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• How To Be A Better Social Networker Offline

  Last week I was lucky enough to stumble upon Ben Parr’s post over at the AMEX Open Forum about how to become a savvier networker online. In his post, Ben shares some great tips for how to get and keep the attention of influencers. But not all your social networking takes place online. And it’s

• Entrepreneurial Job Creation Statistics are an Economic Rorschach Test

  Who creates more jobs – young firms or old firms? This is an important question today as policy makers allocate resources to try to reduce high levels of unemployment in this country. Writing in the Creative Class blog, Professor Zoltan Acs of George Mason University said that there are two stori

• Buying A Franchise With A Well-Known Brand Doesn’t Guarantee Success

  I know that lots of people go into franchise ownership because they feel that they can piggyback on an established brand, thereby increasing their chances of success. That’s certainly logical thinking. But sometimes, business defies logic.For instance, take a look at the SBA’s loan defau

• Small Business News: We Need You

  We need you, small business owners and entrepreneurs. To start new businesses and create new jobs. To drag us out of this long recession and into new prosperity with new ideas and new vision. In fact, there are some things we all could do to help so that small business can do what they do best, crea

• Do You Blog With The Comments On?

  It’s a timeless debate: When you start a blog do you turn comments on to get a discussion going or do you keep them off so you don’t have to moderate them? Personally, I’ve always believed that your small business blog needs comments. As a blogger and community person, I enjoy sharing and read