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Small Business Rules: The Extreme Pizza Rule
Jul 2010
"Keep your friends close, and your franchisees closer." - The Extreme Pizza Rule. Todd Parent learned the ins-and-outs of his business before he started his company, even though it meant starting...
Provided by American Express
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Golden Age for Small Business
May 2010
"I think this is the best of all times to be a small business", says Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine. Here, Anderson explains to Seth Godin the various benefits of the current...
Provided by American Express
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Teaming: Be Transparent, Be Open
Apr 2010
Theresa Daytner, CEO of Daytner Construction Group, believes that businesses involved need to be open to all the potential opportunities available to them. During OPEN's Victory in Procurement...
Provided by American Express
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Teaming: Getting Started
Apr 2010
"How do you get in the door to show them what you can do if you haven't done that before? you team" says Theresa Daytner, CEO of Daytner Construction Group. Theresa considers teaming one of the...
Provided by American Express
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Teaming: Picking The Right Partner
Apr 2010
"It's 'teaming' been an excellent way to transition from being primarily a private sector provider into the public sector" states Theresa Daytner, CEO of Daynter Construction Group. Theresa...
Provided by American Express
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TeamingUSA.com: Be Specific
Apr 2010
"The key is to be precise so that you can make an informed decision when you're looking for another teaming partner" says Margaret Shaw, Content Management and Administration, TeamingUSA.com....
Provided by American Express
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TeamingUSA.com: An Overview
Apr 2010
"Why team? Simply because you increase your chance of selling to a government agency" states Margaret Shaw, Content Management and Administration, TeamingUSA.com. Margaret believes that teaming is...
Provided by American Express
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Thrive In Contracting
Apr 2010
Lourdes Martin-Rosa, Government Contracting Advisor at American Express OPEN, has over 10 years of government contracting experience. In this video, she describes a few ways small business owners...
Provided by American Express
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Dynamic Small Business Search
Apr 2010
"The SBA profile page is the same as the Dynamic Small Business Search. It is the most overlooked registration and it is part of the CCR" states Lourdes Martin-Rosa, Government Contracting Advisor...
Provided by American Express
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Prepare Your Business
Apr 2010
Lourdes Martin-Rosa, Government Contracting Advisor at American Express OPEN, knows what it takes to prepare a small business for government sales. During OPEN's Victory in Procurement (VIP)...
Provided by American Express
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Start With Small Contracts
Apr 2010
If one can win and perform on something small then one have past performance and it leads to bigger opportunities believes Julie Weeks, President and CEO of Womenable. During a government...
Provided by American Express
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Small Business Set-Asides
Apr 2010
There are goals for every category of small business states Debra Libow, Office of Government Contracting. During her panel at OPEN's Victory in Procurement event, Debra explains the various...
Provided by American Express
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3 Tips For Contracting Success
Apr 2010
During her speech at OPEN's first-ever proprietary event focused on government contracting, Susan Sobbott, President of American Express OPEN, provides 3 tips to help small business owners grow...
Provided by American Express
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3 Focus Points Of Contracting
Apr 2010
"There are three important things that you need to focus on when selling to the government" states Susan Sobbott, President of American Express OPEN. During her opening speech at OPEN's first-ever...
Provided by American Express
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Green Is Universal: Eco-Friendly Office
Apr 2010
More and more small business owners are investing in cost-effective products as they "green" their companies. Lisa Alexander, the founder and CEO of Green Life, tells what products could best suit...
Provided by American Express
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Small Business Rules: The Good Worldwide Rule
Mar 2010
"Learn quickly." - The Good Worldwide Rule. After founder of INC Magazine Bernie Goldhirsh passed away, his son Ben Goldhirsh had the connection to do almost anything he wanted, and so he created...
Provided by American Express
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Small Business Rules : The Art Lewin Rule
Mar 2010
"Old School has become the new school" - Art Lewin Executive Clothiers Rule. Art Lewin literally had nothing when he came to the U.S. from Chile in 1977. These days he's running Art Lewin and Co....
Provided by American Express
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Ask Norm: On Landing New Accounts
Mar 2010
Columnist Norm Brodsky speaks about how to go after accounts that are hard to get. His advice: try to catch them in social settings such as conferences.
Provided by American Express
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The Upsilon Rule
Mar 2010
"Every rule is breakable" - The Upsilon Rule. Upsilon ventures creates temporary spaces and communities like the pond at Bryant Park, which hosts over 250,000 ice skaters each season. Previously...
Provided by American Express
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American Business: Baked To Perfection
Mar 2010
Department stores wanted one entrepreneur's clothing designs, but he turned them all down. Find out why staying small is sometimes better and more profitable than marketing to the masses.
Provided by American Express
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Find Teaming Resources
Mar 2010
"Subcontracting is probably the best way for small businesses to get their feet wet with government contracting" believes Carey Joan White, University of Houston Procurement Technical Assistance...
Provided by American Express
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Create A Vision
Mar 2010
"To have a powerful vision, you must articulate a clear, compelling focused vision" says Leslie Grossman, co-founder of Women's Leadership Exchange. At the American Express OPEN Women's Business...
Provided by American Express
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The City Winery Rule
Mar 2010
"Dream in Word, but live in Excel" - The City Winery Rule. Michael Dorf has made a career out of turning his passions into successful businesses. From the knitting factory to his downtown winery...
Provided by American Express
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The Green And Greener Rule
Mar 2010
"Date your business before you marry it"- The Green and Greener Rule. Alegre Ramos founded Green and Greener, LA's first Eco-Living Design Center and General Store to make green the easy choice...
Provided by American Express
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Made To Stick: The Curse Of Knowledge
Mar 2010
Dan Heath, co-author of Made to Stick, speaks with Fast Company on how "the more you know about something, the harder it is for you to image what it's like to lack that knowledge". This has...
Provided by American Express
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The Big Buddha Baba Rule
Mar 2010
"Use the power of play to open up new ways." - The Big Buddha Baba Rule. Big Buddha Baba is an experience design company creating playful interactive experience for theme parks, museums, and...
Provided by American Express
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Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream
Feb 2010
"There is no secret recipe" - The Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream Rule. Ben Van Leeuwen combined the nostalgia of the ice cream man with the sophistication of high quality ingredients to create his...
Provided by American Express
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The Parties That Cook Rule
Feb 2010
"If you don't provide great service, somebody else will." - The Parties that Cook Rule. In an episode of Small Business Rules, Gibby Gignilliat says she grew tired of her corporate job she decided...
Provided by American Express
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Made To Stick: Sparking Curiosity
Feb 2010
Dan Heath, co-author of Made to Stick, speaks with Fast Company about how to get one's ideas across through the power of testable credentials.
Provided by American Express
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The Brooklyn Industries Rule
Feb 2010
"Be a bull when everyone else is being a bear."- The Brooklyn Industries Rule. In an episode of Small Business Rules, Lexy Funk says embodies the artistic indie spirit of Brooklyn, and so does her...
Provided by American Express
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The Trunkettes Rule
Feb 2010
"Don't be afraid to ask."- The Trunkettes Rule. Tired of stealing her husband's trunks, Hillary Genga took matters into her own hands creating a problem solving line of swimming trunks for women,...
Provided by American Express
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Strategic Pricing Models
Feb 2010
Anita Campbell, CEO of smallbiztrends.com, explains that small business owners need to be smart and strategic about how they manage the payment process with their customers. Here she discusses how...
Provided by American Express
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The Core Of Resiliency
Feb 2010
Anita Campbell, CEO of smallbiztrends.com, discusses how resilient small businesses weathered difficult times. Here she explores how small business owner's perseverance and commitment to their...
Provided by American Express
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American Business: Wholesale Change
Feb 2010
Faced with plummeting sales, a South Carolina business owner decided the time was right to add a new ingredient to her business plan. She took the time to expand her cookie brand by shifting the...
Provided by American Express
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Newsmakers: Small Business Lending
Feb 2010
President Obama hopes his latest economic proposal will help small business owners get loans and create jobs. He's asking Congress to let community banks use $30 billion in repaid TARP money to...
Provided by American Express
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The Amazing Grass Rule
Feb 2010
"The answer is 'yes' and the question is 'how?'"- The Amazing Grass Rule. In 2002 Brandon Bert and Todd Habermehl ditched their corporate jobs and started a green food supplement company that is...
Provided by American Express
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Better Your Business: Marc Lore And Lawrence Gelburd
Feb 2010
Marc Lore, co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Quidsi, the parent company of Diapers.com, and Lawrence Gelburd, an instructor at The Wharton School, provide some helpful tips on how one can better the...
Provided by American Express
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Better Your Business: Tim Furguson And Jerry Silberman
Jan 2010
Better Your Business: Tim Ferguson & Jerry Silberman; Tim Ferguson, founder, chairman and managing partner of Next Street, a merchant bank, and Jerry Silberman, the founder and CEO of Corporate...
Provided by American Express
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Ask A Question. Find An Answer.
Jan 2010
As small businesses are busy reinventing the economy, small business owners have a lot of questions. And where better to find answers than from other business owners? That's why American Express...
Provided by American Express
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'The Customer's Always Right, Even When He's Wrong' - The Celebrity Helicopters Rule
Jan 2010
Robin Petgrave is not your typical suit-wearing CEO and his business model produces as much goodwill as a profit. In an episode of Small Business Rules, she explains how Celebrity Helicopters...
Provided by American Express
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Entrepreneurs Must Generate A Constant Flow Of New Leads To Succeed
Mar 2010
There are many ways that entrepreneurs and small business owners can generate new leads for their business. But it is vital, that it be a consistent and constant activity. You need that type of...
Provided by AusBusiness Review
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Build Your Bottom Line, On Line!
Oct 2009
Many small businesses have website that sit online and do little to help them. There are a lot of simple changes that can turn your website from a simple brochure to an interactive part of your...
Provided by AusBusiness Review
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Smart Ideas To Solve Your Businesses Problems And Beat The Economic Slow Down
Jun 2010
Economic upheaval has pulled small businesses into troubled waters. With a steep drop in consumer buying power at one end and mortgages, business loans, inflation, credit card debts, high...
Provided by AusBusiness Review
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Business Ethics For SMEs
Jan 2010
Few directors of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) will deny the importance of good, trusting relationships with customers, employees, suppliers and the community. The success of their...
Provided by ibe
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Bank Size, Lending Technologies, And small Business Finance
Sep 2010
Under the current paradigm in small business lending research, large banks tend to specialize in lending to relatively large, informationally transparent firms using "Hard" information, while...
Provided by The University of South Carolina
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Small Business In Focus: Finance
Jul 2009
The funding markets for small firms in the United States consist of multitudes of markets of varying sizes, scattered in widely dispersed geographic areas with various numbers of borrowers and...
Provided by SBA
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Small Business Critical Success/Failure Factors In Developing Economies: Some Evidences From Botswana
Jan 2010
Although the discovery of diamond has propelled Botswana from one of the poorest countries in 1966 to its current economic status as a middle-income country, the country still faces the problems...
Provided by Asian Network for Scientific Information
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Unsecured Debt, Consumer Bankruptcy, And Small Business
Feb 2008
In this paper the authors develop a quantitative model of entrepreneurial activity (risk-taking) and consumer bankruptcy choices and use the model to study the effects of bankruptcy regulations on...
Provided by Bank of Canada
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Small Business Access To Credit: Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow
Oct 2008
Small business access to credit has been turned upside down in the United States over the last 30 years. It has moved from a difficult problem for small business owners and managers as a group to...
Provided by Entreprenorskaps Forum
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Sizing Up Job Creation: Are Small Businesses Truly The Engine Of Job Growth? It Depends On How You Look At It
Sep 2010
As the nation struggles to recover from the Great Recession, many policymakers view small businesses as the best hope for increased hiring and renewed prosperity. Again and again, in speeches and...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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The Credit Process: A Guide For Small Business Owners
Jan 2010
Some say owning a home is the American dream. Millions of small business owners will argue, however, that owning one's own business is really the American dream. But while it offers rewards,...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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A Comparison Of Small-Business Financing Issues In Small-Community, Regional Centres In Canada And New Zealand
Jul 2008
This paper empirically tests, examines, and compares, the financing issues of small businesses operating outside major population centers in two regions - New Zealand (Canterbury and South...
Provided by University of Ballarat
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Inside Or Outside The IP System? Business Creation In Academia
Feb 2009
Research and public policy on academic entrepreneurship is largely based on the assumption that the entrepreneurial activity of academics is represented by efforts of faculty to commercialize...
Provided by Case Western Reserve University
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The Quantity And Character Of Out-Of-Market Small Business Lending
Mar 2008
Small businesses play an important role in the U.S. economy, accounting for roughly half of all private employment and more than half of output. These small businesses need financing in order to...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
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Small Business Credit Scoring: Evidence From Japan
Jun 2010
This paper studies the Japanese credit scoring market using data on 2,000 SMEs and a small business credit scoring model widely used in the market. After constructing a model for determining a...
Provided by Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)
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Perspectives On An Individual Mandate
Oct 2008
Reforming America's costly, inefficient and often low-quality healthcare sector is a huge undertaking. Anyone considering proposals that would require people to purchase health insurance-a...
Provided by Cato Institute
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Opening The World Of Export Opportunity To U.S. Small Businesses
Jun 2008
Globalization is a fact of life in 21st century America, and America's small businesses should be allowed to take full advantage of its opportunities. Since 1990, the share of U.S. GDP that...
Provided by Cato Institute
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Taxes And Small Business Job Creation
Feb 2010
Numerous provisions affect the tax climate for small businesses, including payroll taxes, capital gains taxes, and the treatment of capital investment. But the author focuses on marginal income...
Provided by Cato Institute
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The Large Stake Of U.S. Small Business In An Expanding Global Economy
Jun 2007
America's growing engagement in the global economy is not just a story of the Fortune 500. Increasingly, small and medium sized U.S. companies are entering global markets not only to sell but also...
Provided by Cato Institute
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FDIC Insurance Coverage: Six Tips Small Business Owners Need To Know
Jan 2010
Stress on the U.S. economy is affecting the nation's 26,000 small businesses, creating the toughest operating environment in decades. In order to survive and compete, small business owners need to...
Provided by American Bankers Association
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Ten Tips For Small Business Owners During Tough Financial Times
Jan 2010
As the US economy slows small business owners are facing tough financial times, many for the first time. Financial problems are difficult; they consume time and valuable business resources, but...
Provided by American Bankers Association
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How To Make Your Small Business A Success
Jun 2009
The most important thing a small business owner can to for their business is develop an amazing website. The biggest job they will have is to get their traffic up and keep customers and visitors...
Provided by AusBusiness Review
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Tips For Hiring An Excellent Executive Business Coach For Your Small Business
Jun 2010
Executive business coaching is a business that is becoming very popular throughout the US, with more than 10000 coaches offering their services. Although business coaching adds a lot of value to...
Provided by www.Bestmanagementarticles.com
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Why Starting An Ecommerce Business Is Smarter Than Ever
Apr 2010
According to U.S. Government reports ecommerce continues to improve dramatically, "Total e-commerce sales for 2006 were estimated at $108.7 billion, an increase of 23.5 percent (plus or minus...
Provided by www.Bestmanagementarticles.com
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Free Grants For Small Business - Availing More Funds For Your Business
Jul 2010
If one is looking for free grants for small business to get additional funding to the business's capital, one can explore the possibility of getting financial help from the government. In fact, a...
Provided by www.Bestmanagementarticles.com
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Small Business Coach Vs Consultant
Jul 2010
Everyone needs guidance and help in their personal and professional lives. Whether it is to improve relationships or to expand business, help can be essential. Responsible coaches are can be...
Provided by www.Bestmanagementarticles.com
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Have You Used A Checklist To Ensure That Your Small Business Is An Effective Organization?
Jul 2010
A small business is in an ideal position to nail its colors to the mast and set out to become and remain an effective organization. The reward is potentially huge. The effective organization...
Provided by www.Bestmanagementarticles.com
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How To Choose A Small Business Marketing Consultant
Aug 2010
As an entrepreneur, there will likely come a time that one feel the need to hire a small business marketing consultant to help with marketing and growing the business. There are many reputable...
Provided by www.Bestmanagementarticles.com
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How Small Business Owners Can Go Green And Save Green
Aug 2010
It's all the rage to talk about green cities, green businesses, and green policies. It makes sense in the big picture to take care of the planet we're on. But what does "Going green" really mean...
Provided by www.Bestmanagementarticles.com
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Small Business Management Is All about Focus And Execution
Sep 2010
Focus and Execute! These two little words should be every small business owner's daily mantra. Surviving in today's economic environment and making it past your first business cycle is difficult...
Provided by www.Bestmanagementarticles.com
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Second Installment: Technology Trend And Small Business
Jun 2007
The last decade has seen substantial growth in the small and personal business sector of the U.S. economy, and technology has been a major contributor to this trend. The growing digital...
Provided by Institute for the Future
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Small Business Survival In These Troubling Times
Oct 2008
Many small business owners may soon find themselves in Chatel's situation, with rising costs and stagnant sales in a sour economy. Recent surveys of economic trends by the National Federation of...
Provided by Halifax Community College
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Sales Training For Small And Mid-Sized Businesses In A Down-Trending Economy
Jun 2009
There's little debate that companies should invest in their people by offering job training and other educational opportunities. But such things are usually viewed as expenses rather than...
Provided by Accelerated Training Solutions
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Small Business Customer Relationship Management Web-Based Solutions
Jan 2010
Solutions for a small business customer relationship management system need to be different than for a SME (small or medium enterprise) or SMB (small or medium business). A SSB owner (small small...
Provided by CRM-Software-Guide.com
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Top 7 CRM Software Mistakes To Avoid - The Pitfalls Of CRM Best Practices
Jan 2010
Companies wanting to use a CRM software solution for retaining, servicing and recruiting customers need to know what CRM software mistakes to avoid. Too often, companies buy software that's not...
Provided by CRM-Software-Guide.com
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How CRM Software Works - Creating Customer Satisfaction With A Click
Jan 2010
When people ask, "What is CRM?" the literal answer is, "Customer Relationship Management," but that doesn't really convey much in terms of what all CRM does for a business. This CRM definition is...
Provided by CRM-Software-Guide.com
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The History Of CRM - Evolving Beyond The Customer Database
Jan 2010
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is one of those magnificent concepts that swept the business world in the 1990's with the promise of forever changing the way businesses small and large...
Provided by CRM-Software-Guide.com
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Top 7 Benefits Of CRM Software - Towards A More Efficient Way To Define The Company-Client Relationship
Jan 2010
The standard CRM definition that includes better serving existing customers and developing services for new ones can also include CRM as a business practice that combines software solutions with...
Provided by CRM-Software-Guide.com
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Application Study Of E-commerce Model On Chinese SMEs
Jul 2009
Chinese current economic restructuring and rapid development provide a good opportunity for SMEs. Evolution of information technology in the last decade promotes Chinese SMEs adapt to various...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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The Missing Link Between Financial Constraints And Productivity
Apr 2009
The global financial crisis has reopened the debate on the potential spillover effects from the financial sector to the real economy. This paper adds to that debate by providing new evidence on...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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Strategic Pricing Models
Feb 2010
Anita Campbell, CEO of smallbiztrends.com, explains that small business owners need to be smart and strategic about how they manage the payment process with their customers. Here she discusses how...
Provided by American Express
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The Core Of Resiliency
Feb 2010
Anita Campbell, CEO of smallbiztrends.com, discusses how resilient small businesses weathered difficult times. Here she explores how small business owner's perseverance and commitment to their...
Provided by American Express
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American Business: Wholesale Change
Feb 2010
Faced with plummeting sales, a South Carolina business owner decided the time was right to add a new ingredient to her business plan. She took the time to expand her cookie brand by shifting the...
Provided by American Express
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Newsmakers: Small Business Lending
Feb 2010
President Obama hopes his latest economic proposal will help small business owners get loans and create jobs. He's asking Congress to let community banks use $30 billion in repaid TARP money to...
Provided by American Express
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The Amazing Grass Rule
Feb 2010
"The answer is 'yes' and the question is 'how?'"- The Amazing Grass Rule. In 2002 Brandon Bert and Todd Habermehl ditched their corporate jobs and started a green food supplement company that is...
Provided by American Express
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Better Your Business: Marc Lore And Lawrence Gelburd
Feb 2010
Marc Lore, co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Quidsi, the parent company of Diapers.com, and Lawrence Gelburd, an instructor at The Wharton School, provide some helpful tips on how one can better the...
Provided by American Express
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Better Your Business: Tim Furguson And Jerry Silberman
Jan 2010
Better Your Business: Tim Ferguson & Jerry Silberman; Tim Ferguson, founder, chairman and managing partner of Next Street, a merchant bank, and Jerry Silberman, the founder and CEO of Corporate...
Provided by American Express
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Ask A Question. Find An Answer.
Jan 2010
As small businesses are busy reinventing the economy, small business owners have a lot of questions. And where better to find answers than from other business owners? That's why American Express...
Provided by American Express
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'The Customer's Always Right, Even When He's Wrong' - The Celebrity Helicopters Rule
Jan 2010
Robin Petgrave is not your typical suit-wearing CEO and his business model produces as much goodwill as a profit. In an episode of Small Business Rules, she explains how Celebrity Helicopters...
Provided by American Express
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Charting The Waters
May 2010
Before setting out into the great sea, it is wise to chart the waters. What's the destination? Where are the currents? Where are the shoals? What's the fastest route? How's the weather? There are...
Provided by Norreys BizWorks
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8 Ways CRM Can Improve Your Small Or Medium Business
Feb 2010
In more than thirty years of years working in sales and sales consulting the author have been exposed to the broad challenges that all sales organizations face. Successful sales teams have always...
Provided by simple.sales.strategy
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The Power Of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) For Small Business
Mar 2010
This paper explains what a CRM system is and some of the many uses for both small businesses as well as larger ones. While simply having and utilizing a CRM system can instantly increase marketing...
Provided by Small Business Marketing Blog
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DAI: Redbook: Experience Java EE!
Jul 2010
"Beginning Java developers will find valuable information in this e-book from IBM® Redbooks: "Experience Java EE! Using WebSphere® Application Server Community Edition 2.1." This essential...
Provided by IBM
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Collab UCC: Find, reach and collaborate with IBM Unified Communications and Collaboration solutions
Aug 2010
Enterprises now know they can drive faster, better decisions and cut costs with a unified communications infrastructure. This brochure shows how IBM® Unified Communications and Collaboration...
Provided by IBM
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Operation Employee Loyalty
Sep 2007
Employees of small businesses are often asked to go way beyond the call of duty, most often without the benefit of a large paycheck. Fortunately, there are many low-cost ways small business owners...
Provided by American Management Association
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Time For An A/P Makeover? SMBs Now Find Solutions On-Demand
Nov 2008
Constricted by a tight economy that now threatens to get tighter, you may be feeling the pressure to reduce costs and streamline operations. One area that is primed for new efficiency gains is...
Provided by Anybill.com
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Message To Small Business Owners: Don't Neglect Personal Finances
Aug 2008
Successful small business owners tend to be smart, hard-working, tenacious, and highly focused. They have to be. According to a Dun & Bradstreet study, businesses with fewer than 20 employees have...
Provided by American Management Association
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How To Overcome Start-Up Fears
Jan 2010
Here's a question to consider if one is contemplating starting a business. What would be worse: never leaping into an idea one is passionate about because one is afraid to fail, or leaping into...
Provided by American Management Association
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Why Investments In High Growth Companies Are Getting Smaller
Aug 2010
Since the Great Recession began, venture capitalists and angel groups have been making smaller investments in their portfolio companies. From 2007 through the first quarter of 2010, the size of...
Provided by American Express
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Small Business R&D
Jun 2010
Few people are aware of how much money and effort small businesses invest in innovative activity. Because Apple's efforts to create the latest i-device or Merck's investment in drug development...
Provided by American Express
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Does Inferior Financing Hold Back Women-Owned Businesses?
Apr 2010
Much academic research shows that, on average, businesses owned by women perform worse than those owned by men. But that's just an observation. The really important question is why? One common...
Provided by American Express
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Asian Inventors Survived The Downturn Better Than Others
Apr 2010
In 2009, the poor economy took its toll on inventive activity. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) reported a 4.5 percent decline in patent filings. But this decline was not even...
Provided by American Express
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Can Entrepreneurs Be Totally Honest?
Feb 2010
Professors Amar Bhide of Columbia University and Howard Stevenson of Harvard Business School coined this term to refer to the need for entrepreneurs to convince different stakeholders - like...
Provided by American Express
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Is Small Business Employment More Resilient To Economic Shifts?
Feb 2010
We're closing in on two years since the beginning of the worst recession in a generation. Since some experts are saying that the economy is growing again, now might be a good time to look back and...
Provided by American Express
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Is Microcredit The Right Way To Help The Poor?
Mar 2010
Among social entrepreneurs, there is a widespread belief that making micro loans to entrepreneurs is the "Right" answer to get people in developing countries out of poverty. A recent study by...
Provided by American Express
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The Importance Of Contract Workers
Dec 2009
Much of the attention paid to contract workers has tended to focus on their use by large companies. However, in recent years, small business owners have dramatically increased their use of...
Provided by American Express
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Is It Getting Easier For Small Businesses To Borrow?
Oct 2009
A smaller share of banks is tightening lending standards than were doing so in the fourth quarter of 2008. And every quarter since then has shown a declining share of banks tightening standards....
Provided by American Express
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Are Women Less Interested In Entrepreneurship Than Men?
Oct 2009
There's a tendency for policy makers and the media to argue that entrepreneurship is growing among women. In fact, many publications present data that compares the numbers of women business owners...
Provided by American Express
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Turning Your Business Dreams Into Reality - Managing The Critic
Nov 2008
Whether you're a solo entrepreneur, a small business owner, or a corporate executive, one of the things that can drive you absolutely nuts is trying to figure out how to silence the inner critic...
Provided by American Express
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10 Pieces Of Advice From Dancing With The Stars For Budding Entrepreneurs
Jun 2010
As a small business expert helping entrepreneurial women start businesses, the author found Season 10 to be both personally inspiring and professionally helpful. This season is a great example of...
Provided by American Express
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How To Put The Life Back Into Your Company
Jul 2010
After the past two years of the recession - watching expenses like a hawk and keeping a close eye on receivables - it wouldn't be surprising if you ended up with a bunker mentality. Maybe you...
Provided by American Express
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What Street Vendors Can Teach Us About Bootstrapping And Entrepreneurship
May 2010
Some people are born wealthy enough to take the massive risk which funding a new business entails. Others get seed money from brilliant pitches, luck or connections. And then, there's the rest of...
Provided by American Express
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4 Fatal Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Taking On A Partner - And What You Should Do Instead
May 2010
At first glance, taking on a partner seems like a great idea. You'll be combining forces with a colleague who probably has complementary strengths and can help with the tough decisions. Sure,...
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Save Big: Relocate To A Small-Biz-Friendly State
Mar 2010
A great idea, a solid business plan, and some investment dollars are a large part of the starting a business process - but a good location can be the critical and strategic factor that elevates...
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The Challenges Of Sudden Wealth Syndrome
Jan 2010
If you want to sell your business, despite the down market, by all means go ahead. But be prepared. For many small business owners, there's an unexpected - and unwelcome - outcome to the sale of...
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Negotiating Your Way To Savings On Rent
Jan 2010
Rent is just the starting point. In fact, there are a host of other concessions you should ask for. For example, you most likely will be able to have renovations done according to your...
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Building A Circle Of Competence
Dec 2009
To grow and prosper your small business a network of core advisors is a valuable tool. Who you know and whom you surround yourself with are critical in building that "Circle of competence." For...
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Want Quick Success? Ride A Giant's Coattails
Jul 2009
The author has written before about the great opportunities for small software companies making applications for the iPhone. The success stories are many but there's one, simple lesson to take...
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It's Getting Easier To Find A Few Good Mentors
Jul 2009
The first question an entrepreneur usually has is: Where can I get start-up funds? The second might be: Who can help me with the process? There are a few organizations that can help.. First Growth...
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Getting Beyond The Fear To The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of
Jun 2009
Deciding to become a small business owner takes courage. Courage to move past the fear. Courage to reach for something greater, beyond the reach of fear. Courage is not the absence of fear, but...
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