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5 Ways To Save Your Business Money Now
Jun 2009
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...
Provided by American Express
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Paying Your (Small Business) Bills
Jun 2009
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...
Provided by American Express
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Where To Put Your Money
Jun 2009
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...
Provided by American Express
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For Smart Executives, Smaller Can Be Better
Jul 2009
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...
Provided by American Express
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Make Purchases Without Cash
Jul 2009
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...
Provided by American Express
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Customers And Suppliers Can Help You Over A Rough Patch
Jul 2009
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...
Provided by American Express
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Delegate Vs. Relegate
Jul 2009
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...
Provided by American Express
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Three Tips For Working With Asset-Based Lenders
Jul 2009
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....
Provided by American Express
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Reality TV For SMBs
Jul 2009
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...
Provided by American Express
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The Key To Small Business Success
Aug 2009
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...
Provided by American Express
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Can Social Networking Really Save A Small Business Money?
Aug 2009
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...
Provided by American Express
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What Is Scenario Planning And Is It Useful For Small Businesses?
Aug 2009
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...
Provided by American Express
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How To Find And Hire A Virtual Assistant For Your Small Business
Aug 2009
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...
Provided by American Express
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Military Veterans Make Good Business Folk
Aug 2009
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...
Provided by American Express
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Credit Lines - A Great Financing Tool If You Can Get It
Aug 2009
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...
Provided by American Express
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Health Care's Drain On Cash Flow
Aug 2009
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...
Provided by American Express
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Scalable Benefits For Growing Businesses
Aug 2009
"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...
Provided by American Express
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How To Tell If You're Getting The Best Bang For Your Marketing Buck
Aug 2009
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,...
Provided by American Express
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Cash For Clunker Businesses
Sep 2009
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...
Provided by American Express
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When To Outsource For Your Small Business
Sep 2009
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...
Provided by American Express
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Ten Ways To Easily Reduce Small Business Energy Bills
Sep 2009
Like clockwork, utility bills drop unwanted news on your desk on a monthly basis. Communications bills, supply bills, and energy bills all amount to a big chunk out of the bottom line of your...
Provided by American Express
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How Strong Is Your Business? Can You Pass The 3 To 6 Test?
Sep 2009
The "3 to 6 test" is simple. Set aside 3-to-6 months' fixed costs as a cash cushion for your business. The "3 to 6 test" is a rule of thumb. If you have that amount set aside, it can liberate you...
Provided by American Express
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How To Avoid Being A Nasty, Clueless, And Idiotic Boss During The Downturn
Jul 2009
Running a small business is tough enough during even the best of times, but when profits and sales are falling and the smell of fear is in the air, being the boss becomes much harder....
Provided by American Express
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Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste
Jun 2009
Despite the steady drumbeat of bad economic news, small businesses have a major opportunity shaping up over the next year or two. They could become big businesses. While there's no way to get rid...
Provided by American Express
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Beware Of Big Company Syndrome
May 2009
Even small businesses are vulnerable to "Big Company Syndrome." What's Big Company Syndrome? It's the innovation malaise often prevalent in large corporations. It goes something like this:...
Provided by American Express
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Is There Such A Thing As "Recession-Proof"?
Apr 2009
The potential collapse of the Big Three - although, really, at this point, it's only two of the Three, General Motors and Chrysler, who are in serious danger of insolvency should the federal...
Provided by American Express
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Will Health Care Reform Crush Local Franchise Owners?
Sep 2009
A local franchise owner is someone who has taken a financial risk, and put his or her own money on the line, {Along with a bank's money} for a shot at the "American Dream." These courageous folks...
Provided by American Express
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Businesses Turn To Mom Blogs To Market Their Wares
Aug 2009
Bigger brands often see the value of engaging bloggers. But for many small businesses working with bloggers is new and unknown. Yet it can be an effective marketing tool. Some cry that blogging is...
Provided by American Express
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From Center Of Your Universe, To Satellite Outposts
Jul 2009
In the past five years, the trend in online marketing has shifted rather dramatically. there's a shift in WHERE your business needs to have a presence online. It used to be that you could focus...
Provided by American Express
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Get Used To Living Smaller
Nov 2008
Most small businesses have yet to see the many problems that will come as weakness in the broader economy starts to ripple through all sectors, but barring an economic miracle we're in for a very...
Provided by American Express
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Customer Case Study: A L Filters
Nov 2009
Companies undergoing rapid expansion can all too soon find their IT infrastructures becoming unwieldy, inadequate and expensive to manage. Switching to virtualization with a consolidated and...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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Solutions Brief: Dell EqualLogic PS Series and Microsoft WS2008 Hyper-V: Enabling The Next Generation Virtualized Data Center
Nov 2009
Server virtualization is one of the most significant technology trends in IT environments today, and a key enabler of the next generation virtualized data center. Server virtualization relies on...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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Webcasts
The Business Benefits of Secure Remote Access
Nov 2009
Join industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from SonicWALL, Inc., as they help you make the right call on telecommuting.
Provided by SonicWALL
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Have You Befriended These 8 Enemies Of Small Business Success?
Oct 2009
This paper explains about 8 enemies of small business success. Later: It never comes. Ever. Your ego just convinces you that it does; Maybe: This word is a total lie; Passion: No, this isn't all...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Business Productivity Online Suite - Highly Secure and Reliable Cloud Services
Nov 2009
Learn about fully hosted productivity tools in the cloud with Microsoft® Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). With real time communication and collaboration tools, including, instant...
Provided by Microsoft
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The Essential Guide: Real-Time High Availability for Exchange - Replicate Exchange Data for Improved Resiliency
Nov 2009
Business email has become so important that most organizations consider achieving the highest possible availability a must. How can you measure—and improve—your email systems' availability and...
Provided by CA XOsoft
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Designing High Availability for Internet Information Services
Nov 2009
End downtime forever! - Organizations today are relying more and more on Web services for the implementation of mission-critical applications. With the advent of Service-Oriented Architectures...
Provided by CA XOsoft
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Windows Phones and Unified Communications
Nov 2009
Are you thinking about unified communications in your business? You need to be. In today's world, two trends are reshaping the way we work: 1) all workers are becoming mobile workers, and 2)...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Staying a step ahead of the hackers: the importance of identifying critical Web application vulnerabilities.
Nov 2009
Security managers worldwide working for midsize or large organizations share a common goal: to better manage the risks associated with their business infrastructure. Web application security plays...
Provided by IBM
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Dell PowerVault DL2100 Powered by CommVault - Spec Sheet
Nov 2009
The industry's only integrated solution for faster disk-based backups and recoveries gets you up and running 4.5 times faster than configuring it yourself.
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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Developing Small Business Landscape
May 2010
Small Businesses face a variety of problems related to marketing, resource, Infrastructure and other related factors which stand as hurdle in their development. These businesses need solution...
Provided by Credent Business Solutions
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History Of Leading The Family Business
Aug 2008
While the author has been strongly involved and identified with the Leading the Family Business (LFB) program since its launch, there is only one person who can claim credit for being the founding...
Provided by IMD
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Online Storage Strategies For The Small Business Market
Nov 2010
Online storage solutions solve this issue by automating backups so that they only need to be set up one time to run on a regular basis, usually in the every hours of the morning, alleviating any...
Provided by BizTechReports
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Secure Online Document Backups: How Small To Mid-Size Businesses Can Centralize Paper And Digital Document Storage Without Sacrificing Security
Apr 2009
In this white paper, one will learn how secure and remote online document backups will protect their important business documents and files, whether from being misplaced or lost to anything from...
Provided by Base K USA
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Guide For Small Business
Mar 2010
Grant resources are available to explore funding opportunities and include a public library access to databases of federal, state and private funds; These grants are available to non-profit...
Provided by Washington State Department of Commerce
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Online Business Continuity Solutions For Small Businesses Comparison Report: A Sampling Of Online Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, And Backup Solutions Designed For The Small Business Community
Sep 2010
In this paper the authors provide Strategies for the Small Business and have assembled a sampling of offerings that have been specifically configured to address the needs of the small business...
Provided by BizTechReports
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Understanding Tax For Small Business
Jul 2009
Like any other overhead, tax is a cost that needs to be managed and controlled by all businesses in as efficient a manner as possible. This is of paramount importance to small and medium sized...
Provided by Irish Taxation Institute
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ERP System Success Assessment In SMEs
Jun 2010
The purpose of this paper is to present a research in progress exploring the issue of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems success assessment in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)....
Provided by University of Agder
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Small Business Data Storage Solutions
Apr 2009
Digital files are multiplying at exponential rates. In the past ten years, many small businesses and creative companies have shifted to relying almost solely on digital files. Companies who rely...
Provided by Synology
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Network-Attched Storage For The Growing Small Business
Feb 2009
Small businesses are grappling with explosive storage growth, thanks to digitized business documents, mushrooming email, Web-enabled applications, legal and regulatory requirements, and increasing...
Provided by Iomega
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Dual-Drive Network Storage Server
Oct 2008
For small offices and businesses up to 20 networked computers, the Central Axis Business Edition storage server provides a data storage and protection solution with simplicity and business...
Provided by Seagate Technology
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How To Meet Your Expanding Small Business Accounting Needs
Sep 2010
As a growing, Canadian-run, small business you need to ensure your operations are running smoothly and you don't have much time to spend re-evaluating your accounting needs. You've been using a...
Provided by Sage Group
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Guide For Small Business In Washington State
Mar 2009
A surprising number of public and private resources are available to Washington's business owners and entrepreneurs. The trick is in knowing where to look for them. To help you find the assistance...
Provided by Green River Community College
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The Primary Determinants Of Small Business Formation
Jan 2008
The close association between entrepreneurship and small business birth has provided no consensus on either their differences or overlap. Because of this, both articles pertaining primarily to...
Provided by University of Central Florida
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A Quick Read On The State Of Small Business And The Small Business Success Index
Mar 2009
Competitiveness in this context is defined as the level of success a small business achieves in conducting the organizational activities critical to its short and long term viability. The more...
Provided by University of Maryland
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Whitepapers
Why Business Intelligence Makes Sense for Midsize Companies
Dec 2010
Find out how to meet the challenges facing your midsize company and benefit from the road map that takes you through the process of deploying a BI solution, enabling you to start small and then...
Provided by SAP
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Whitepapers
Three Truths to Guide SMBs Toward Capitalizing on the Economic Turnaround
Dec 2010
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) around the world are facing a competitive environment more intense than ever. Changes in the economic environment that began in 2008 (and earlier in some...
Provided by SAP
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HR Strategy And Employee Benefits
Aug 2010
The health care reform act, better known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA), enacted a new form of cafeteria plan that is available to small employers starting in...
Provided by Kushner & Company
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Small Business Expenses And Tax Deductions
Jan 2010
Business expenses are the cost of conducting a trade or business. These expenses are common costs of doing business, and are usually tax deductible if your business is for profit. For example,...
Provided by SBA
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Bank Credit, Trade Credit Or No Credit: Evidence From The Surveys Of Small Business Finances
Jun 2010
In this study, the authors use data from the Surveys of Small Business Finances (SSBF) to provide new information about the use of credit by small businesses in the United States. More...
Provided by SBA
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SME Marketing With The Complete New Media Package
Nov 2010
A smaller business can't afford the same kind of marketing as the big companies use. The marketing of big companies focuses on 'Brand Building', but this is too diffused and not effective enough...
Provided by Lead Creation
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Collaborators Or Competitors? Exploring The Relationships Between Community Development
Mar 2009
This study examines the nature of the interaction of banks and community development financial institutions (CDFIs) in small business lending. The authors examine the experience of six different...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
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The Role Of Incubators In Cultivating Small Business
Jan 2009
While many people associate the term incubator with the dot-com era, business incubation programs actually trace their beginnings back to 1959, when the first program opened in Batavia, New York....
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
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Loan Officers And Relationship Lending To SMEs
Jul 2008
The recent literature on SME financing has emphasized the dichotomy between soft information and hard information. Specifically, this literature has identified soft information with "Relationship...
Provided by Indiana University
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Encouraging Entrepreneurship: A Microenterprise Development Policy Agenda
Dec 2008
For more than 20 years, community-based microenterprise programs have been assisting emerging entrepreneurs start and sustain small businesses. In helping these entrepreneurs to start and grow...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
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Proceedings From The Impact Of The Mortgage And Credit Crisis On Asian Small Businesses
Jul 2008
Many small businesses have been adversely affected by deteriorating economic conditions. Asian Pacific Islander (API) small businesses face unique circumstances stemming from their strong reliance...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
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The Small Business Perspective On Health-Care Reform
Jan 2010
California has 6.5 million uninsured adults, 55 percent of whom work for companies that do not provide health insurance. This percentage accounts for 3.5 million individuals. According to a recent...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
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Out-Of-Market Small Business Loans
Feb 2008
Small businesses play a critical role in the U.S. economy, accounting for roughly half of all private employment and more than half of output, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration....
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
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How Will A Credit Crunch Affect Small Business Finance?
Mar 2009
Small businesses may be particularly vulnerable to a credit crunch. Small companies do not have access to the capital markets. Thus, their sources of external financing are much more limited than...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
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Small Business Finance And Personal Assets
Jan 2010
Small business owners have historically relied on personal assets as an important source of support for their enterprises - from the aspiring restaurant owner relying on personal savings to the...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
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Choosing The Type Of Business To Start
Jan 2010
At some point in the life of almost every person, the typical nine-to-five, dead end job becomes tedious and undesirable. The difference between those who continue to be miserable working for...
Provided by QuadWest Associates
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Small Business CRM: 5 Considerations
Nov 2009
Sales managers love the saying, "Nothing happens in America until somebody sells something." Managing the sales process, sales people and customer experience requires patience, discipline, and...
Provided by Focus
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Starting A Small Business? Here's 10 Steps You'll Need
Jan 2010
Starting a business for the sole purpose of making money or avoiding the work force is a bad plan. Unless you're truly in love with the products or services you are creating you will fail. Few...
Provided by QuadWest Associates
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Successful Leadership In A Small Business
Jan 2010
Practicing positive successful leadership in a small business, especially for the founder/owner, takes great skill and talent. In order to know what to do successfully in the start up phase and...
Provided by QuadWest Associates
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Small Business And Leadership
Jan 2010
There are several types of leadership styles. The charismatic leaders exude vision, are willing to take risks to achieve that vision, are sensitive to both environmental constraints and follower...
Provided by QuadWest Associates
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3 Ways Small Business Owners Confuse Their Prospects
Jan 2010
Small business owners are smart, savvy and creative. This is, oftentimes, what causes more confusion with prospects. Let's use an example to make it clearer. Imagine you're at a networking event...
Provided by QuadWest Associates
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Small Business Marketing Tip - Market Your Business Online
Jan 2010
Your small business marketing strategy must have a variety of different angles to allow for the wide diverse population and how people find information these days. As a small business owner,...
Provided by QuadWest Associates
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Export Alabama - Focus On Small Business
Mar 2008
Exports from Alabama to the world have risen steadily in recent years. This tells a very optimistic story about trading relationships between the state manufacturers and service industry with the...
Provided by Alabama Development Office
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Starting A New Business: An Educational Brochure For Alabama Taxpayers
Aug 2009
Contact all necessary agencies that you feel may affect your business or yourself. Do not rely on secondhand information or someone else to contact all the agencies for you. There are forms that...
Provided by Alabama Development Office
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Small Business Guide To Doing Business In Alabama
Apr 2010
There are a number of steps which should be taken before anyone starts a small business in Alabama. Detailed descriptions of all the areas involved in planning a business venture are discussed in...
Provided by Alabama Development Office
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Have You Befriended These 8 Enemies Of Small Business Success?
Oct 2009
This paper explains about 8 enemies of small business success. Later: It never comes. Ever. Your ego just convinces you that it does; Maybe: This word is a total lie; Passion: No, this isn't all...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Business Productivity Online Suite - Highly Secure and Reliable Cloud Services
Nov 2009
Learn about fully hosted productivity tools in the cloud with Microsoft® Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). With real time communication and collaboration tools, including, instant...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
The Essential Guide: Real-Time High Availability for Exchange - Replicate Exchange Data for Improved Resiliency
Nov 2009
Business email has become so important that most organizations consider achieving the highest possible availability a must. How can you measure—and improve—your email systems' availability and...
Provided by CA XOsoft
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White Papers
Designing High Availability for Internet Information Services
Nov 2009
End downtime forever! - Organizations today are relying more and more on Web services for the implementation of mission-critical applications. With the advent of Service-Oriented Architectures...
Provided by CA XOsoft
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White Papers
Windows Phones and Unified Communications
Nov 2009
Are you thinking about unified communications in your business? You need to be. In today's world, two trends are reshaping the way we work: 1) all workers are becoming mobile workers, and 2)...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Staying a step ahead of the hackers: the importance of identifying critical Web application vulnerabilities.
Nov 2009
Security managers worldwide working for midsize or large organizations share a common goal: to better manage the risks associated with their business infrastructure. Web application security plays...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Dell PowerVault DL2100 Powered by CommVault - Spec Sheet
Nov 2009
The industry's only integrated solution for faster disk-based backups and recoveries gets you up and running 4.5 times faster than configuring it yourself.
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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Tools & Templates
A Simpler IT Infrastructure Can Help You Focus on Customers - Windows Server®, Learn More.
Dec 2009
The right server solution should help you save time, reduce costs, and get organized—leaving you more time to focus on the most important part of your business: your customers. Windows Server 2008...
Provided by Microsoft
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Blueprint for Introducing Innovation Into the Wireless Networks We Use Every Day
Oct 2009
Few changes are occurred in the past couple of years in wireless industry: Handsets have become mobile computers running user-contributed applications on (potentially) open operating systems. It...
Provided by Stanford University
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Oblivious Routing for Wireless Mesh Networks
Feb 2008
Wireless mesh networks have attracted increasing attention and deployment as a high-performance and low-cost solution to last-mile broadband Internet access. Traffic routing plays a critical role...
Provided by Vanderbilt University (Owen)
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White Papers
Resource Guide: High Performance Workstations
Dec 2009
High performance workstations are specifically designed to meet the rising challenges of specialized applications for a growing number of industries including engineering, entertainment, finance,...
Provided by Dell
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Whitepapers
Quantifying the benefits of HP Server Automation white paper
Dec 2009
IT organizations can capture the expertise of their best IT staff and leverage this expertise across numerous servers, server types, and data centers. With HP Server Automation, HP customers have...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Dynamic Data Compression in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
Apr 2009
Data compression can save energy and increase network capacity in wireless sensor networks. However, the decision of whether and when to compress data can depend upon platform hardware, topology,...
Provided by University of Southern California (Marshall)
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White Papers
Unified Communications and Your Business: What You Need to Know
Apr 2009
To create a consistent, seamless Unified Communications (UC) experience across your organization, you must first examine your existing infrastructure and business processes to determine what...
Provided by Qwest Communications
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White Papers
Smarter service data protection for SMBs
Jan 2010
As data volumes skyrocket, organizations of all sizes must work harder to keep their critical information safe. For small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), rapid disaster recovery is just as...
Provided by Iron Mountain
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Downloads
Paragon Drive Backup 10.0 Server Trial
Jan 2010
This highly-rated tool set for backup and recovery provides powerful features to effectively protect valuable company data and systems. Experienced Windows users, Boot Camp users, system...
Provided by Paragon Software
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Whitepapers
"Inside the Midmarket: A 2009 Perspective An environment like no other"
Jul 2009
When you're determining IT priorities, it helps to know what businesses like yours are doing. With the "Inside the Midmarket: A 2009 Perspective" trend study results, you'll learn how midmarket...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
10 Steps To An Excellent Small Business Plan
Jan 2010
A small business plan is basically a document that serves as a tool for starting a small business or it can be considered as a guide that helps one to decide on the business objectives and the...
Provided by Hubpages
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White Papers
Five Key Reasons To Write A Business Plan For Your Small Business
Jan 2010
Many small business owners and startup entrepreneurs forego the steps involved for developing the business plan, and even though you may not need one to get your business in gear, there are some...
Provided by Hubpages
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White Papers
Why You Should Develop A Mission Statement: The Importance Of A Mission Statement
Jan 2010
There are small businesses all over the world. A small business is usually one with about 100 employees or less. There are small businesses in all types of trades. Some of these small businesses...
Provided by BusinessKnowledgeSource.com
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White Papers
Avoiding Strategic Errors In Your Small Business Plan
Jan 2010
When it comes to business plans many of us think that is something that just the larger companies should do. But the truth of the matter is that even if you are only running a small business you...
Provided by BusinessKnowledgeSource.com
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White Papers
Building A Business Plan
Jan 2010
Once you have a vision for your small business, it is important to start building your business plan. A business plan is helpful for allowing your business to gain the necessary funding to get...
Provided by BusinessKnowledgeSource.com
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White Papers
The Key Components Of Any Small Business Plan
Jan 2010
If you are going to start up your own small business, you need to have a great small business plan. Small business plans begin with ideas, so make sure that you look at your idea also. This paper...
Provided by BusinessKnowledgeSource.com
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Tailoring A Budget For Your Small Business
Jan 2010
Depending on what type of small business you have will depend on what type of revenue you have coming in. No matter what type of revenue you have coming in you will want to make sure that you have...
Provided by BusinessKnowledgeSource.com
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White Papers
How To Keep Accurate Financial Statements With Your Small Business
Jan 2010
This paper explains how to keep accurate financial statements with your small business. As a small business owner, you have many things that you have to be concerned with every day. The thing is...
Provided by BusinessKnowledgeSource.com
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Essential Social Media Tools For The Small Business
Jan 2010
If you're a small business taking the plunge into the teeming waters of social media, you're going to want to know about the various tools and services that help your brand manage its social media...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Creating Your First Small Business Budget
Jan 2010
Small businesses - the ones that succeed - are borne out of passion for something, whether it be a particular topic area, a particular methodology, or something else. Businesses succeed when...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Six Steps To Audit-Proofing Your Small Business
Jan 2010
You're getting audited. Those words are often enough to deeply scare any small businessperson. Nightmares of hours and hours of digging through receipts and invoices, meetings in which you feel...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Two Key Numbers You Need To Know To Manage Your Small Business
Jan 2010
When it comes to quickly evaluating how the business is doing, there are two numbers to pay attention to above all else. These two numbers tell very quickly how exactly the business is doing and...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
#1 Headache For Small Businesses Right Now? Sales
Jan 2010
Recently, the administration has made a point of ardently encouraging banks to lend more freely to small businesses. This federal prodding makes it seem as though fundraising is the average small...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
A New Type Of Pension Plan That Small Businesses Could Love
Dec 2009
Everybody wants a pension, but nobody wants to pay for it. Old-fashioned pensions, known as defined benefit pension plans, have fallen out of favor as an employee benefit because employers can't...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Small Business Tax Tips
Nov 2009
Tax season doesn't have to be stressful for you and your small business. Why wait until late March to strategize those affordable tax breaks and write-offs when there are money-saving approaches...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
A Hiring Hitch For Small Business
Jan 2010
Even as economists and policy-makers are counting on small companies to help lead the economy out of the recession, business owners seeking temporary workers as the first step in hiring are...
Provided by Bloomberg L.P.
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White Papers
The Easy Way To Build Virtual Trust In Your Small Business
Dec 2009
Virtual trust is the idea that anyone online can establish a trust in a product, service or individual without having any personal relationship or face to face contact. As reports of cyberfraud,...
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4 Simple Social Media Suggestions For Small Businesses In 2010
Jan 2010
2010 is upon us, bringing new opportunities to jump ahead of the competition using social media. The web is evolving rapidly and those small businesses that identify trends first will be able to...
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Online Productivity Tools For The Small Business
Jan 2010
Small business owners may have more of a need than most to be able to access their chosen suite of productivity tools from more than one computer or platform. As a business or startup owner you...
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5 Ways Small Businesses Can Avoid Social Media Panic
Jan 2010
The notion of getting into social media might seem overwhelming for any small business. Spending time upfront before launch to create a plan with goals that includes how to translate that social...
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Online Tax Resources For Small Businesses
Dec 2009
As the end of the year approaches, small business owners should start thinking about one of the less pleasant aspects of entrepreneurship: Filing taxes. Tax Day might not be until April 15, but...
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Document Collaboration Tools For The Small Business
Dec 2009
With cloud computing continuing its reach into areas once dominated by desktop applications, it's a great time to consider how your small business could benefit from online collaboration tools for...
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Business Agility Now! Establishing a Dynamic Business Network through Highly Agile Processes
Dec 2009
Today's business landscape seems to change in the blink of an eye. To be truly agile, your business must be integrated into a reusable IT infrastructure and interconnected across your network....
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