Archive for February, 2010

Across the U.S. — indeed, around the world — universities are responding to a wave of students who want careers as entrepreneurs and small business owners. Over 110 university programs focused on such entrepreneurship, small business and family business education and training are now featured in the SmallBusiness.com University Entrepreneurship Programs Hub. Each entry...
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Each March, I* go to the gigantic gathering in Austin, Texas called South by Southwest Interactive. In the years I’ve attended, it has grown from a small conference that was held in a small corner of that city’s convention center to a sprawling mega-convention that spreads out over the entire convention center and hotels...
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Today, members of Congress are attending a health-care summit hosted by President Obama in order to see if a healthcare reform legislative package can be negotiated and passed this year. Most of the coverage leading up to the gathering has been focused on the political intrigue of the summit: “High stakes gambit” is how...
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I’ll be the first to admit, I get a little confused because there seems to be several weeks and months throughout the year that we are supposed to celebrate some official small business or entrepreneurship week or month. (In a later post and SmallBusiness.com entry, I’ll list several). I guess it’s a little...
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Elance Blog served up economic wisdom that seems to confuse some economists: If the economy is growing, dramatic increases in productivity can only cover so much of that improvement. And so, if the Labor Department keeps reporting that jobs are lost, who’s doing all that work that’s expanding the economy? Well, for one thing, labor...
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First the best news: We’ve made it much, much easier to create a User profile on SmallBusiness.com. We’ve installed a wiki “extension” that makes creating a user profile as easy as filling in the blanks and uploading your photo or logo (or, avatar, as it’s officially called). To create a User profile, simply log...
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Small businesses have doubled their usage of social media in the past year according to a press release issued today by the Univeristy of Maryland’s School of Business as part of its on-going “Small Business Success Index” annual survey sponsored by Network Solutions. The survey found that nearly one out of five small business owners...
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I have yet to meet a small business owner — especially myself — who knows everything. When faced with a business-related dilemma, it’s important to admit it when you don’t know something — and quickly turn to someone who does. While sites like SmallBusiness.com are packed with answers and how-tos and guides and definitions and...
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At SmallBusiness.com, there’s a group of folks we call helpers. They are like elves. You never know where you’ll find them. Recently some helpers put together a new Editing Tutorial on SmallBusiness.com. It’s a great way to get familiar with the wikitext method of formatting an entry on SmallBusiness.com or any wiki running on...
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On the new SmallBusiness.com blog, we want to feature lots of voices from the world of small business. We’ll be calling on our friends — bloggers and others who have great insight, points of view and information about specific products, trends or issues that are important to small businesses. But we want to hear from...
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