Lisa Barone at Small Business Trends highlights two big problems with Google’s local business listings – including how competitors can hijack your listing. Many small business owners and those that work with them began receiving emails about their local business results for the month of November. The emails contained information about where the business ranked […]
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If you want to succeed in business then you will need your potential customers to know that you exist. If they don’t know you are there, how can you expect them to buy from you? Connie Edwards at the Savannah Morning News shares her list of things that every small business should consider. Advertising How
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Unfazed by the trend toward e-everything, Maureen Stern is defiantly selling a product made of dead trees. And in launching Canadian Capers, her own line of greeting cards, the 52-year-old Montrealer is not intimidated by Hallmark or the other titans of the industry, according to a story in The Gazette. After moving down from the
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Communal lending pools known as cestas help aspiring business owners in Latino communities, and banks are beginning to partner with them to help the informal borrowers establish credit, Paul van Slambrouck reports in the Christian Science Monitor. Eight members strong, the Champions have come together in an upstairs office in this city’s predominantly Latino Mission
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Photo by airtechrefrigeration.com. WalletPop reports that operating a new catering company or food-related business is difficult to do from home, so the concept of shared kitchens is compelling. Rent space or buy a membership to a shared facility, and a budding chef gets access to commercial equipment in a sanitary space. In many locales, it’s
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Richard Greenwald, writing in the WSJ, outlines five keys to success for freelancers. The image of the freelancer is too often that of the struggling journalist or writer, who needs to wait tables to pay the rent. No doubt there are many such examples still out there. But there also are plenty of consultants and
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When Inaki Berenguer moved from Boston to New York to start Pixable, a company that prints photo albums from Facebook pictures, he wasn’t sure if he wanted to take the chance on hiring a full-time employee. Realizing the odds for a nascent start-up staking claim in an economy that’s still rickety at best, he decided
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When writing out your 2010 list of business resolutions, AOL Small Business says make sure to include a mobile-friendly Web presence. Here are three ways to get your act together: 1. Hire a Designer Not every small business needs to go out and drop a fistful of Gs on a mobile site, but for some
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If you watch TV, you’ve seen the ad. Domino’s chefs are experimenting with a matrix of combinations of cheese, dough and spices — anything to counter some of the negative criticism that’s come their way. Domino’s reads some actual customer quotes, which are designed to make any television viewer’s eyebrows lurch upward: “Domino’s pizza crust,
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Gina Trapani over at Fast Company has an interesting solution to your email overload. How many messages are in your email inbox right now? A few dozen? It’s probably more like a few hundred, or even a few thousand. We all get too much email. Getting through all those messages every day isn’t easy. Certain
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