Angela Maiers recently gave me and several others who inspire her a virtual pat on the back, so now I’m sharing my virtual pats on the back with those who have inspired and helped me out recently. These are as many folks I could think of that listened t...

Yahoo! has launched its own analytics tool, promising real-time reports to 13,000 small business customers, with a further role out in 2009. Following its acquisition of IndexTools earlier this year, the search engine pledges to make visitor analysis avai...

...e of PR. There’s no “and” in Brand. YES, YES, YES! From Andy Sernovitz. Some related thoughts I wrote at the Small Business Branding blog a while back, on Identity [...]...

Tomorrow I’ll be joining the Small Business Guru Melody Campbell on the Get More Business show, to talk about how to build community and traffic for your blog. Date: Friday October 10th Time: 11 AM Central Location and details: Get More Business show Ho...

This blog post is in response to a Wall Street Journal article from Monday, August 11, 2008 For those of you with a small business and no website, reading this WSJ article needs to go on the weekend “To Do” list. Even if you choose to have a c...

Let me guess, when it comes to your small business, you hate selling. Just the idea of it makes your stomach turn a bit. It seems dishonest and dirty. And you’ve convinced yourself that it’s pretty much unnecessary to sell. Somehow you can get...

Yesterday Office Depot announced the launch a new office equipment and furniture leasing option for small business customers in North America. The new SmartWayLeasing service, which is provided in partnership with ThinkSmart (a specialist international le...

Yesterday, I was scanning The New York Times online when I came across an interesting article in the Small Business section ‘Building Companies the Women’s Way’ by journalist Marci Alobher. This article not only shares one woman’s ...