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A round up of the best of the Web for small and medium-sized business owners.
Features
Ten Sales Mistakes Small Businesses Make
Your sales team, and the revenue they secure for you, can make or break your business. So don't fall into these traps that can make you look like this is your first rodeo.
Ten Ways to Raise Capital
Money's too tight to mention. Or maybe you need money for nothing, because your product or service is still only available on the back of a coaster from the local bar. Fact is, if your business needs to get some extra money, there's a limited number of ways to do that -- here are ten of them.
Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word
Why do big corporations find it so hard to apologize -- and should they be more willing to own up when they screw up? When is being proactive about admitting fault just going to hurt your business?
Articles & Advice
Google BAdwords, courtesy of HuffPo.
Huffington Post published this slideshow of humorous Google adwords. You know, the ads that appear in the sidebar....
Unemployment Insurance Tax - What The Media Isn't Saying
is it possible that an increase in UI taxes will cause businesses to fold? Company.com did a little digging.
Ten Sales Mistakes Small Businesses Make
Your sales team, and the revenue they secure for you, can make or break your business. So don't fall into these traps that can make you look like this is your first rodeo.
Ten Ways to Raise Capital
Money's too tight to mention. Or maybe you need money for nothing, because your product or service is still only available on the back of a coaster from the local bar. Fact is, if your business needs to get some extra money, there's a limited number of ways to do that -- here are ten of them.
Dotcom Dodos
CNN Money have this great report on the ten biggest dotcom flops. Click here to read the full story.
Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word
Why do big corporations find it so hard to apologize -- and should they be more willing to own up when they screw up? When is being proactive about admitting fault just going to hurt your business?
Newswatch: WSJ discusses proposal to make the SBA the lender of last resort for small businesses.
A Wall Street Journal article discusses the legislative expectations around President Obama's $30 billion small business lending initiative, "given the fruitless history of similar past proposals and skepticism from the Obama administration."
Small business lending rises in January
PayNet reported an increase in small business lending in January, the third straight month of reported increases. Lending remains well below levels at the start of the recession, and delinquencies rose, PayNet Inc reported on Tuesday. PayNet, based just outside of Chicago, is an original, proprietary, and large source of credit history data on small businesses.
What the Austin Plane Crash Means for Small Businesses
On February 18th 2010, Andrew Stack III allegedly crashed a Piper Cherokee PA-28 into the Internal Revenue Service building in Austin, Texas. In an apparent suicide note, Stack railed at the government and the IRS, and quoted Section 1706 of the 1986 Tax Reform Act. But what does 1706 say, and how does it affect you as an employer? And yes, it probably does.
Newswatch: 101 Small Business Mistakes
Glen Stansberry of LifeDev and Gregory Go, cofounder and CTO of Killer Aces Media, compiled a list for American Express' Open Forum of 101 mistakes small business owners make and the hard lessons they learned. Jeff Bezos confesses to a little irrational overconfidence at the start of Amazon.com. "We got lucky," he said. "I would still advise people to make the rational, deliberate choice the vast majority of the time.”