Dan Forrester, IT chief at fiber-optic cable manufacturer Timbercon, knows the value of security. His company is entrusted with sensitive data from its many customers, including the federal government, so an IT breach could mean big, big trouble. Learn how Timbercon secured its systems and has become one of the fastest growing small businesses in [...]

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Start selling more tomorrow. You know that you need marketing help with your business. Maybe it is Internet related. Maybe you need help with hiring, training, or motivating sales staff. Maybe it has to do with needing more traffic, new product ideas, or developing a new niche. In this video, author and marketing consultant, Randy [...]

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Insight from the Experts: How to leverage the power of new social networking tools to really build and leverage social connections.

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How to grow a small business using advertising.

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If you’re a small business doing your own marketing, it can be easy to  — to put it delicately — piss off a reporter and adversely taint the very business aspect, product, or event you’re trying to pitch. There are some ways to insure that you get off on the right foot with the press, [...]

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A company that uses computer simulations to help government and private companies prepare and respond to natural disasters, medical emergencies and combat,  was named this year’s National Small Business of the Year by the Small Business Association.

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Every once in a while it helps to just stop and take a look at your business from a different vantage point. DuctTapeMarketing.com examines five small business-related questions that you should be asking yourself.

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The latest episode of Help! My Business Sucks! (#108) features productivity tips from Dave Crenshaw, help on getting funding to get your new business off the ground, and a big marketing lesson from Hilton Hotels.

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We’ve all done it: drag ass on a project, putting it off time and again, only to throw yourself at it in a frenzy of rabid activity at the last minute. It’s not fun, it often leads to sub-par work, and it is a way of doing work that can be overcome with a few [...]

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The NY Times Small Business Guide has an excellent article up now on various ways you can use Twitter to promote your small business.

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