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Jim Kukral, Author of the book, “Attention! This Book Will Make You Money,” knows that business owners that are wise enough to put their ego in the backseat are laughing all the way to the bank. You ask why? It’s simple. Because they understand that it’s absolutely necessary if you want to skyrocket sales, generate [...]

When you’re an entrepreneur and run your own business, chances are your marketing budget is limited.  But you can make up for that limitation with attention marketing. Attention marketing is all about attracting attention to your business and your brand — in such a way that you turn that attention into revenue.  And that’s what [...]

How do you go about marketing your small business? Chances are these days much of your marketing is done online. So an important part of marketing your small business is to be sure your marketing site is doing the job for your small business that results in more customers and more revenue. In this Small [...]

Innovation is transforming just about every business today and especially small businesses that can quickly harness emerging new tools to change the rules of the game in competing with their larger counterparts. In this Small Business Trends roundup we look at some of those innovations and changes and how they are altering reality and perception [...]

What’s your million dollar small business idea? Oh, rest assured, we all have one…just waiting to break free. So what’s holding us back? In this edition of our small business news roundup, Small Business Trends looks at what it takes to develop and launch that big idea we all have inside. Marketing Want to make [...]

Can you hear me now? That phrase is one we all utter, most frequently from mobile phones, but sometimes from landlines and VOIP phones. We have to keep up with voicemail and text messaging.  I want phone services to keep up with me, not the other way around. In this post, we highlight 22 phone [...]

This week’s list has some excellent opportunities for growing companies to learn and network over the next few months. 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. ****** The Way I Work: A Network and Learn Business [...]

Starting a business need not be scary and you don’t need to be a seasoned entrepreneur to get on the right road to success. In fact, for the most successful entrepreneurs, the key has been simply experimenting to find out what works and then letting the right market find them. Of course, advice from other [...]

Though we generally try to bring you the latest in small business news, this Small Business trends roundup attempts to dig deep, not only into the present but into the history of the federal estate tax, often call “the death tax” which was repealed at the beginning of 2010, but threatens to make a comeback [...]

Anita Campbell recently blogged in this space that the government’s efforts to spur small business lending have largely fallen flat. Last year I blogged here about how big banks including Wells Fargo, Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase were pledging to lend more money to small businesses in 2010. Have the banks come through [...]