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    Factoring Can Offer A Short-Term Financing Alternative, But Watch The Fees

    June 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Factoring is one option to consider when searching for short-term financing alternatives for your small business. As an asset-based financing arrangement, factoring allows you to sell your...

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    Merchant Cash Advances Can Ease The Crunch But Are Costly And Can Be Risky

    June 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Merchant cash advances - also known as business cash advances, and credit-card or charge-card receivables factoring - offer one more financing alternative for small-business owners seeking...

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    5 Ways To Save Your Business Money Now

    June 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    If sales are down and cash flow is tight, small business owners can find ways to reduce expenses and save money. This paper shows five ways you can get started. You can conserve cash yet obtain...

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    Tax Free Employee Benefits

    June 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    There exists a constant power struggle between employers (wanting the best bang for their employee-related expenditures) and employees (wanting the best remuneration possible for their blood,...

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    Paying Your (Small Business) Bills

    June 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Don't let the vendor be the one to notice you haven't paid your bills. Communicate early and often to keep your business in good standing. Reevaluate your business. Sure, there's a credit crunch...

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    Where To Put Your Money

    June 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    The problem is that small business owners are used to calling all the shots and feeling like they are the best at whatever it is they do - a great entrepreneurial mindset, but a lousy one for...

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    How To Preserve Cash For Your Business

    June 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    If you're running a small business today and aren't thinking about how to tighten your belt, you are surely in rarefied company. But if you're like the rest of us, you're scrambling to cover...

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    Learning To Cut To Win

    June 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    If only everyone had cut out all the excessive crap back in 2006 when it might have mattered. Since most small businesses didn't, many have streamlined and are quickly learning how to tighten...

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    The Straight Skinny On When To Offer Early Payment

    July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Some businesses try to encourage early payments from customers by offering what are known as trade terms. Typical trade terms might be 1/10/30. Those terms mean that the buyer gets a 1% discount...

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    Free Stuff Can Have A Big Payoff

    July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Everyone loves getting free stuff. But what businesses have to figure out is whether there's a paying to giving things away. This paper mentions three benefits and explains these benefits that...

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    An Inside Track To A Big Sale

    July 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Find someone who can materially benefit from owning your company. Sounds obvious, right? It's surprising how many people think that just because someone has money that they are automatically a...

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    8 Ways To Minimize Costs And Maximize ROI On Employee Travel

    July 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Whether you have a sales force of two that only does the occasional overnight, or you maintain an army of road warriors and have your own travel coordination department, these 8 tips given in this...

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    Crisis Management: Folding Or Plotting

    July 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Sink or swim. Stick it out or fold up the tent. If only keeping your clients and customers talking about you was as easy as the silly (yet effective) Snickers Snacklish campaign. There are two...

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    For Smart Executives, Smaller Can Be Better

    July 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Big banks are stumbling, big companies are struggling, and big government is having plenty of its own problems. All in all, it looks like a better time for talent to start landing in small...

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    Make Purchases Without Cash

    July 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    In a tough economy, more business owners are conserving cash by bartering for the stuff they need. Even in modern times, bartering remains a practical choice for small businesses. It's a cash...

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    Customers And Suppliers Can Help You Over A Rough Patch

    July 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    One of the most overlooked sources of short-term funds for a small business continues to be its network of customers and suppliers, and it's worth thinking about how to manage those relationships...

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    Delegate Vs. Relegate

    July 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    There's a little voice inside every entrepreneur telling them they have to do everything themselves and that no one else can be trusted with their business. While many small businesses start with...

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    Building Some Protection Against A Down Economy

    July 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Today, business owners find themselves pressed to keep up with uncertain economic conditions. But even in an economic downturn there are opportunities to be had - if you are prepared to take...

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    Understanding Your Business Credit Report

    July 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Like your personal credit history, your company's credit rating is determined by credit reporting agencies - independent companies that assess your credit "Score" based on factors such as payment...

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    How To Fire A Customer

    July 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    If you've done customer profitability analysis, you've probably identified who are your best customers - as well as who are your worst. Those customers who place only small or infrequent orders,...

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    The Delicate Balance Between Account Payables And Receivables

    July 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    It's second nature for any business owner to keep an eye on sales, repeat business, and profits. But as critical as these factors are, it's equally important to monitor the delicate balance...

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    Time To Upgrade For The Upturn?

    July 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    With the economic crisis starting to show signs of coming to an end, firms have to think about preparing to handle the good times after two years of trying to run lean and mean. Trying to predict...

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    Three Tips For Working With Asset-Based Lenders

    July 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    With bank loans harder to come by, more small companies are turning to asset-based lending. When credit was flowing more freely, many small businesses gravitated away from collateralized loans....

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    Core Competencies And Saving Money

    July 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    What's the core competency of your business? What do you do that sets you apart from your competitors? Perhaps it's customer service. Maybe it's an excellent product. It might be your personal...

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    When And How To Offer Discounts For Early Payment

    July 31, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Offering discounts for cash, upfront and early payment can be an integral part of a comprehensive business management strategy, not just the domain of the accounts receivable department. Bring up...

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    Reality TV For SMBs

    July 31, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Just as reality TV wants as many eyeballs watching as possible, a company wants a surplus of clients. Through a series of experimental executive and managerial training sessions, a company's...

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    The Key To Small Business Success

    August 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    For most entrepreneurs, the single biggest business challenge is not finding a promising opportunity to go after. It is eliminating the dozens of promising opportunities you could go after and...

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    Can Social Networking Really Save A Small Business Money?

    August 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    If you want to actually make social networking cost effective for your small brick-and-mortar business, this paper shows several ways to do it. First of all, don't duplicate effort. Many...

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    What Is Scenario Planning And Is It Useful For Small Businesses?

    August 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Scenario planning is a forecasting tool that helps managers and organizations better understand the trends driving the future competitive environment. The first step in scenario planning is...

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    Five Ways To Get Paid By Small Business Customers

    August 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    When it comes to getting paid, all customers are not created equal. It pays to focus on the high risk customers in your credit policies and in your collections process. That includes when you have...

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    How To Set Priorities

    August 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    A small company simply doesn't have the resources to compete with bigger, richer companies if it's trying to be all things to all people. While trying to do one thing extremely well, however, you...

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    How To Find And Hire A Virtual Assistant For Your Small Business

    August 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Good tasks to outsource to a VA are ones where the procedure is relatively simple, there aren't a lot of decision points (if any) in the workflow, and is a repetitive process. Before looking for a...

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    Military Veterans Make Good Business Folk

    August 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Small businesses looking to hire don't have to look only to Harvard and Yale graduates. Ranks of military alumni with real world work experience on top of college degrees can also run a company...

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    Credit Lines - A Great Financing Tool If You Can Get It

    August 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    A bank line of credit can be hard to come by these days, especially for small companies. So what's it take to get one? Stellar credit and cash flow that can more than cover the fixed charges...

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    Health Care's Drain On Cash Flow

    August 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    It's no secret that health insurance is a huge burden on companies' balance sheets. When General Motors revealed in 2005 that it would take its largest quarterly hit in a decade due to a $1.1...

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    Scalable Benefits For Growing Businesses

    August 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    "When you talk about saving one and a half cents on every dollar, it becomes almost irresponsible not to take advantage of that offer. Every little bit counts, and as your business grows, those...

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    How To Tell If You're Getting The Best Bang For Your Marketing Buck

    August 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Pretty much every small business needs to invest in marketing. But in this economy, when budgets are tight and spending is scrutinized, it's often tempting to gut the marketing budget. After all,...

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    Cash For Clunker Businesses

    September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Like cars, many small businesses out there are clunkers - cash guzzling, severely damaged by the recession. Now, the government is looking to bail out these business owners, as it did for car...

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    How To Use Vendor-Managed Inventory Programs

    September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    A well-run Vendor-Managed Inventory (VMI) program could allow your business to speed up its cash flow by more closely matching your cash outlay for inventory with your cash inflows from sales and...

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    When To Outsource For Your Small Business

    September 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    As a crucial growth step in any business - and in varying degrees throughout the business development process - outsourcing becomes a necessity. The big bucks are made not on one person's efforts...

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