I talk with small business people on the phone all the time, and most of them seem absurdly busy, but also very much on top of their time management. Occasionally I hear the tension of near-burnout coming through, and I’m left wondering what the first group is doing differently.

I suspected that I may have [...]

You know you’re supposed to build a customer list, and you’ve even done a great job of creating one and keeping it updated. But knowing the best way to use it is an entirely different story.

Yaro Starak’s Small Business Branding & Marketing blog has a few ideas, all of which, happily, don’t cost anything [...]

Running your own business is hard work.

Sometimes it’s nice to remember that your hard work creates a lot of ancillary benefits, not the least of which is the collective contribution of small businesses to the economy.

The SBA posted a Valentine’s message a few days ago Ten Reasons to Love Small Business that touches [...]