Are You Using the Bad Economy To Get Better?

Everything seems so bleak for small businesses right now, from mounting bankruptcies and layoffs to squeezed credit ... write today. Translation: Companies are somehow managing to do a little more with less. Assuming ... . Small businesses by nature are nimble and can find creative ways to eke more out of their people [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 05:31:12

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Are You Using the Bad Economy To Get Better?

Everything seems so bleak for small businesses right now, from mounting bankruptcies and layoffs to squeezed credit ... write today. Translation: Companies are somehow managing to do a little more with less. Assuming ... . Small businesses by nature are nimble and can find creative ways to eke more out of their people [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 16:57:00

Attracted To Idea Of Being The Boss

Boston.com: When Brooktrout Technology handed engineering manager Eric Stutman a pink slip in November 2006 during its second wave of layoffs, ... and work for themselves. If history offers any indication, the nation’s small business community could ... a business after unexpectedly finding themselves jobless, small business organizations and [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 14:07:58

Best Small Business Books

Welcome to the first annual list of Best Small Business Books, here at Small Business Trends.  The year 2008 was a banner year for business books, and we had a lot to choose from.  So making choices was very hard.  Each book on this list was chosen because it was fresh and remarkable in some way [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 13:50:44

Small Business Thrives on Old Fashioned Values

Outside my window a guy is hacking away at a stump with all manner of hand and electric powered tools. He’s been at it for over two hours ... because he’s a professional stump remover. It’s what he does. He’s not alone. Small businesses ... is proof that old fashioned values will help small businesses through these tough economic times. Divine [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 20:58:22

UK recession official as small firms confront employment issues

small businesses concerned about redundancies Two quarters of negative growth with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) falling by 1 ... more opportunities for small businesses to bid for public contracts; and investing in training apprentices ... the current crisis is over. And for many small businesses employment issues now seem to be top [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 14:42:32

It’s Not Business-As-Usual These Days: Some Tips for Small Business

We’ve all heard the stats. Businesses who continue marketing during down economic times emerge stronger on the other end than those who do not. A recent article in the Harvard Business Review by John Quelch included this: It is well ... . So what’s a small business to do? We have a few tips: Know Your Customer There are too many channels [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 04:45:26

How the Banks Screw Small Business with a Smile!

hypermania2080200054.jpg ‘Darling Brown’ - I love calling them that - are telling us everyday how much they are working to help small business to ... business - free trial and 100+ free business ideas. Share This ... business people in this country, did anything only remotely similar, we would be in jail - we won’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 11:45:34

A quick and dirty look at some business bills this session

The 2009 Legislative Session is barely two weeks old but there has been a host of legislation already introduced that could affect the small ... businesses SB 5050 -- would increase the small business B&O tax credit HB 1442 -- would exempt ... business community if enacted into law. The Tacoma Business Examiner provides a good overview [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 17:52:04

Local TV and small business video ads

While the internet yellow pages and city guides are selling advertorial video for small businesses, ... advertising business in total dollars across any medium. Now, wouldn’t that be interesting? ... has teamed with SpotMixer to give small businesses the ability to churn out their own videos [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 19:46:52

Juanita Lunchbucket blues, part deux

Francisco Goya, Execution of the Rebels - How much can we take?For those that are going through lay-offs, job cutbacks, you have a friend ... .  Not just me, the entire staff except for the the owners (this was a small business).  I was working PT, while ... at this small business and making minimum wage salary plus commission.  But in order to make [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 21:13:07

Martin Brossman to Present at January 2009 Final Friday Forum

Dancing Elephants Achievement Group, dedicated to the education of ethical salespeople, welcomes Martin Brossman of CoachingSupport ... of YOU and Your Business, On and Off the Web”. This is relevant to individuals with a small business ... organizing and operating small firms and a personal consulting business. At IBM he received the “IBM Means [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 11:14:53

UK/Ireland Small Business News Round-up - 2009/01/23

Here is this week’s news round-up for home business, micro business, sole-traders, freelancers, self-employed and any one who is interested in small business news from the United Kingdom ... up to two years in prison or a large fine. Lift employment burdens on small businesses now, says business [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 12:28:45

Small Business Feels Wall Street?s Pain; At Least Strip Clubs are Okay

Some small businesses are learning very quickly just how dangerous it is to attach their businesses to a single industry or sector ... companies learn their lesson about serving only one kind of business? Or as a small company ... and steak dinners to the fanciest technology in their offices to an endless stream of consultants [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 09:53:00

Introducing Becky McCray from Small Biz Survival

Becky McCray - rural small business entrepreneur ... management. In addition to being a well known online figure in the world of small business, Becky is a noted ... Many of you who frequent the small business blogs are already familiar with our latest guest expert [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 04:22:45

Friday Memos

Friday_Memos_Roundup - One more week to nominate a small business or nonprofit for WSJ’s Top Small Workplaces 2009 recognition. Nominate one here ... entrepreneurs can turn for help with starting their business. WSJ Sunday - How might new SBA ... . BusinessWeek Any other interesting or important small-business items we missed this week? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 16:16:31

DIG YOUR JOB Pre-Launch Endorsements. thankyouverymuch.

On Monday, December 15, my new book DIG YOUR JOB officially launches with a review by Playboy (no pics) ... when addressing a problem. It’s a terrific resource for small business people and for people in the workforce.” – Becky McCray, Consultant to Small Towns, Small Businesses, www.SmallBizSurvival.com. “ [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 15:11:05

Government – Small Business Quote of the Day

A small business quote a day keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained “ Japan took its success for granted ... and protection.” Kenichi Ohmae (b. 1943) Japanese management consultant & theorist, Harvard Business Review (May – June 1995) To find previous Quotes of the Day look here winweb.com - Software [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 14:29:29

Top 4 Small Business Marketing Blunders

Marketing is, for many small Internet-based businesses, a necessary evil. Unfortunately, it’s also their life bread ... so many good marketing techniques rely on urgency and scarcity. Demonstrate that you want ... care what you think about yourself. Instead, focus on what your coaching can do for them. Talk [more...]

Date: 2008-10-18 10:03:09

10 Sales Tips for Small Business Owners

Running a business is easy compared to the act of selling. As a small business owner you started your business to deliver a superior product or service, not to become a salesperson. None-the-less you must master basic sales skills or risk losing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 12:25:34

Trigger Happy

Trigger Happy is the title of HRZones’s web page devoted to employment legislation this month ... in the position of a small business with a small staff is frightening. Surely enough to put off ... Claire Moran, the owner of the small business, Forge Public Relations: From rules and regulations [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 05:01:56

When Will That Bailout Money Trickle Down Exactly?

Small_Business_Bailout_Banks A small Chicago windows manufacturer that laid off all its workers after Bank of America cut off funding has become center stage for a contentious issue: Why are banks severing the lifelines of small businesses ... received notice from Bank of America that it could no longer finance the company. Management [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 09:20:00

Delegate or Outsource - If You Want Your Business To Grow

Running a small business is not easy. Your business and its growth possibilities keep changing fast. As your business grows, there just are too many things to do. We get caught up in the details. In the initial days of my company, I did everything myself. I spoke to customers; I interacted with investors; and wrote business plans [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 17:22:12

The 6 Most Important Things

What are the six most important things you are going to do today? Do you have a plan? Did you write it down? ... , a series of 100 practical hands-on posts for small business people and solo entrepreneurs, whether ... by subscribing to Small Biz Survival. Photo by Becky McCray. Technorati Tags: small+business [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 12:58:00

Small-Business Leaders Offer Stimulus Ideas

Entrepreneurs and their representatives convened on Capitol Hill yesterday to offer their suggestions for how the new Obama administration can craft ... a portion of Small Business Administration-backed loans for businesses that create new jobs with health ... . Many of the speakers at the hearing, held by the U.S. House of Representative’s small busines [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 15:01:12

Small-Business Leaders Offer Stimulus Ideas

Entrepreneurs and their representatives convened on Capitol Hill yesterday to offer their suggestions for how the new Obama administration can craft ... a portion of Small Business Administration-backed loans for businesses that create new jobs with health ... . Many of the speakers at the hearing, held by the U.S. House of Representative’s small busines [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 14:36:44

GOP Presents New "Stimulus" Ideas

President Obama has said he would take good ideas from anywhere, ... or more of their income. House Republicans propose to allow small business to take a tax deduction equal ... new employees. Any tax cut for small business, and business in general, is beneficial in spurring [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 15:54:16

Self promotion for wimps

It is hard to describe how much I loathe those lengthy sales letters with red ink and highlights and 22 testimonials of perky business owners ... with Naomi Dunford, perhaps the most hilarious copywriter/internet marketer/small business coach ... for creative types, small business owners,and people who are (understandably) too busy freaking [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 19:05:04

Focus Marketing Budgets on Online

Yesterday the Wall Street Journal ran a story about small businesses are trying to survive this economic environment by renegotiating every vendor ... t back out of it”, says small business consultant Bill Bartmann of Bill Bartmann Enterprises in Tulsa ... and the development of social media opportunities to promote and support your business. Now you can [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 13:15:25

How To Lead

9 Amazingly Simple Things Every Effective Business Leader Does Whether your business is big, small or Indie, leading it is no small feat ... Executive Officers. There are thousands of business leaders who set good examples for us to follow [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 15:19:30

links for 2008-12-10

Time to Rethink Your Corporate Blogging Ideas Hat's off to Josh Bernoff, ... Partner to Provide Comprehensive Marketing Resource for the Full Range of Small Business Needs - MarketWatch World's Most Effective Small Business Marketing System Selects VerticalResponse [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 22:30:20

Cantor’s Obsession/Lie: Stimulus Will Spend 4x More On ‘Grass’ Than On Small Businesses»

Today, President Obama held a White House meeting with congressional leaders from both parties to discuss his Recovery and Reinvestment plan ... released last week plans for four times as much spending on “creating small business opportunity” than National Mall renovations. These figures don’t even include the plan’s $20+ billion in business tax [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 21:57:01

More on “The Bankrupt America Bill”

There is little doubt the so-called stimulus bill will pass in mid February and be immediately signed by Barack Obama ... regarding the “stimulus” plan: On the provisions of the stimulus package aimed at small business: “There is actually only 2.7 percent of this bill that is aimed at small business tax relief. In fact [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 21:13:18

A New Fair-Trade Business Model

The small business blog over at Business Week introduces us to a great company called CraftNetwork which is turning the fair-trade model on its head ... artisans - providing financial advice, computer literacy training, and business building techniques [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 01:49:20

50 CENTS?

Many are wondering what is happening to Pay Per Post and Social Spark. Suddenly everything is 200 words for $5.00 ... spending but the small to medium sized businesses are cutting back on almost everything. Who are the customers of PPP and SS? Most of them are the small to medium sized businesses or the new business start [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 03:20:35

Oneupweb Reviews : Facebook Apps for Enterprise

Pew Research data released this month has reinforced the importance of having a social media profile ... audience. Of course the The Visa Business Network is an obvious choice for small business owners ... profile page. Facebook apps for business are organized in categories by purpose, such as Recently [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 15:08:49

India Small Business News Round-up - 2009/01/22

Here is this week’s news round-up for home business, micro business, sole-traders, freelancers, self-employed and any one who is interested in small business news from India: Despite slow down ... Business Confidence Monitor. Govt, CII to bring out yellow page on NRI businessmen: The yellow page [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 12:30:12

Cash Flow Management for Small Businesses Part 2

Customers who fail to pay on time repeatedly are bad news for businesses particularly in the current climate ... be a challenge to get people to pay but do invest in business coaching to improve your skills ... consistently fail to pay on time.  As a small business it will be a frightening prospect to rock the boat [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 18:10:59

Google AdWords Now Makes it Easy to Create Free TV Ads

Google AdWords have just announced a partnership with SpotMixer, which will make it easier than ever for small business to get started with TV advertising ... barriers for small business to consider TV has been the cost of having a commercial professionally [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 02:09:42

Two Quick Interviews

You thought I disappeared after Monday’s Trust post, but no such luck. ... Sullivan, in which I’m one of several small business consultants talking about marketing ideas for 2009 ... an interview done by Craig Sutton, a fellow Tri-Citian that some of you have met at the Small Business [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 08:45:15

the resumator launches, secures funding

The Resumator is a newly-launched applicant tracking system specifically designed for small businesses ... ? The Resumator is an on-demand, Web-based service for small businesses to post your jobs and managing ... virtually all aspects of candidate management from one screen, including internal comments, soliciting [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 19:56:53

Posts about Small Business Info as of Friday, January 23, 2009

zt: Move over, Goldman - wuuyao.com 01/23/2009 Jan 13th 2009  From Economist ... over an era of … Mills, who has been chosen to head the Small Business Administration. Diana Farrell, head of the firm’ … business. Every industry and municipality in America is trying to get a piece [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 12:02:37

'cation

Tim took a few days off from work last week to work on some Wee Wonderfuls stuff. Sort of a workcation. Isn't that sad ... ... trying to run a small business with no real business sense. When things are quiet and we work ... coaches and the like. Knowing what to do and when is so tricky. Guess that's why I choose, more often [more...]

Date: 2008-08-12 13:51:16

Franchising Opportunity

With the current financial crisis that makes the world go jumping up and down these days, many find it negative to go into business especially the small scale businesses.    The media ... the negative thoughts of man, no business shall fail.    And my cousin wants to venture [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 00:39:15

Benefits of Paying an SEO Consultant

A very real and valid dilema for many small online businesses is whether or not to hire a qualified seo consultant to carry out work on their ... to better serve your business. Not only this but a competent consultant will ensure any work carried ... site. It can be an expensive process and many small businesses feel that if they simply try [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 05:07:57

Beach Notes: flipflop

When Does Flexibility Become Flipfloppiness? The Business Owner’s Challenge by Guest Writer Des Walsh The picture I took recently of an ... rapidly, massively and unpredictably. Right now, for instance, what is the small business owner ... serious challenges business owners face today. The challenge of balancing flexibility and openness [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 14:08:40

Publicity Tips for New Product Launch

Have you seen the new Coach Wooden card collection featuring the inspirational comments of famed basketball coach John Wooden? ... of small business publicity opportunities for this new product launch. Here are some suggestions ... . I realize that small business owners get overwhelmed when approaching tasks [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 16:43:00

Small Businesses Running On Solar WiFi

It sounds iffy; running your company's network on a WiFi connection that is entirely powered by solar energy ... solutions for apartment blocks or businesses and small communities at $749 a piece for a bring-your-own ... and businesses in far out, remote places with no power, attracts a lot of business from people [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 10:39:18

Staples Canada Sells Barcoding Solutions By Wasp Barcode Technologies

PLANO, Texas (October 30, 2008) - Barcoding solutions are making their first appearance at 50 Staples® Business Depot™ office superstores, giving small business owners immediate access to affordable technology that can improve ... Michelle Warren, president of Toronto-based MW Research & Consulting. “It is comprised largely of ‘big [more...]

Date: 2008-11-02 11:08:26

Promo

There's a great website that you should visit that any small businesses or even large business entities should pay attention to especially in this ... and many other promotional one stop shop ideas. The company sells lots of interesting products [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 22:24:00

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