If you had told me a decade ago that I could pay $40 a month for all the phone calls I could make coast to coast, I wouldn’t have believed it. I used to routinely have $250 phone bills. But now, as a reporter who frequently needs to call all over the country, I am [...]
Run a Small Business and Win a Prize!
There isn’t much glory to running a small business. Day after day, you market, sell, hire, fire, economize, mentor, purchase, envision, order, organize, plan, and pay the bills. And nobody notices. Or you win some totally jokey award that doesn’t really mean anything, and nobody notices.
Occasionally, there’s an exception to the grind–a chance for a [...]
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Should Small Businesses Be Allowed to Be Bigger?
For those who don’t read the fine print on the Small Business Administration’s website, the agency has proposed increasing the size definitions for small businesses in 71 business sectors, mostly within retail industries. It’s the first proposed rule change on qualifying size since 1984.
Why should you care? It means bigger businesses would still qualify for SBA [...]
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CIT Bankruptcy: Tightening the Screws on Small Business?
With the filing of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization petition late last week, the parent company of giant small-business lender CIT is hoping for a speedy trip through bankruptcy court. Small businesses that need loans, however, face a more uncertain future.
While the company has assured the public their lending units will operate normally during the bankruptcy [...]
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Can LinkedIn’s Connection Limit Hurt Entrepreneurs?
When contributing writer Carol Tice wrote about the ROI of networking online, comments from readers revealed their uncertainty over the value of sites like Twitter and Facebook. So when LinkedIn–a site specifically designed for networking purposes–changed its user policy to limit the number of connections a person could have to 30,000, Entrepreneur.com investigated its potential [...]
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Can LinkedIn’s Connection Limit Hurt Entrepreneurs?
When contributing writer Carol Tice wrote about the ROI of networking online, comments from readers revealed their uncertainty over the value of sites like Twitter and Facebook. So when LinkedIn–a site specifically designed for networking purposes–changed its user policy to limit the number of connections a person could have to 30,000, Entrepreneur.com investigated its potential [...]
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Tomorrow’s Living-Wage Jobs
Last night I was watching the HBO documentary Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags, which chronicles how Jewish and Italian immigrants created the New York garment district soon after the turn of last century, and built it into the largest employer in the city. It goes on to show how, after more than 70 years of [...]
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Get a Holiday Sales Boost
If you’re a retailer who sells online, and you’d like to give your sales a free, end-of-season boost, you might want to join in on the second annual Free Shipping Day.
Created last December on a whim by Luke Knowles of free-shipping coupon site FreeShipping.org, Free Shipping Day was designed to help retailers on the last day [...]
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Twitter Contest Lets You Pitch VCs
If you’re hoping to connect with venture capital firms to pitch your company story, a new contest may help–but you’ll need to be ready to catch a plane to Seattle.
This year at Northwest Entrepreneur Network’s signature networking event, Entrepreneur University, six lucky companies will get to make [...]
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Shelling Out To Keep Your Business Alive
Entrepreneurs typically have a passion for the business they’ve created. With the economy down, many business owners are facing tough decisions about how to keep their business afloat until sales improve. What would you be willing to do? For instance, would you liquidate personal assets to keep your business alive?
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