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Small Business Trends (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Along with slowing sales, many small businesses are encountering difficulty collecting on money that is owed to their business. A recent Intuit Payroll Survey of over 1000 small businesses indicated about 50% are having this problem. Is your business one of them? It’s hard to keep your cash flow on an even keel when people won’t pay you for the work you’ve done. To have good cash...
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Small Business Trends (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Google’s getting into the holiday spirit a little early this year, announcing the availability of mobile coupons for small business owners . The coupon part has been around for awhile , however, Google’s done a pretty good job failing to promote them. But no longer. With the change, any business owner who creates and adds a mobile coupon to their Google Local Business listing will now...
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Small Business Trends (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
Late last week we kicked off the 2009 Best Small Business Book Awards — Reader’s Choice. It’s an opportunity for readers like you to vote on your favorite new business books of 2009. The response has been outstanding. Originally my goal was to get 1,000 votes. Well, we’ve already blown past that number. So, am I content to just sit back now? Of course not! I’ve upped...
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The Register (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Tech firm behaves like a proper company eBay is offering customers hit by the failure of its search engine last weekend the chance to relist items, rather than sell them at lower prices. They are also offering discount vouchers to buyers who are disappointed to have lost out.… The power of collaboration within unified communications
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Small Business CEO (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
Today’s small businesses are adept at using online tools such as email newsletters and surveys to help develop strong relationships with their customers. While these tools can enable two-way communications, face-to-face interactions can be an effective way to build and instill trust in these relationships. It’s that sense of community and interaction that in-person events [...]
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Small Business Trends (Free subscription) | yesterday
Keeping track of customers and your interactions with them is never an easy task. BatchBook calls itself the social CRM solution for small business owners and entrepreneurs. I set up a free trial account and the following is my review after testing out the service. The application gives a user a way to manage all the disconnected information about a customer in one place. Other tools do this, too,...
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Small Business Trends (Free subscription) | yesterday
So, probably by now, you have a website, getting a bunch of traffic to it and you’re implementing some tweaks to your site along the way. And yet you’ve got this nagging feeling that you’re not making the most of your website traffic. Despite the many tools out there, I find that most of us have a similar sentiment. The nagging feeling stems from the fact that our sites bring in...
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The Register (Free subscription) | yesterday
Cheap credit is over and its not coming back, says CBI The impact of the recession on British businesses may well be permanent, and will certainly last until well into the next decade, the UK's union for bosses has declared.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Small Business CEO (Free subscription) | yesterday
Late last week, Small Business Trends announced the start of their 2nd annual small business book awards. They have nominated 47 small business books for readers to pick their favorites from. The top 10 books most voted for will be announced as the winners. The Small Business Book Awards, presented by Small Business Trends, recognize the [...]
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Small Business Trends (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Upstarts is the new book by Donna Fenn about young entrepreneurs from Generation Y. The book is filled with fascinating stories and case examples of these young entrepreneurs. The full title of the book is Upstarts!: How GenY Entrepreneurs are Rocking the World of Business and 8 Ways You Can Profit from Their Success . About Generation Y Before I delve deeper into the book, let me explain “Generation...
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Small Business Trends (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
This week’s compilation of small business events has some great opportunities to learn and connect with fellow entrepreneurs and small business owners – both live and online. This list is brought to you every two weeks by Small Business Trends and Smallbiztechnology.com . Google 101 for Small Business and Entrepreneurs November 23, 2009, 5:15pm EST, New York City A free interactive workshop...
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Small Business Trends (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
If you are interested in using the Internet to grow your business virally, then “ Viral Loop: From Facebook to Twitter, How Today’s Smartest Businesses Grow Themselves ” is a must-read. I bought this book as part of my search for the “Not to be missed” books of 2009 (in preparation for the second annual business book awards). And I’m glad I’ve gotten to it...
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Small Business Trends (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The recession is cutting into small and midsized businesses’ IT spending, and some industries are hurting more than others, according to the results of the latest IT Effectiveness Index (ITEI) survey. The ITEI is a benchmarking tool that measures the technology effectiveness of small and midsized businesses. ( Small Business Trends is one of the partners of the study.) According to the latest...
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Small Business Trends (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Every year I do a certain number of holiday cartoons. While they always sell well, they’re among the hardest ideas to generate. Thanksgiving is the hardest. Halloween and Christmas have tons of great stuff to play with, and Valentine’s Day is pretty good, but Thanksgiving is pretty much just turkey. One year I got to thinking about how bad it has to be being a turkey in November, and that...
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Small Business Trends (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
It’s time to vote on your favorite small business books of 2009. For the second year in a row we are holding the Best Small Business Book Awards – Reader’s Choice. This year the Awards are bigger and better than ever. A total of 47 books have been nominated. And you can help choose the winners . The 10 books that get the most votes from readers like you will receive a Reader’s...
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