photo credit: ol slambert Tim Berrys Bplans: I’ve never taken a negotiation course; not the ones they advertise in magazines, and not one in→

photo credit: lemonjenny Today it is no secret that many people and businesses alike are experiencing higher volumes of debt. Creditors are most likely→

photo credit: Andres Rueda As someone who has had creditors banging on my door in the past, I found this article located on Entrepreneur.com→

photo credit: iBjorn Many businesses today receive some sort of contract that requires a signature to sign the deal. The signature is iron clad,→

Inc.: Most workers that are paid an hourly wage support a proposed increase in the federal minimum wage, even if it results in higher→

Working Solo: Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past few months, you’ve likely heard about the best-selling book, “The Secret,” and→

BusinessWeek Online: Don’t forget the camera on your next vacation. A chance encounter with a celebrity could pay for the trip—and then some. A→

SellingPower.com: After successfully closing a sale, it is only natural to ask for referrals. But have you tried asking for referrals when the customer→

Jerry Osteryoung While more and more businesses are turning to business coaches, they generally go with people they know or with whom they are→

Startup Journal: This year Americans will again set up garage sales and their close cousins, stoop sales, yard sales and tag sales. Gretchen Herrmann,→

Excellent post from Ramit Sethi about the trade off between a present income and future return: What the hell? I think this is where→

Pete Caputa hits on one of the best reasons to employe a salesperson in your small business: The role of a CEO is to→

TEC Online: Few things have more impact on the long-term success of your business than your ability to cut successful deals with customers, vendors,→

Startup Fever: Pitching a VC soon? Make sure you aren’t about to make any of these seven easily avoidable mistakes from David Beisel.

My Audi A4 3.0 car lease expires in a few months. I’m looking around for what I want to get spring 2006. So many→

Work Z: One of the most important and most overlooked pieces of the merchant account puzzle is the merchant agreement. In order to get→

NFIB: Small businesses often require short-term loans to finance the start-up period, uncertain cash-flow times, seasonal purchasing, increased marketing efforts or new ventures. If→

Small Biz Advisor: “The final item on your checklist requires you and your spouse to develop an infrastructure to define the procedures for interconnecting→

Working Knowledge: “Whether negotiators are bidding on a firm, seeking agreement on a compensation package, or bargaining over a used car, someone has to→

Matt Blumberg: Based on the financings I’ve seen and worked on – both as a VC and as an entrepreneur – my Top 10→