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Growing Smart: Best Bet Strategies to Expand Your Business

Business growth strategies range from the cheap, easy and safe to the expensive, hard and risky — with plenty of room in between. Here's a summary of growth strategies fro

20 Important Lessons I Learned From My Marketing Mentor

We recently interviewed 20 successful small business men and women to get some insight into the teachers that mattered most to them over the years, as well as the truths that he

How Much Pro Bono Work Is Too Much?

How much pro bono work should you accept? How should you choose the customers? And how do you ensure these friendly freebies don't land you in the scope creep sinkhole?

How to Write Off Start-Up Costs

Getting a business up and running is usually expensive. But once yours is a going concern, you can turn some of those costs into standard business deductions.

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Things to Consider Before Uprooting Your Business

Deciding to uproot your business and go virtual can be very liberating, but there are a number of things to consider and account for before pulling the plug on your office space.

16 Simple Ways to Keep Customers

Getting customers is great, but keeping them is even better. Here's how to hang on to the most important part of your business.

Innovations In Advertising

Where won't clever marketers place their advertisements? Where will you?

New Year’s Small Business Booster Plan

Don't let those end of year promotional calendars go to waste -- use them to sketch out key sales, marketing and operational initiatives throughout the coming year.

Business Continuity Planning: Are You Leaving a Legacy or a Liability?

In order to truly be successful, you need to think beyond the current generation and consider what will happen when you are no longer at the helm.

5 Ways To Connect With Generation C

You've figured out how to do business with Generations X and Y. Are you ready for Generation C?

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The How, When, and Why of Extending Trade Credit

Deciding how, when, and to whom you extend credit, is just one part of an overall credit and accounts receivable management system.

5 Quick Ways to Become a Better Networker Today

Before you can work your network you've got to build it.

5 Best Amazon Deals for Friday 09/06

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Getting Your Financial Life Together: Highlights from Our Chat With Erin Lowry

Don't miss the highlights from our chat with Erin Lowry on getting your financial life together!

Improving Your Online Community

Turning visitors into community members can mean big benefits for your company.

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.

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