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Ask the Readers: How Do You Show Love Without Spending Money?

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Four Common Mistakes to Avoid in Running Your Small Business

You are the master of your domain. And as a small business owner, your domain is nothing to sneeze at. So let’s make it a little easier by learning from other people's mistakes.

How to Get Huge Savings With Used Office Equipment

When you buy used office equipment, you can save 50-75% over retail. Here is our quick expert guide to knowing when to buy used, what to look for, and how it can benefit your botto

5 Ways that Your Small Business Site Might Be Failing

If your website doesn't appeal to online searchers, you might lose a sale. Learn how to avoid five of the most common small business website mistakes.

Warning: The Internet May Be Dangerous to Your Wealth

The Internet has created lots of new opportunities, especially for scam artists and fraudsters. Here's a look at several new strains and how you can protect yourself from them.

Ask the Readers: What Are Your Short-Term Financial Goals?

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Solve the Mystery of Staffing Your Accounting Department

Most startup, entrepreneurial, and growing businesses struggle to solve the mystery of how to properly and effectively structure their accounting and finance department to max

Ways That Small Businesses Get Ripped Off by Banks

Learn how to ensure that your new financial services help, and don't harm, your business's profits.

8 Bad Financial Habits You Should Drop

Bad habits are made to be broken.

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Tallying the True Cost of Debt

The financial cost is easy to quantify. But the consequences of debt are never isolated. Our debt problem infects every aspect of our lives; it affects our careers, our family, an

5 Ways You Can Improve Cash Flow with Your Invoices

Most clients tend to pay on a net-30 basis — no number of phone calls or nagging will change that number. But a few tweaks to your invoices can often make a difference in how so

5 Lawsuit Mistakes You Can Avoid

You may not be able to avoid lawsuits altogether, but you can improve your outcome by avoiding a few mistakes early in the process.

4 Common Investment Mistakes With First-Time Profits

Getting a startup to profitability is cause for celebration. But it's no time to lose focus on the bottom line.

7 Ways to Help Protect Your Financial Future From Unexpected Medical Expenses

Every 7 seconds a working-age American suffers a disabling injury that leaves him financially vulnerable. Are you prepared?

Financing an Expansion

There are a number of sources of capital for most business owners who need help financing an expansion. It's just a matter of finding the right fit for your company.

Last-Minute Business Tax Deductions for 2010

Financial professionals share the best ways to take advantage of great tax deductions before the year's end.

25 Questions to Ask Before You Outsource HR

A Professional Employment Organization can make a business owner's life a lot easier. But as with any business relationship, it pays to know what you're getting into before you do.

7 Tips for Small Business Success in Troubled Times

When the going gets tough, small business gets going.

6 Ways to Prepare for the Holiday Rush

The holiday shopping season is right around the corner. Are you prepared?