Courtesy of a recent Discover Card Small Business Watch, a monthly index of the economic confidence of the nation’s 22 million businesses with 5 or fewer employees:
Key Findings
46 percent of small business owners said that they have experienced cash flow issues in the last 90 days, an increase over last month’s 41 percent and July’s […]
Courtesy of FoxBusiness.com:
The third-most popular resolution, according to myGoals.com, is starting a business. The cost of such a venture can vary greatly. “You can start a business with anything,” said John McDowell, a spokesman for the Small Business Administration. “You could be someone with $300 million in startup capital, or someone who wants to do […]
I ran across this site, FormNet, recently offered by Entrepreneur.com that provides a large collection of free form templates broken down by category. If what they offer is not exactly what you are looking for, you can at least use one of their’s as your model and customize from there. Anyways, seems very useful so […]
Courtesy of Entrepreneur.com :
On a shoestring budget (and what entrepreneur isn’t?), it really pays to scrimp and save. Just in case you’ve forgotten the value of a hard-earned penny, we’ve come up with a slew of money-saving ideas to boost your business’s bottom line-from cutting your legal bills to inexpensive ways […]
Courtesy of Instigator Blog:
Buzz alone won’t guarantee startup success, but it certainly can’t hurt.
In the glorious Web 2.0 startup world that many of us live in there’s a lot of noise. To stand out from the noise, startups need to do more to draw attention. Some startups are great at this. The folks at Xobni […]
Courtesy of PPC Hero:
Last week, Google unveiled updates to the Location Targeting (geo-targeting) function within AdWords. In the wake of this event, I felt that there was no better time than the present to write a 1-2 punch article on geo-targeting. The geo-targeting options in AdWords and Yahoo! Search Marketing (YSM) both have the same […]
Courtesy of Startup Spark:
You don’t offer free original content. People use this to understand you and get to know you as an expert they can trust,
You don’t use a signature file on your e-mails. It’s a selling opportunity that’s often missed.
You don’t have your own domain name. Even in this day and age using a […]
Courtesy of Small Biz Technology:
To stay ahead, small businesses must find and fund innovation that sets them apart. But how do you acquire assets that enable innovation when you’re short on capital?
There was a time when the only option was to pay cash, put it on your credit card, or take out a loan. […]
