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FreshBusinessThinking.com: Online social network for homeworkers Enterprise Nation is giving £100 to 100 businesses and would-be businesses for their “good ideas”. The competition, in association with PayPal, is asking its members how they’d spend the money on their ventures, awarding... More

PC World: After just over a year as a coveted, invitation-only beta, Google has officially launched Google Voice as a free service for all. Google Voice adds another component to the suite of tools available from Google providing small and medium businesses with cost-effective tools enabling them to... More

New York Daily News: No tax question is too tough for New York’s top accountants, and Your Money is putting them to work for you — for free. The annual Daily News Tax Hotline is returning this week to assist filers. An all-star team of certified public accountants will be on hand tomorrow, Wednesday... More

Bizjournals.com: Need help figuring out the next step for your small business? The Montreat College MBA program may have some answers. A team of the school’s graduate students is offering consulting services as part of the class’ spring semester project. The students interview the selected business... More

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SCORE, ‘Counselors to America’s Small Business,’ is a nonprofit organization offering 2 free workbooks to the first 1,000 people to sign up. The 2 workbooks are comprehensive guides to starting and structuring a business, and are great resources for any entrepreneur. To get your free copy... More

Top Small Business Coach Robert Moment Offers Unique Guarantee for entrepreneurs and small business owners. PR-Inside.com: Robert Moment, innovative forward-thinking small business and marketing coach (www.howtostartyoursmallbusiness.com) recently announced that he is offering an unconditional money... More

NFIB: Google is the most widely used search engine on the Internet. But a search engine is not only a valuable research tool for the conventional Web surfer, it is also a commodity for both the traditional and not-so-traditional small business owner. An increasing number of entrepreneurs are discovering... More

TheDay.com: Thinking of starting a business? In need of marketing advice for your existing business? Then consider tapping into the services of the southeastern Connecticut chapter of SCORE, which dubs itself the counselor to America’s small business community. It’s valuable advice –... More

PC Magazine: Google today announced the widespread availability of the new Google Sites app. Launched back in February, the site was initially limited to use by companies and organizations. Integrated into Google Apps, Sites gives users the ability to create Web pages that can be securely hosted by... More

It may not be the sexiest topic in the world, but every small business has to have Worker’s Compensation Coverage. Unless you know what you are doing, you can get stung badly. Allbusiness.com has an excellent article about that. Here is some of it– More  Read More →

NicheGeek: Last summer we wrote about FreeHand Advertising and its initiative to give free, ad-supported notepaper to college students, and now ABS Notebooks is going a step further and handing out whole notebooks instead. The Shadow Notebook is a five-subject notebook that gets cobranded with participating... More

Knoxville News Sentinel: Small business owners in need of capital can find out about federal and state guaranteed loans at the 2008 Small Business Loan Expo on Tuesday at the Knoxville Health Department, 140 Dameron Ave. The expo is free and starts at noon. The event is “a great opportunity for businesses... More

Kansas City Star: Award-winning Bo Lings Fine Chinese Cuisine, with about 150 employees at six area restaurants, has mastered the art of Chinese cooking. But owners Richard and Theresa Ng have found that operating the business can sometimes present stressful challenges. Last year, for example, the Ngs... More