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Entrepreneur’s Tips: Although 97% of U.S. small-business owners have some degree of concern about today’s dismal economy, 26% plan to spend more on advertising – especially online – and another 60% plan to spend about the same as in 2008, according to a report from Ad-ology Research... More

Small Business Labs: 1. The Recession Drives Small Business Innovation: With the economy mired in a deep recession, small businesses will focus on cash flow, cost containment, customer retention and survival. But economic stress will also lead to a wave of small business innovation. Driven by the need... More

CIO Today: Teleworking, broadly defined, is the ability to work from a home or remote location for all or part of the work week. Companies have been implementing large-scale teleworking programs for close to a decade, following a trend that had its root in contact centers. Use of home-based agents... 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

PRLog.Org: The most popular items wholesale clothing companies carry are apparel that are sizes 0-8. Most specifically if the trend are those like the ones you see from Forever21, Wet Seal, Charlotte Russe and similar places where they are meant for skinny and petite consumers. Now, that’s a problem... More

New Hampshire Business Review: Many high-tech companies, particularly smaller ones, borrowed money to fuel their growth during the recent boom. They borrowed money from banks, venture capitalists, friends and family members and used their intellectual property — patents, copyrights and trademarks... More

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Small Business Entrepreneur blog: Being a part-time entrepreneur requires a lot of time, hard work, and dedication if you want things to work out well. After all, inside every part-time entrepreneur is the potentiality of being a successful full-time entrepreneur. If your business ideas are working... More

San Francisco Chronicle: * Even loyal customers eventually use other suppliers, so you’ll have to acquire new business in order to maintain the status quo – or to survive a difficult market. * List the firms that compete with your customers. Each company on that list is a potential new... More

Financial Post: The recession has become the consuming priority for small business owners, who don’t have the clout to lobby government for billion-dollar bailouts. But help is out there. Just look at this press release that was received the other day at my friend’s uncle’s cousin’s... More