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Social media allows small companies to put the customer referral affect into overdrive. But there definitely are rules of engagement emerging.
So, if your company has anything to do with IBM — whether it is an IBM Business Partner or uses IBM retail systems or servers or whatever — it might want to check out the [...]

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What are you filling your brain with? Jim Donovan joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the importance of being a lifelong learner by reading from sources that will contribute to your personal growth.

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Business Hub offers small business owners all the online applications they need to set-up, manage and grow a successful business, while offering significant time and cost savings. Accounting software, website builder, hosted e-mail, business plans, legal documents, and online training are all available through a single log in and with a single monthly bill.
Small business [...]

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When you take charge of your destiny by becoming entrepreneurs, you are setting yourself up a lifestyle that requires you to wear many hats—like taking on the role of marketer, sales representative, recruiter and human resources representative, and quite often, the receptionist. Some days may force you to wear so many hats that it is [...]

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WHAT: The U.S. Small Business Administration will host a series of webinars in recognition of the sixth annual National Entrepreneurship Week. The emphasis will be on financial empowerment and building the entrepreneurship skills of the next generation of small business owners, using business basics, social networking and business strategizing.
WHEN: February 21-24, 2012, daily at [...]

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Navigating the vast universe of business training courses and picking the right curriculum, at the right cost, can be tougher than it sounds. Classes may be offered in person, by conference call, or online. They cover a wide variety of topics, and while many are free, others can get expensive. Those who choose full-fledged, advanced [...]

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Why SOPA and PIPA Are Bad for Small Business
The House of Representative’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Senate’s Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) have been the subject of extensive online activism in recent weeks, with websites going dark for a day in protest over the bills.
PCWorld
Small-business pessimism hangs around
Three years of poor sales [...]

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