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Often the best learning experiences come from a combination of listening to experts and interacting with your small business peers. The next few months have some great opportunities to do both. This list of small business webinars, events and conferences is brought to you every two weeks as a community service by Small Business Trends [...]

Sometimes small business news and advice is just too theoretical, too poetic, too colorful to help the average small business owner or entrepreneur. We get it. That’s why we assemble the Small Business Trends small business news roundup to give you the news you need to start operate your business more creatively, more efficiently, more [...]

There are dozens, if not hundreds, of social media books out there.  So how is a many-hat-wearing business owner supposed to know which ones to read?   Here is a list of the 10 social media books that small business owners can read to get the most bang for their social media investment of time and [...]

Welcome to the One on One conversation series, where Small Business Trends will be speaking to some of the best minds in business today. The goal of the series is to pick the brains of successful entrepreneurs, best-selling author, and executives with organizations serving the small business community, to provide the Small Business Trends community [...]

I first read Clate Mask and Scott Martineau’s story on the InfusionSoft web site.  When I heard they had this book out, I quickly purchased a copy. Here’s the Cliff’s Notes version of their story:  A couple of guys start a software business.  The business has its ups and downs and in August 2002, it [...]

Summer vacation time is winding down, but there are lots of great upcoming events to help you learn, connect and jump into Fall. This list of small business webinars, events and conferences is brought to you every two weeks as a community service by Small Business Trends and Smallbiztechnology.com. ****** Advanced Facebook for Business August [...]

You already know how important it is, so we won’t waste time with that. Simply, social media can transform your small business if it is used correctly. Since we’re all about empowering small business here at Small Business Trends, we thought we’d put together a little workshop with this small business news roundup featuring some [...]

The next few months have some great contests and competitions going on for growing companies. Don’t wait till summer is over to think about it – there are some deadlines coming up soon. This list of contests, competitions and awards for small businesses, brought to you every other week as a community service by Small [...]

This Small Business Trends roundup is all about getting down to business. Small business owners and entrepreneurs know that after all the planning its time to make things happen. But to do so, small business owners need to constantly keep learning, refine their business even while they are building it and always look for the [...]

By now you may have heard of the popular online coupon marketplace known as Groupon. With Groupon, businesses can offer steeply discounted services or products to be showcased for Groupon’s vast following. A certain number of users must sign up in order for the offer to take effect, which spurs users to spread the word [...]