasture
August 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Connie and her husband Thomas are emblematic of those 50-something Baby Boomers who are rewriting the rules of retirement by discovering their inner entrepreneur at an age when previous...
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Case Studies
We Rent Dreams
August 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The beauty of a small business is that one can be nimble. A quick glance around Eagle Rider's Los Angeles headquarters soon makes clear what kind of desires they're purveying. There are racks...
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Tools & Templates
Cover Page Worksheet
September 7, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This template will prompt you to assemble all of the information you will need to include on your business plan cover page in one place to insure nothing is left out.
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Tools & Templates
How To Come Up With A Mission Statement
September 7, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A mission statement is your vision for the company. It must capture the essence of your business in one or two sentences, and should contain the purpose of your business as well as to whom your...
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Tools & Templates
Pricing A Service Business Worksheet
September 7, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Pricing a service business is different than pricing a product. You need to consider what your rate is per "Billable hour" - each hour that you dedicate specifically to your client's business....
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White Papers
Getting the Most for Every Dollar - Tools and Strategies for Expense Management at Mid-Size Companies
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
For the sixth consecutive year, American Express collaborated with CFO Research services to identify how finance executives manage spending programs to yield sustained business results. This...
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Non-Profits (And Small Businesses) Should Focus More On Design
October 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
We love great products and services even more when they are designed well. Among the many reasons for our appreciation of good design is that it helps us understand things better. Design can...
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(Re)Think Big: How To Redefine Your Organization's Mission
October 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
People start businesses for lots of reasons, but as the business evolves so, too, may your goals. Are you simply trying to create an incredible product, or are you hoping to effect a larger...
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Are You Leading An Imbalanced Small Business?
June 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In a small business, where the owner usually sells, serves customers and does all the support work, it creates imbalance. You tend to focus more on some and little on others. This paper explains 3...
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The World's Most Unsung Health Insurance Benefit
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
There's a significant health insurance benefit for the self-employed that just doesn't get much attention in the press. But it should. It's the Federal tax provision that allows self employed...
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More Reasons To Pay Attention To Consumer Review Sites
April 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Review sites can be very useful from the consumer's standpoint, because they give valuable input. There's no doubt they are more popular than ever. Taken to extremes, or when inaccurate, online...
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Relax - The New COBRA Rules Do Not Impact Many Small Businesses
April 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
COBRA is an acronym for the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986, which requires that certain employers provide qualifying individuals the right to continue their health...
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White Papers
Entrepreneurship And The Valuation Of Public Companies
March 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper shows some ways that entrepreneurs will be affected if public companies are now going to be worth half of what they were worth in the previous era. The most successful entrepreneurs...
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Tap Into The Wisdom Of Crowds For Business Growth And Saving Money Tips
March 4, 2009, 12:00am PST
When it comes to throwing out creative ideas, more heads really are better than one. Why? You simply get more ideas than one person can come up with. Other people will contribute ideas you'd never...
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The Difference Between A Freelancer And An Entrepreneur
December 16, 2008, 12:00am PST
A freelancer is someone who gets paid for her work. She charges by the hour or perhaps by the project. Freelancers write, design, consult, advise, do taxes and hang wallpaper. Freelancing is the...
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Myths And Realities: Financing Start-Ups
October 24, 2008, 12:00am PDT
One of the most important things you will do as an entrepreneur is to raise the money you need to finance your new business. Unfortunately, there are a lot of myths about financing new businesses....
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For Small Businesses, We Ride It Out
October 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
For many small businesses - the effects of the credit crisis playing out around us day by day, hour by hour, have not changed what we do. Many of us have felt no impact - at least not so far. Oh,...
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Entrepreneurs With Poor Credit Face Crunch
October 2, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Entrepreneurs with poor credit have to pay so much more than entrepreneurs with good credit to borrow money from their peers right now, the former are probably unable to borrow money at rates that...
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None Of Us Is An Island: Why Small Business Owners Like Me Want A Credit Rescue Plan
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Our financial system and our markets and our businesses are interrelated. No man (or woman) is an island. We need the economy as a whole operating well, if we expect our businesses to do well....
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Go Global, But Not Alone
August 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The current downturn in the U.S. has made global ventures increasingly attractive - and worth the learning curve. The good news is that the learning curve can be accelerated. This paper recounts...
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Small Businesses, Tear Down Those Walls
August 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Tear down those walls that keep your employees from working together, from collaborating together, from communicating together. Why and how should you tear those walls down? The answer to WHY: you...
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White Papers
This Blogging Stuff Is Harder Than It Looks
June 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Instead of sitting in your living room and blogging in your jammies, it turns out that you actually have to know stuff, such as copyright law. Yep. And it's not just for quoting news articles. Use...
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High Growth Firms Tend To Be Old Fogies, Not Startups
June 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Economic development organizations, non-profit entrepreneurship programs, venture capitalists and other groups jumped on the bandwagon. Gazelles were in. If you wanted to see jobs, economic growth...
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Whipping The Social Media Beast In 30 Minutes A Day
June 2, 2008, 12:00am PDT
How do you take advantage of social media sites without them eating up your entire day, like the attack of the killer tomatoes? Those social media sites where you can network with other people,...
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As Attention Spans Shorten, So Does Blogging For Some
April 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
First it was blogs. In the world of small business, people started going nuts over blogs a couple of years ago. Business owners and entrepreneurs and those who work in small businesses found the...
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Those Crazy RSS Icons And Why They Matter To Your Business
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
RSS is one of those tools that's phenomenally wonderful for website/blog publishers and readers who are information junkies or looking to stay up to date efficiently. Unfortunately, RSS is saddled...
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White Papers
Have Hackers Turned Your Website Into A Link-Generating Drone?
March 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Hackers have a new shtick: gaming the search engines. And they are using small business websites and personal blogs to do it. There is an alarming trend in which hackers take over small business...
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The One Thing That Could Make The Mobile Web Finally A Reality
June 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
For years now, small business owners have been hearing about and waiting expectantly for the growth of the Mobile Web. It's coming! It's coming! Get ready for it! Uh-huh. Right. The Mobile Web...
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White Papers
Getting the Most for Every Dollar - Tools and Strategies for Expense Management at Mid-Size Companies
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
For the sixth consecutive year, American Express collaborated with CFO Research services to identify how finance executives manage spending programs to yield sustained business results. This...
Provided by American Express
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Tools & Templates
Pricing A Service Business Worksheet
September 7, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Pricing a service business is different than pricing a product. You need to consider what your rate is per "Billable hour" - each hour that you dedicate specifically to your client's business....
Provided by American Express
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Tools & Templates
How To Come Up With A Mission Statement
September 7, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A mission statement is your vision for the company. It must capture the essence of your business in one or two sentences, and should contain the purpose of your business as well as to whom your...
Provided by American Express
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Tools & Templates
Cover Page Worksheet
September 7, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This template will prompt you to assemble all of the information you will need to include on your business plan cover page in one place to insure nothing is left out.
Provided by American Express
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Case Studies
We Rent Dreams
August 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The beauty of a small business is that one can be nimble. A quick glance around Eagle Rider's Los Angeles headquarters soon makes clear what kind of desires they're purveying. There are racks...
Provided by American Express
-
Case Studies
Out To Pasture
August 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Connie and her husband Thomas are emblematic of those 50-something Baby Boomers who are rewriting the rules of retirement by discovering their inner entrepreneur at an age when previous...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
When Criminals Come Calling
August 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
With less money to devote to prevention, small businesses routinely find themselves on the receiving end of fraud. Over the years, business owners and local business groups have become better at...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Smart Questions For Your Insurance Agent
August 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Are you protected if a catastrophe hits? Quite possibly not. More than half of small businesses don't have business-interruption insurance, a nowadays survey found. Get on the case by asking these...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
What Becomes A Small Business Brand?
August 9, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Small business owners are often confused about the term brand, and rightly so. Big businesses obsess about this thing called branding, yet the author thinks on the whole it has become a pretty...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Differentiate And Dominate
August 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Quite often small business owners will ask the author to reveal the most powerful marketing strategy he has seen. He can say without hesitation that the most powerful marketing strategy has little...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
How To Become A Household Name
July 8, 2007, 12:00am PDT
As a kid, you may have learned that self-promotion is arrogant and tacky. For entrepreneurs, however, a major part of selling your product or service is selling yourself and your company. This can...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Manage Inventory And Prevent Theft - Right From Your Desktop
August 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
AIRS is an enterprise retail system that collects and allows users to manage inventory, streamline the supply chain, and analyze sales patterns. The software is database-independent so can be...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Alternate Financing Routes
August 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
When David Nadeau and his partner, Rick Edwards, went looking for financing this time last year, they had several goals: to buy out their primary investor and become co-owners of their Portsmouth,...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Use Equity To Get Aligned With Service Providers
August 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Instead of being paid in cash for services they provided to entrepreneurs, some professionals are sometimes willing to take some of their fees in the form of equity. Lawyers, accountants,...
Provided by American Express
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