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Avoiding the Small Business Cash Flow Roller Coaster


A solopreneur I know disappears from my radar screen for weeks on end when she's actively engaged on a project for a client. During this time she is heads down, totally focused, and immersed in delivering her service to her current client.

Operating Your Small Business - Everything Really Is a Project


Do you operate your business as a series of projects, using project management tools and skills to advance your projects from conception to completion? Or perhaps you're new to project management tools and skills and haven't considered applying them to your own business? Most of us fall somewhere in between.Running a productive and efficient business, whether for one person or for 500, is a series of projects of various sizes and complexity.

5 Small Business Management Questions to Help Choose Marketing Programs


As small business managers, we juggle limited resources in a quest for success. To an extent, when we focus on success in one area we forego attention elsewhere.

7 Cash Flow Secrets Your Accountant Never Told You


Looking for ways to boost your cash flow? As a small business consultant, I make these recommendations to my cash strapped small business clients:1. Shoeboxes are for shoes, not business records.

Build Your Small Business by Building Relationships


-- The One Pager Shortcut Series --People do business with people that they know and trust. As a solo entrepreneur, your goals will be to make yourself known to your target market and then elevate the relationship to the trust level.

Blowing Your Own Horn - A Key Marketing Strategy for Small Business


-- Building Credibility Through Success Stories --Successful solo entrepreneurs spend quite a bit of time building and expanding their networks. These networks can cover a broad spectrum - professional associations, community service, school or alumni networks, virtual communities, athletic groups, neighborhood associations.

Marketing Your Small Business with Success Stories


-- The One Pager Shortcut Series --An effective and compelling way to market your business is through the use of success stories. What exactly is a success story? How does it market my business? How can I get started with my own success stories?Consider the following: What exactly is a success story? A success story briefly describes how your business served a client/customer and what results the client/customer achieved.

Growing Your Small Business Through Alliances and Joint Ventures


-- Beyond Cold Calling, "Warm" Calling and Sending E-mails --Many Solo Entrepreneurs work from a home office. Our only connections to the outside world are the internet / e-mail and the telephone.

Top 7 Small Business Tax Tips


Here are seven ways for owners of small businesses to save money on their taxes.1.

Small Business Newsletter Dilemma: Which Day Do I Send?


If you're just ramping up your small business email newsletter, you might be wondering what day you should send it to your opt-in list. After all, you want it to get opened and read and you know your prospects may be weeding through a ton of email clutter.

Small Business Planning -- Three Myths


Are you -- like 70 percent of small business owners -- working without a plan?Here are three myths that need to be dispelled about strategic planning for small business.1.

Business Checks are an Added Cost to Your Small Business - Try Making Them Yourself!


Starting and managing a small business is no fun chore, especially when it comes to the accounting. There are a few common sense ways that you can help that bottom line.

Small Business Mistakes: Are You Making Enough of Them?


That's right ­ are you making enough mistakes in your business? Some of you are probably annoyed at my question; others are thinking "Geez, Rose! If I made any more mistakes I'd have to run screaming back to a day job!"If you went to school in the public school system in America, you were culturally trained to avoid and hide mistakes, after all; your teachers and professors didn't give you a great grade for your efforts unless those efforts produced great results. So, too, if you were an employee in corporate America you were rewarded for chasing perfection and penalized for making mistakes.

Small Business Spoiler - Procrastination


One of the most common issues that comes up for business owners is procrastination -wasting time, putting obstacles in the way of taking action towards goals, making excuses for delays, creating confusion/busyness etc. Procrastination is a self-defeating behavior.

Small Business Savvy: Reaching Key Big Business Decision Makers


As a solo entrepreneur or small business owner, one of our key challenges can be reaching key decision makers in larger companies. Getting to the right person who can seal the deal can be a frustrating experience, especially if you don't have a game plan.

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BBC News

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AFP

UPDATE 1-Fed's Kroszner-small business credit access shrank
Reuters - 8 hours ago
... businesses have tightened substantially since last April," Kroszner said in prepared testimony to the House of Representatives Small Business Committee. ...
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Treasury Turns Attention to Credit Needs of Small Businesses Insurance Journal
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EPA Reform of SPCC Rule Benefits Small Business
MarketWatch - 2 hours ago
The Office of Advocacy of the US Small Business Administration is encouraged that the EPA listened to small business and included those provisions in the ...
Wells Fargo named top small-business lender in Texas Bizjournals.com
Democrats Can Jump Start Recovery By Reinvesting in SBA Huffington Post
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UPDATE 2-Intuit cuts outlook, sees small business cautious
Reuters - 23 hours ago
... software and for revenue from payroll and bill payment processing services, as its small business customers get squeezed by the deepening recession. ...
Intuit Q1 Loss Widens; Lowers Full-Year Forecast RTT News
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Small business focus of Detroit mayoral debate
DetNews.com, MI - 5 hours ago
The forum at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History focused on small business, and candidates testified about how they fostered economic ...
Detroit mayoral candidates make their cases at forum Detroit Free Press
Mayoral candidates to hold forum Detroit Free Press
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Wall Street Journal Blogs

SBA steps aimed to fuel small-business lending
Finance and Commerce, MN - 4 hours ago
by Finance and Commerce staff The US Small Business Administration announced two steps this week to improve access to capital for small businesses. ...
Small business loans dwindle The Tennessean
With Credit Tight, US Gives Small Business a Hand New York Times
December 22 Is Deadline to Apply for SBA Economic Injury Disaster ... MarketWatch
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Evening Sun (subscription)

Small Business Committee to discuss growth strategies
Times Herald-Record, NY - 17 hours ago
By Christian Livermore MONTGOMERY — The Orange County Chamber of Commerce's Small Business Committee will present a discussion, "Help Your Business Grow," ...
Chamber honors local small business leaders Evening Sun (subscription)
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Zions Bank Small Business Index Released
Main Street Business Journal, UT - 6 hours ago
The Small Business Index makes the assumption that most of Utah's small businesses are borrowers, with interest rate cuts boosting the Index. ...


TalkSwitch Ships 35000 Small Business IP-PBX Systems
TMCnet - 3 hours ago
“We’ve sold more systems because we understand small business better,” Scheeren said. “No other company has focused exclusively on small business telephony ...
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Despite Credit Crunch, Small Business Lending Still Alive and Kicking
U.S. News & World Report, DC - 6 hours ago
Andrew Sherman, a partner at Dickstein Shapiro LLP in DC, said regarding small business access to capital that "the patient is sick, the patient is ugly, ...

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