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Why Small Businesses Should Take A Closer Look at SEO

As companies search for ways to spend their limited marketing resources more efficiently, more and more businesses are shifting their focus from traditional mass media spending to online media. Anyone…

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How to Stand Out on LinkedIn: 12 LinkedIn Tips for Job Seekers

Just when there seemed to be a glimmer of hope that our economy was heading toward a recovery, we receive more bad news: nearly 26 million workers in America are…

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Public Relations Puts Your Business on the Map for Free

“All publicity is good, except an obituary notice,” said Irish playwright Brendan Behan. Publicity, or “free” press, can be more valuable than some paid advertising campaigns because media coverage carries…

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Is Business Incubation Right for Your Business?

Is necessity truly the mother of invention? It was certainly the case nearly 50 years ago with the unintended creation of the business incubation industry. The international business incubation movement…

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5 Key Steps of Home-Based Businesses, Part 1: Look Before Leaping

Starting a business is often like “feast or famine.” On one hand, there’s the entrepreneur who has over-researched, planned, tested, borrowed, and sought out people “in the know” before making…

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5 Key Steps to a Home-based Business, Part 2: Ready, Set, Start Up

If you’ve read Look Before Leaping, the first of this 5-part series on moving a home-based business from start-up to mainstream, you’re ready for the next step: Ready, Set, Start…

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5 Key Steps of Home-Based Business, Part 3: Keep on Tracking

The third part in our five-step series on home-based businesses, Keep on Tracking, focuses on the importance of staying on top of competition, products, services, operations, and record keeping. This…

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5 Key Steps of Home-Based Businesses, Part 4: Growing With Magic Beans

The fourth article in our five-part series on home-based businesses, is “Growing with Magic Beans.” This step keeps the doors opened, so to speak, and the cash flowing. The “magic…

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21 Ways to Overcome a Series of Sales Call Rejections

As every small business owner knows, a large percentage of their day is spent selling something — from initially convincing their family to support their plans to start a new…

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5 Key Steps of Home-based Businesses, Part 5: Anchors Away!

During this five-part series, we looked at ways a small home-based business can make educated decisions in moving from start-up to mainstream. We’ve covered “Look Before Leaping,” “Ready, Set, Start…

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