It’s the time of year when small business owners are thinking about New Year’s resolutions. To make the task a little easier, Chicago small business incubator Gaebler Ventures has created an automatic Small Business New Year’s Resolution Generator.
To use Gaebler’s free New Year’s resolution generator, visit the web page and you’ll automatically get five New [...]
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Giving to Charity Year Round
Everywhere you look these days companies of all sizes are involved with a variety of charitable events and outreach. Be it a food or toy drive for a local homeless shelter or fundraising efforts for a charitable organization, companies want to get their name out there and build goodwill with their customers and community as [...]
Expand Your Offerings by Expanding Your Networking, Part 2
Editor’s note: Below is the second of a two-part article by contributor Caprice DeLorm focused on ways in which you can expand what you offer to clients without directly expanding your business. The first part, which can be found here , covered different options for expanding what you can offer to clients.
As discussed in [...]
Extend Your Knowledge, and Your Customers
Over the past few weeks it seems like every retailer has been hammering home messaging implying that we are in the season of giving. While it can sometimes be tired, the notion of giving is something that we should all consider while doing business. Think about it, receiving a gift often invokes happiness, as does [...]
The Mysteries of Web 2.0 Laid Bare
The following guest post is brought to us by the Internet Marketing Center.
Web 2.0… it’s a term we’ve all heard, but it’s still a source of great confusion.
Is it just another buzz phrase that might have something to do with MySpace or Faceboook? Or is it really a whole lot more?
Sole Proprietorships Mean No Backup
This guest post is part of our ongoing Small Business Perspective series, and is written by Monique Wakefield, owner of Paws-n-Tails in Dallas, TX.
Owning your own business can be overwhelming at times, especially if you are running it all by yourself. For example, many pet sitters, photographers, and exterminators work alone. When you have [...]
Health Care Questions for Small Biz
Over the past few months one of the hottest topics in the news has been on health care reform. While news outlets put their spin on the subject in terms of individuals, they often leave out what it means to the small business owner. This video is from the Chair of the Council of Economic [...]
Small Biz Survey Shows Online Marketing Growing
Vistaprint recently conducted a survey of small businesses to get some insight into what kind of things they were focusing on from a marketing perspective and what they might be willing to try in 2010. The company also wanted to find out where small businesses went to get marketing knowledge, and what some of the [...]
