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When potential customers decided to purchase products from lower-cost sources, one regional business decided to go luxury instead...with great results.
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Credit lines, angel investors, and your personal savings are great places to get money for your business, but they certainly aren't the only ones. Consider these alternatives.
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Good management practices are far more important to your success than big piles of cash are. Here are a dozen tips to help you start and grow your business with little or no money.
How to Become a Premier Local Brand
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Free Advertising: The Magic of Getting Media Attention
Think your business is too boring to snag journalists with a press release? Nope. With a little creativity, any business can get free advertising through PR.
What Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) Should You Measure?
With so many analytic tools available to business owners, it's easy to get lost in the data. Here's how to separate the analytic wheat from the chaff.
5 Cost Drivers To Help You Make Accurate Expense Projections
Employ cost drivers to prevent faulty overhead cost predictions from undermining your profit projection and planning efforts.
4 Social Media Strategies that Actually Work
You're tweeting, your're updating your status, you're sharing, but is any of that the right way to make social media pay?
5 Things You Can Stop Obsessing About
Some things in business are worth worrying about and some aren't. These are those that aren't.
AD&D Insurance: No Good, No Bad, Just Ugly
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What 20-Somethings Can Do About Credit Card Debt
People in their late 20s are deeper in debt than their parents were. But with these tools, you can break the debt cycle.
Read Your Financial Statements Like a Banker
Your balance sheet and income statement tell a banker more about your business than you may think. You need to know what goes on in your banker’s head when reading your financia
20 Indicators Your Financials Are Wrong
Accurate financial statements are critical to building a successful business. Here are 20 indicators that will let you know if you aren't getting accurate information.
Unlikely Sources of Capital
Credit lines, angel investors, and your personal savings are great places to get money for your business, but they certainly aren't the only ones. Consider these alternatives.
3 Keys to Making Smart Technology Purchases
Develop a clear evaluation plan before your next technology purchase and match your gadget wants with your business needs.
Change Your Company -- And Your Industry -- Steve Jobs Style
If Steve Jobs can change his industry why can't you change yours?
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Tax Law Changes For 2012: What You Need To Know
Here's a look at tax law changes you can expect for 2012 and how to plan ahead to take advantage of those changes now.
Independent Contractors vs. Employees: Keeping Them Straight
Who the IRS considers an employee and who it considers a contractor doesn't always match what a business owner might expect.