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• Forza Motorsport 3 游戏截图预览 • Sony's E3 Keynote Liveblog Now • 评论: 与其"召回"，不如卸载 • 云计算亟需确立新标准 确保用户安全需求 • James Cameron's Avatar: The Game • Bing vs. Google face-off, round 2 • Mayor Newsom Announces Innovative New Tool to Access City Services with a 'Tweet' • W...

Free Guide to Social Media for Small Business

A Facebook friend of mine, Anita Campbell, pointed me toward a new free guide to social media for Small Business . The book is "Let's Talk: Social Media for Small Business," by John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing. I just finished reading it and recommend you check it out. The guid...

38 款企业购物的在线资源

...com • GoEmerchant.com • Merchandizer.com • NetworkSolutions.com • SmallBusiness.Yahoo.com • StoreFront.net • Stores.eBay.com 【自助式】 • CubeCart • Ecommerce Shopping Cart Software • I...

20 余款面向发明家的工具与资源

【社会化网络】 • Incuby • IdeaWicket • IdeaTango • InventTube • In.ventors 【灵感记录】 • EverNote • Jott • Wridea 【实用工具】 • Google Docs & Spreadsheets • Zoho DB • Gimp 【版权、专利等】 • U.S. Patent & Trademark Office • U.S.Copyright Office • Search Patents or Trademarks • ...

Office Live Small Business 已经有 100 万用户

微软 日前宣布 ，Office Live Small Business 已经拥有 100 万用户。Office Live Small Business 目前还处于测试期，专门面向小型企业提供的免费的企业级在线应用，包括免费提供网站建设、域名以及 100 个邮件地址，还有在线存储空间等各类电子商务工具。 以下是官方的新闻稿：

No SOX relief in sight

For the fifth time, the Securities and Exchange Commission has decided to give smaller companies another year stay of grace before complying with the audit requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley. But don't take that as a sign that the lawmakers will start rolling SOX back. The smart money is on t...

Bizinformer Added to Alltop.com

...lltop.com before. It is a site that amalgamates blogs on one site divided into simple categories. Smallbusiness.alltop.com is a collection of small business blogs (some of which I have linked to in...

All of Your Business Blogs in One Place

John Jantsch at Duct Tape Marketing points out today that alltop.com has added a small business category. Of course, I saw his blog after spending significant time trying to force NewsGator to play well with my Outlook setup so that I could have all of my small business blog feeds all...

Office Live Small Business 推出新工具和服务

微软近日宣布推出了其 Office Live Small Business 的第二个版本，Office Live Small Business 是针对小型企业的在线网站管理和创建工具服务。 根据微软的官方新闻稿 ："美国大约一半的小型企业（少于 10 名员工）没有网站"。而 Office Live 两年前推出，现在全球已经有 60 万客户了，包括在美国、英国、法国、德国和日本。 新版本的 Office Live Small Business 包括大量的新功能和改进，最值得一提的是，新版本的 Office Live Small Business 已经取消了原有的 ...

Lessons to be learned

There is a great article in the New York Times about specialty shoe stores and how things are beginning to change in the marketplace. While I have said before that the newspaper takes the most pessimistic approach to sell the newspaper it does have some important things to keep in mind. Firs...

Furrow Vineyard & Winery To Close

The wine business is a tough one. It is hard enough when your winery is in an area that is well-know for wine such as California or Washington. I think it must be even harder when you're a small winery in the Midwest. Furrow Vineyard & Winery in El Paso, Illinois can attest to that. Unf...

Bootstrapping network

Bootstrapping is networking...or networking is bootstrapping . Either way you look at it, building a business without outside investment requires another method of gathering the resources you need. Certainly sales itself, a big part of what every entrepreneur must specialize in, involves p...

Blogging for Business

Are you blogging yet? I have already mentioned blogging in a few entries and now here is an article from the New York Times that discusses blogging for your business. Blogging is an excellent way to keep your customers up to date on what is happening in your business and to make you a littl...

Small is better...

The New York Times has an article about how some small retailers are seeing their size as a selling point. In today's marketplace you need to have your own niche. That niche is what will give you an advantage over the big retailers. You can carry items that would not be carried in bigger s...

Start Up Advice

How prepared are you to start your small business? An Enthusiast Entrepreneur Kicks Off a T-Shirt Business is an article from the New York Times that shows how one woman is starting a t-shirt business and asks some experts to evaluate how she is doing and what she should be doing from here. ...

Can bootstrapping combat recession?

Kevin Koym at Exponential Entrepreneur suggests that bootstrapping through leveraging social capital may be a great remedy for coming recession . While I'm not sure I share Kevin's enthusiasm for government funding benefiting small business versus big business in the future (...

Get Help at SCORE

Are you familiar with SCORE ? SCORE works with the small business administration and has retired executives volunteer to help small businesses. From the New York Times comes the article: Starting a Small Business which talks about what SCORE is and what it is designed to do. Starting...

Bootstrap the turkey with the turkey

Here's a little holiday story about a man who did something extraordinary. A friend of mine runs a family turkey farm raising the same old ordinary turkeys his father had before him. One day he read a newspaper article about the dangers of feeding animal byproducts to livestock and immed...

Contact Software...

Keeping Up With Customers: A Phone List Is So Yesterday How are you going to keep up with your customers? This article from the New York Times goes over many of the software programs that are available for keeping track of your customers including the Outlook plus other premium software p...

Growing your business...

More Than One Way to Help a Business Grow Here is a good article from the New York Times. There are several resources here to help grow your business plus several simple ideas in order to bring in more revenue. Getting more revenue from your current customers is one of the easiest. T...

Small Businesses Stronger

What Economic Slowdown? Small Businesses Grow Stronger Here is a great article for those worrying about the economic slowdown that is being predicted. I have said several times in this blog that as a small business owner you have an opportunity to react to situations faster than the big c...

Bakery Goes Green...

Green Grocers (and Bakeries) Here is another excellent story on a business that has gone Green . This article goes into some of savings you can get by having a green operation. Once again this is another opportunity to beat the big boys as they can be slow to adapt. Another idea mentioned ...

Entrepreneurship Education...

The Right Places to Learn Entrepreneurship For those looking to go to school for Entrepreneurship, this article will show you will find more opportunities than you would a few years ago. When I was first looking to attend a college with a strong entrepreneurship program I was living in...

Women Turn a Battle Into...

New Ventures Help Fight the Frustrations of Fighting Breast Cancer You have to love the story of people who have taken a tragic situation and turned it around into something inspirational. Here is a group of women that have faced the battle of cancer and used that experience to their benefit. ...

PostRanger aids bootstrap marketing

So you own a blog or other website and are trying to increase its traffic and its ranking with search engines. Well, you could pay for a sponsored search on Yahoo! to take you to the top of the page on searches for your particular product or service or become a Google customer and purchase c...

Four keys to bootstrapping success

An article on bootstrapping in a March 2006 issue of U.S. News & World Report suggests these four keys to bootstrapping success after conversations with such veterans as RightNow Technologies founder Greg Gianforte and Austin-based entrepreneur Bijoy Goswami. Here's an overv...

Is Thank You a Dying Concept?

In this age of entitlement, have we lost the art of saying "thank you?" As a child when I'd receive a gift I was not allowed to wear it or play it or play with it until I'd written a thank you note. I remember what seemed like hours of tedious labor, hand writing a thank you me...

A word to the bootstrapper

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Link: Cristian Dorobantescu Now, on the other hand, if you are bootstrapping , you don't have any other choice than investing some of your own money into the business. That's how we started. But from day one, try your best to have a separate business ...

Count your lucky stars you have a wireless office

This commercial makes fun of the serious problem of being tied to a "wired office". Aren't you glad you have a wireless office? From Microsoft we also find " 6 tips for making a wired office wireless-friendly ". According to industry studies, today's professionals ...

Writing business plans

...hrases that might help you in digging for information on the Squidoo site: business plan, business, smallbusiness, business plan pro, small business plan, sample business plan, businessplan, marketing...

Yahoo! tools give more options to the bootstrap retailer

So, you want to start a retail business, but you're mindful of bootstrapping principles . You would prefer to get some kind of cash flow going before you start spending on things like store front real estate, whether rented or purchased. But how can a retailer get started selling a prod...

Austin, Texas Home Business Zoning Laws

Jacci Howard Bear About.com's guide to austin texas shared the city's zoning laws to help ensure that those who are planning to put up a home based business in Austin would avoid legal problems: The home occupation must be conducted entirely within a dwelling unit which is the bo...

GSeeker Reading List（2007.03.26）

　　 GSeeker Reading List 是一个推荐阅读列表，我会把我每天阅读过的觉得有价值而我自己又没时间写进blog里的一些文章加进这里，希望大家能了解更多与Google相关的消息。这个列表在当天可能会有数次更新。 * KML and GeoRSS Support Added to the Google Maps API Google Maps API正式添加了对KML及GeoRSS的支持，使得Google Maps mashup的玩法再次得到丰富。 * Google Docs to Add Support for Wikis Google早前收购的wiki产品Jo...

Irrepressible Entrepreneurs: Economic Impact of Immigrant Entrepreneurs

What opportunities do these entrepreneurs pursue? Is there a difference in the type of businesses they form? Are they more vigorous and energetic? In New York City, immigrants made up 36 percent the population, yet they accounted for nearly half, or 49 percent, of all self-employed wor...

Only 3% Grow to 100 Employees

A study of over 800 business owners, carried out by research company YouGov , aimed to examine and understand why only three per cent of UK businesses ever grow to more than 100 employees. The project concluded that the growth of a company was considerably harder to achieve than starting a bu...

Financing with Equity or Debt

Advantages of Borrowing: The main advantage of borrowing money is that, while the lender will charge you interest for using the money, the lender won't have any say in how you run or manage your business. More importantly, a lender won't be entitled to any of the profits you make;...

Sponsored Post: How Business Owners Compete

D & B Canada has small business research available. Today we have insight into how small business owners compete in the marketplace. "My best advice for competing successfully is to find your own distinctive niche in the marketplace. It could be price, or variety, or service . . . w...

Instant Messaging (IM) in Business

Gartner Group believes that 50 per cent of all business-to-client communication in 2007 will take place on IM. Is that true in your business? IM offers genuine business benefits such as improved productivity and collaboration, it's truly 'instant' and it can save on bandwidth consump...

Gen Y: These Young People Know What They Want

Struggling to hire 17-29 year olds (echo boomers)? Business owners and entrepreneurs better wake up and smell the coffee, times have changed and the youth of today do not think like you would expect. If this post hits the baby boomers where it hurts, so be it, but these kids are not only savv...

Email 订阅 RSS 服务简单评价

- Email 订阅 RSS 服务简单评价 - Yahoo's Brad Garlinghouse Makes His Power Move - SafariSpeed 2 - WP-Plugin: Snap Preview Anywhere - Snap Preview Anywhere - Poll: Xbox360 vs. PS3 vs. Wii - 3D Nvidia Linux driver under development - Google TechTalks

Home Business Tax Deductions

As at-home entrepreneurship and telecommuting becomes more and more popular and beneficial to many, the government just keeps on making it a lot easier and fun for more people to jump in the bandwagon. One of these is tax deductions for those who operate home offices such as engineering and cons...

Startup Business Resources

...out the workshop writing an effective business plan at Canada One. Here is some good advice from smallbusiness-start.com Unfortunately, they do not say who the author is nor is there not any type o...

Work.com: 针对小型企业的服务

这是我们执行主编 Anita 带来的信息 ，Anita 对于此则消息用了一个很有意味的副标题："Web 2.0 Influence Evident"。 现今，小型企业所有者及管理者比以往更多地通过网络使用免费的资源辅助工具。一些网站服务与资源的应用能够帮助企业家持续保持优良的业绩，可以说在西方 Web 2.0 已经带来了一场革命。

Thinking Franchise? Start Here First

Franchising is big business. Like any growing industry it can attract players that really have no proven model [read: no good reason to be selling a franchise in the first place]. That is not to say that buying a franchise is a bad idea, just make sure you know the truth before you lay ...

The Graying Entrepreneur Is Not Old

Insights into selling and advertising to the affluent, mobile and powerful baby boomer generation by Anita Campbell titled " But I am Not OLD! Selling to the Graying Entrepreneur " really is not what you might think. 1) Use words, images and vignettes in ads and marketing materials...

7/31/06 Carnival of the Capitalists

The latest Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Selling to Small Business . Be sure to check it out for some great business blog posts. I found lots of good stuff in this edition, and the quality seems to be a little above normal this week. If you want more information about the carnival, or wo...

Do women make better managers?

Source: Microsoft Small Business Center Nearly 11 million privately held companies are now majority-owned (50% stake or greater) by women, according to the Center for Women Business Research, based in Washington, D.C. That accounts for nearly half (47.7%) of all private companies in the...

Government Compliance Hurts Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs

Federal regulations are a good thing. Sort of. Some laws help prevent discrimination and worker abuse, and make work places safe for everyone. But many laws cause more pain than good, and actually hurt workers by raising the cost of doing business, which indirectly affects their wages. ...

Business Legal Structures: 5 Important Factors to Consider

What kind of legal structure is right for your business? Sole proprietorship? Limited liability company? C-corporation? Partnership? Does it matter that much anyway? Well, in some ways, which structure you choose is a bit of a crapshoot. You have to make an informed decision, but as your b...

Patent Protection

J. Douglas Miller in the " Small Business IP Protection and Management" blog tells us about a new program for small business owners from the US Patent and Trademark Office . The USPTO says that: "This program is designed to educate small business owners about the increa...

Host Your Movable Type Blog on Yahoo!

Six Apart and Yahoo! team up to go head-to-head with Google's Blogger. However, instead of focusing on the consumer, like Blogger does so well, Yahoo! is choosing to capture the small business market with Movable Type as their platform. Since 360 wasn't a rousing success (though it s...

Yahoo! Domains 恢复注册

Domain Name Registration from Yahoo! Small Business 又开始恢复注册，费用是$2.99一年。 The most popular domain name extensions (.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, .us) 　 24-hour toll-free customer support 　 Domain name registration terms from 1-5 years 　 Easy-to-use control panel with DNS management 　 Dom...

A Lot Of Options, No Clear Answer For Us All - Retirement Planning

If you're self-employed like me, retirement planning can be a maze of acronyms and confusing financial and legal jargon. There are not right or wrong answers to establishing a retirement plan for a small business, just a whole lot of options and tradeoffs. Forbes .com offers a grea...

It's All In The Family

Many small businesses are family affairs. Mom, dad, brother, sister, son, daughter - they're all there. Sometimes the family pet gets in on the action as well. It can be a wonderful experience and a true win-win for all involved. Or it can be a fight waiting to happen...especially if you...

What Is Your Opinion On PR?

There's an interesting discussion on PR at the Revenue Roundtable . Here's a sample of what's going on: Susan Getgood - Public Relations ROI. Fact or Oxymoron? To not waste time, I'll tell you my opinion right up front. I believe PR works and can be one of the most effective...

About me

A much wiser man than I once proclaimed to truly understand a person and their motivation you must first understand their experiences; it's your experiences and lessons learned in life that shape your opinion, determination, goals, judgment, outlook, and reactions to adversity. Following are ...

Outsourcing networking?

I just had the pleasure to meet with Auren Hoffman - serial entrepreneur and full of new ideas. His latest venture Stonebrick Group has a interesting new offering - it takes over sales, marketing and networking (!) for you : "Some of Hoffman's clients employ him to meet peopl...

AdWords and Overture Are Not the Only PPC Opportunities

Boris Mordkovich has written an interesting article in WebProNews. The BASIC idea here is to make a case to try out the other PPC search engines. Some of these are: SearchFeed, Enhance, Kanoodle, 7Search, PageSeeker, Search123. Happy experimenting!

Small Business Tips

Forbes has a nice article about how to be your own boss . Jeff Cornwall , one of my favorite bloggers, was quoted in the article, so you know it is worthwhile reading.

Size Doesn't Matter

Every industry is different, but for many small businesses, size can be a problem not a solution. Many a small business has suffered from growing too quickly. From a cash flow perspective, rapid growth can actually cause a small company to keep money so tied up in producing product that they can'...

The Hot New Business of... Lacrosse?

You probably think this post title is a joke, but it isn't, according to this recent article in Fortune Small Business. Shortly after taking over the struggling National Lacrosse League three years ago, Jim Jennings drove to Philadelphia to watch what would be only the second live lacrosse...

Minority Entrepreneurship

Fortune has a section on minority entrepreneurs . There are eight short articles, each dealing with a different small business owner. I love stories like these. Someone should Compile them into a book -- "Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur's Soul."

Letting Go Without Losing Control

Letting go of the details can be a difficult thing for a boss to do. This article gives some good tips on delegating, and making that to-do list a bit shorter. It's easy to understand your need for control. Being a perfectionist is virtually an entrepreneur's job description. But if you ...

Bill Gates on Business Success

Fortune has a nice interview with Bill Gates. The thing I found most interesting is this anaylsis of why Microsoft was successful. We had three things that really worked for us. One was our vision, which has not changed since the day the company started. Microsoft was a dream [co-founder] Paul...

Campus Startups

Fortune magazine has an interesting list of companies started while the founders were in college. Sure we've all heard of some of these stories, but Pizza Hut, Subway, and kinkos were surprises to me.

Fortune's "Brief History of Management"

This is interesting. After almost a century of crazes, what we still don't know about management could fill more books than Stephen Covey. Art Kleiner, author of Who Really Matters: The Core Group Theory of Power, Privilege, and Success, paraphrases Elliot Jaques, the controversial academic:...

How They Got Started

I love stuff like this . It is what makes America great. Ever wonder how Hefner came up with the idea for Playboy? What inspired Kate and Andy Spade to start a handbag business? In the case of Hef, who says he had always had an interest in publishing, the idea came from movie and pin-up pi...

The 99 Cent Strategy

Dave Gold is amazing. He started a store where everything is 99 cents. No big news there, but his margins average 40%, which is, to be honest, amazing . Here's where the idea came from: As a kid, Dave gold worked at his parents' grocery store in Cleveland, and later he and his si...

Green Entrepreneurship

Everything has it's time. Entrepreneurs are now making environmental friendliness pay off. After years--in some cases, decades--of searching, businesspeople have finally discovered the existence of a green market. And it is growing, in some sectors phenomenally. Sales of organic foods are in...