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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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Small business shuns health care tax credit
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By Jose Pagliery @CNNMoney May 23, 2012: 5:56 AM ET A health care tax credit meant to help small businesses has been called too weak and confusing. A recent report by the Government Accountability Office concurs. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- A tax credit ...
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SBA Honors Small Business Champions
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By US Small Business Administration WASHINGTON, May 22, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The US Small Business Administration today honored nine champions of small business, including a service disabled veteran who is passionate about helping fellow ...
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In honor of National Small Business Week, Experian offers small business ...
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Efficiency Expert Reveals Her Secret To A Successful Small Business Is A Winner
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Sydney's Northern Beaches (PRWEB) May 23, 2012 The competition challenges small business owners to submit their top tip for running a small business in 100 words or less. The first winner, awarded by a judging panel made up of Suncorp Bank CEO David ...

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SBA, AARP form new alliance to support “encore” entrepreneurs
Washington Post
The chief of the Small Business Administration on Wednesday announced a new partnership between her agency and the AARP to provide counseling and training to individuals over the age of 50 who want to start or grow a small business.
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Survey: Small Business Owners Optimistic of Local Economy
Southern Pines Pilot
Bank of America has just released its -inaugural semiannual study of the concerns, aspirations and perspectives of small business owners across the country. So, in honor of National Small Business Week, I thought it would be apropos to share the ...
Local Store Owners Talk About Challenges of Being a Small BusinessOzarksFirst.com

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Small Business Awards celebrate success of entrepreneurs
Galesburg Register-Mail
Nic Mink with Sitka Salmon Shares smiles as he accepts the Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the 2012 West Central Illinois Small Business Day event Tuesday at the Lake Storey Pavilion. By JOHN PULLIAM Awards were presented in nine different categories ...



Allstate Ramps Up Small Business Recruiting Effort in Mid Atlantic
Sacramento Bee
By Allstate Insurance Company FAIRFAX, Va., May 22, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- With National Small Business Week kicking off this week, Allstate Insurance Company today announced it is recruiting an additional 56 small business owners interested in owning ...

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Poll Reveals Small Business Presidential Picks
KTVA CBS 11 News Alaska
According to another poll released today by the online business community Manta.com, nearly 60 percent of small business owners in nine states across the country said they'd vote for the Republican ticket in November. In the survey of nearly 400 owners ...

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Best Banks For Small-Business Loans
Huffington Post
When it comes to getting a loan for your small business, it may not come down to who you know, but where you go. Banking Grades, a new grading tool from Philadelphia-based MultiFunding, found that some of the nation's biggest banks have the worst ...


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