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Use Value-Added Sales to Boost Your Profit Margin

Your margins are under attack. Defend them!

7 Effective Tools for Managing a Virtual Team

Managing a virtual team can get complicated, fast. Here's how to keep it simple.

Turn Your Business Into a Money Machine

When it comes right down to it, every business is a money machine. Some are just better designed than others.

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15 Low Cost Ways to Beat Stress

Emotional spending and expensive junk food binges -- budget busters -- are often triggered by stress. Here are 15 ideas for diminishing stress without spending a lot of money.

Cash-Strapped Businesses Turn to Purchase-Order Financing

Many business owners are turning to alternative lenders who offer to finance their purchase order.

Dealing With Problem Employees: The Basics of Progressive Discipline

You never want to fire anyone. As a business owner you want to lead, develop, and empower people.

5 Small Businesses That Made It Big With The Help Of Reality Shows

Appearing on reality television might be one of the biggest breaks you can get for your small business. Here's what to know, and how to make it happen.

Last-Minute Giving

Here’s a gift idea that will help put you in the holiday spirit. It will not help you mark “done” on your gift list but may save a life. If you’re feeling well today, have mailed a

Ask The Readers: How Do You Buy Music?

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The Value of a Business

Placing a value on your business is rarely a simple matter, but an independent appraisal can offer a very different number than what you might come up with.

Building Philanthropy Into a Business

Philanthropy can be built into the structure of your company and, depending on how you handle it, that philanthropy can improve your business.

Sharing Space to Save Money

Splitting your office, storefront, or warehouse with another business could help you save big...and not just on rent.

3 Must Have Business Agreements

These three agreements can keep your business -- and you -- from getting burned.

10 Ways to Check Your Ego at the Door

Even though it's your business it really isn't about you. It's about your business.

4 Lies Business Owners Tell Themselves

Optimism in business is essential, but so is realism. Are you lying to yourself about the state of your business?

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5 Best Amazon Deals for Monday 09/30

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Life Insurance for Your Business

As a business owner, you probably already own more insurance policies than you ever imagined you would: liability, contents, vehicles, and any number of policies are often stric