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Don't Let Your Cash Flow Down the Drain

Water comes in the faucet, water goes out the drain. If the amount running in matches the amount going out, the water stays at an acceptable level. That's how cash flow works.

8 Great Businesses Ideas You Can Start Today

Most of these recession-proof ideas don't require a lot of capital, and can be run from a home office.

Finding Legal Representation for Your Business

By spending time on finding the right legal representation for your business when you're not under the gun, you can make sure that you use the best person.

Offering Stock to Your Employees: 5 Key Financial Considerations

You can choose to make your employees more involved with your business' future by offering them stock in the company.

27 Money-Saving Tips from Successful Small Businesses

In economic conditions rich or lean, these tried and true cost cutting tips can fatten your bottom line.

7 Reasons Your E-mail Pitches Are Failing

Is your email marketing really just email spam?

We Were Hacked! 8 Tips for Minimizing Your Risk

By following a few simple strategies, you can prevent your business from becoming another victim of cyber-crime.

9 Smartphone Apps to Manage Your Money

Here's something else that smartphone in your pocket won't let you leave back at the office: Management of your company's finances.

Recognize And Manage The 5 Stages Of Small Business Growth

From start-up through maturity, leading a small business as it passes through its growth stages requires a variety of skills and temperaments.

3 Undervalued Employee Virtues

Honesty is a virtue. So are inventiveness, integrated thinking, and occasional imprudence. Learn how to identify and motivate these key employee virtues.

Use Systems To Save Time And Money

For business tasks you dread or commonly avoid, build task management systems to help you stop procrastinating and free you to work where your skills matter most.

3 Tax Reasons to Sell Your Business in 2012

With some beneficial tax rules changing after 2012 and the market for small businesses heating up, the year upcoming may be the year to sell.

Best Money Tips: Ways to Improve Your Next Flight

Today we found some awesome articles on ways to improve your next flight, lies you shouldn't tell your interviewer, and how to get the best deal on your new car.

5 Things You Should Never Tell Investors

In case you ever find yourself trying to convince sophisticated investors that your business is worthy of their cash, here are five common faux-pas you should never say in your

10 Tips for Creating Your 2011 Budget

Regardless of how the economy has impacted your business, planning and budgeting for 2011 is an important tool to help you maximize your results.

6 Common Small Business Money Leaks And How To Plug Them

Let a few dollars leak here and a few dollars leak there, and pretty soon it's a torrent of dollars rushing away.

4 Lessons from Netflix's Price Hike

Netflix's recent price increase offers a crash course in the right way -- and the wrong way -- to roll out a price boost.

What to Do When the Wrong Person for the Job is You

Face it, even company founders are asked to move on, eventually. Here's how to plan ahead and lessen the blow.