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Are People Scribbling On Your Dreams?
smallbusinessbrief.com - Every idea or dream starts out on the beautiful canvas of our minds, but how it ends up depends very much on who you choose to share your dream with.

Outsourcing And What You Can Learn From Previous Insourcing Experiences
ezinearticles.com - When dealing with outsourcing, you know how complex it is. So you want best-practices. Unfortunately there aren’t too many around. But isn't there another experience you might learn from?

Five Ways You Could Be Losing Sales (and what to do about it)
businessknowhow.com - The seasonal shoppers are out in force. They're looking in your windows, walking in your doors, and making purchases. Nevertheless you could be losing sales every time a customer walks out the door. Here's why - and what you can do about it.

It's Time For A New Year's Revolution
about.com - No, that's not a typo in the title. Resolutions are easy; most of us make them at least once a year. A revolution, on the other hand, is something you may not have made since you started your small business.

Add a Consumer Element to Your Business Arsenal
smallbusinesscomputing.com - To make the most of the digital photos you shoot for catalogs, brochures, flyers, newsletters and Web pages, you need a software tool that will help fix, edit and enhance pictures. Adobe recently launched Photoshop Elements 4.0, which adds several useful new features that simplify image editing. And while Adobe targets PE primarily at consumers, it makes good sense for many small businesses as well.

Benefits of a Franchise Versus a Solo Operation
startupjournal.com - Is franchising always easier, more efficient and more profitable than running an independent business? StartupJournal.com spoke to current and former franchisees of two concepts about these points -- and received starkly different opinions. The franchise system that works well for one person, it seems, can fail another.

In Your Business, Everyone's a Marketer
marketingprofs.com - Marketing used to be merely one of many disciplines—on an equal footing with sales, finance, HR, manufacturing, operations, engineering or product development. Some might even say some considered it a lesser discipline. Well, that's no longer true! Marketing is increasingly taking over our world—we as as organizations and as individuals.

The MLM Question: Should I Sell Or Should I Recruit?
smallbusinessbrief.com - It is obvious to anyone that the only way to survive in a network marketing situation without MLM is to sell, sell, sell. There's just not any other way for your business to survive. When the MLM component is introduced into a network marketing business, a new set of questions arise.

Your Diamond Mine: The Lifetime Value of Your Customers
smallbusinessbrief.com - Whether you are a business owner, marketing professional, or other entrepreneur, it is crucial to remember your backyard diamonds are your past and present satisfied customers.

Direct Mail Advertising- Email Is Not Like Postal Mail
smallbusinessbrief.com - One of the most popular and potentially effective advertising methods is direct email. If you deliver a well-written message and execute delivery properly you will be rewarded with new leads, sales, and traffic to your Website. If the message is poorly written or you commit a netiquette faux pas, however, your efforts could end in disaster.

Some Basic Tests To Check Your Website For Accessibility
smallbusinessbrief.com - The Disability Discrimination Act says that websites must be made accessible to disabled people. So how can you check that your website is up to par? There are a number of basic tests you can make to address some of the main issues. Webcredible, a web accessibility and usability consultant, suggest a number of guidelines that provide a good start in increasing accessibility to your site visitor

How Many Prospect Do You Really Need?
ducttapemarketing.com - The customer ocean can be a pretty big place to go fishing. So, why not fish in the pond out back instead? Here's what I mean.

Zero Cash, A Little Talent and 30 Days - Day 3
searchengineguide.com - The third day of my shoe-string entrepreneur project started off fairly calm and wrapped up in a whirlwind of craziness. I'm guessing that's pretty common in the world of building a business.

Business Laws: What you Need to Know
businesstoolchest.com - There are a myriad of things you must think about when opening any type of business whether it is a small business or a large corporation and one of those is how business law may affect you.Failure to pay attention to business and corporate law can land you in a world of trouble-both legal and financial.

Ten Tips on Overcoming the Disadvantages of a Home-Based Business
allbusiness.com - Here are 10 tips for minimizing the disadvantages and stressors of working at home.

Building And Managing An Opt In List For A Website
ezinearticles.com - Building and managing an opt in list for a website provides a seller direct access to a wide number of potential customers. Building and managing an opt in list makes use of a system that makes it possible for website visitors to fill up an online form in order to sign up for the latest products and services offered by an online site.

Are You Copying the Competition?
msn.com - Like your competitor's ideas? Our branding expert explains the fine line between inspiration and imitation.

Holiday gift ideas for the entrepreneurs on your list
usatoday.com - Looking for a gift for the entrepreneur on your holiday list? Putting together your own holiday wish list?

7 Habits of Business Success
about.com - The elusive dream of business success captures the imagination of aspiring and existing business owners everywhere. A vision of flowing profits, industry respect, thrilled customers, and a balanced life. This vision is only possible by developing habits that drive business success. Take the time to learn the 7 habits of business success.

You Make the Call — Vote for the Best of the Year
smallbusinesscomputing.com - No product or service can transform an ill-fated business into an overnight success story. However, if you have a sound business model and a passion for what you do, the right hardware, software and services can help you operate more efficiently, more securely and even more profitably.

Marketing Challenge: Warming up Cold Calls
marketingprofs.com - In most of the US, the winter weather outside is frightful, but that's no reason for cold calls to feel the same way. Small business personnel typically do multiple jobs, and sometimes they get stuck doing something that's not comfortable, like cold calling.

Zero Cash, A Little Talent and 30 Days - Day 2
searchengineguide.com - Day two is when I really started to appreciate the amount of work that goes into starting up a business as a side project. Add in the zero cash bit and you start to see that it takes some true creativity to get something rolling.

How to Build Your Business Credit Profile
allbusiness.com - You can start building your business credit even before opening your doors for business. Your first step, if possible, is to establish your business as a separate entity in order to separate your business credit profile from your personal credit profile. This means you want your business to be structured as a corporation (a Limited Liability Company, or LLC, is most common for small businesses).

What Can You Do About Spam?
ezinearticles.com - There are some things that you can do to make your online experience a little bit easier. There are some ways to keep spam from ruining your day. Spam filters are one of those things.

Email Segmentation 101 - Things To Segment Your Email Campaigns By
emailuniverse.com - Competition for the attention of your email newsletter subscribers or permission-based email marketing campaign members is rising. To increase the relevancy, deliver more value via email, *AND* increase your sales -- now is the perfect time to begin doing more email segmentation campaigns.

8 Perpetually Hot Businesses
msn.com - Eight of our businesses from 2005's Hot List--pet products and services, and medi-spas, to name a few--are still seeing record growth. One year later, here's another look at these continually hot businesses. We've got updated stats and the latest trends to help you decide if these are the industries for you.

Being an artist doesn't mean starving
usatoday.com - Starting a business, any sort of business, is never easy, but certainly one prerequisite is that the business be based on something that you enjoy doing, because if it works, you will be fortunate enough to get to do it all day, every day. So an artist starting a business based on their art makes a lot of sense.

5 Year-end Small Business Tax Tips
about.com - As the holidays quickly approach it's hardly a time to think about small business taxes. But a quick look at these year-end tax tips for small business can pay big dividends for 2006.

A Fresh New Look for Quickbooks
smallbusinesscomputing.com - After years of improvements, modifications and tweaks, there doesn't seem to be much about QuickBooks that needs improvement. But every year, like clockwork, Intuit releases a "latest and greatest" version, and this year is no different.

NFIB Hails U.S. House Vote to Extend Small-Business Tax Cuts
nfib.comThe National Federation of Independent Business, the nation's largest small-business advocacy group, today praised passage of tax-cut legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives containing badly needed provisions for the nation's small firms. The bill, H.R. 4297, the Tax Relief Extension Reconciliation Act of 2005, was a "key vote" for NFIB members and passed the House 234-197.

How They Got Started In the Restaurant Biz
startupjournal.com - Owning a restaurant is capital-intensive, labor-intensive hard work. To show just how difficult the process is, we spoke to three people -- a multi-unit franchisee, a franchiser and a would-be owner -- we'd met at the Restaurant Finance and Development Conference in Las Vegas and asked them to share their stories.

How To Acheive Your Full Potential
smallbusinessbrief.com - If you want to make more of your talents - live up to your full potential - you have to learn to use them. You have the power to change your habits - to acquire new skills and fully use the skills you now have. You can improve your performance, your productivity, and the quality of your whole life.

Which Comes First….the Chicken or the Egg?
smallbusinessbrief.com - This age old question applies to those would be entrepreneurs who want to start a home business. How does it apply? Let me give you some examples.

Pet Industry Trends for 2006
smallbiztrends.com - The 2006 economics for small businesses will be affected by an unabated increase in pet-related spending, focusing on improving pet health and trading up to quality for pet accessories and food.

2005 Holiday E-Shopping Exceeds Last Year's
clickz.com - Consumers are increasingly going online this holiday season. Data from Nielsen//NetRatings's Holiday eShopping Index shows a 33 percent increase over last year.

How Customer Opinions Can Improve Your eBay Business
auctionbytes.com - In my quest to find out the true extent of the Mark O'Neill fan club, I have taken customer feedback to a whole new level: online customer surveys

The No. 1 Key to Closing the Sale
entrepreneur.com - Want to know the secret to getting your customers to buy? It's simple--just ask!

A New Breed in the Computer Biz
businessweek.com - For the first time in years, hardware startups are trying to break into the market. Their gambit: Inexpensive special-purpose machines

Local Vs Remote Data Backup - The Pros And Cons
smallbusinessbrief.com - Backing up your data should be an essential part of your daily routine. Unfortunately for many businesses this simply isn't the case. The only time data backup crosses their mind is when they have a hard disk crash or a serious spyware or virus infection. Unfortunately by this stage it's already too late to do anything about it - the data is gone and you're then looking at several hundred, if not several thousand, dollars to have the data rescued and restored.