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Small Biz Survival


Business school for bloggers and entrepreneurs

If a blog is part (or all) of your business strategy, go to SOBCon '08.If you want your blog to become part of your business strategy, join me at SOBCon.If your blog is an important part of your...

Started in Small Biz Survival • 6 months ago • 0 responses
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Can you be self employed AND on Social Security?

A reader arrived at Small Biz Survival with this search query:"I want to start a home business, but I'm on Social Security. Can I still be self employed?" This sounds like a good addition to the...

Started in Small Biz Survival • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: tax matters, small biz 100
Resource: Sparkplugging and a rebranding story

Our friend Wendy Piersall is now CEO of Sparkplugging:: Thinking Big in the New Work at Home Generation. Sparkplugging is a complete rebranding of eMoms at Home. The new brand makes it clear that...

Started in Small Biz Survival • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: resources, entrepreneurship, marketing
Small Biz 100 reaches 10

Our Small Biz 100 series, designed to give you 100 useful hands-on business basics posts, has reached 10 posts.And I have two requests of you.1. What other small business topics do you want to see me...

Started in Small Biz Survival • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Small Biz 100 turns 10

Our Small Biz 100 series, designed to give you 100 useful hands-on business basics posts, is turning 10.And I have two requests of you.1. What other small business topics do you want to see me cover?...

Started in Small Biz Survival • 6 months ago • 0 responses
You're a small biz superhero, so enter the contest

Our friend Michelle Riggen-Ransom sent me an email about a nifty small business contest:I wanted to let you know about our Small Business Super Hero contest that we're running in honor of National...

Started in Small Biz Survival • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tony explains the Brag Basket

New friend from SXSW, Tony Katz, president and founder of Aweli.com, left some comments in our brag basket that explain why we do it, better than we ever have explained it before.Ok, here's my brag....

Started in Small Biz Survival • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: brag basket
Small Biz Survival: Small town advantages

Running a small business is tough enough. But if you're running a small business in a small town, there's a secret you need to know... it's more fun than being in the big city! You don't believe...

Started in Small Biz Survival • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: video, entrepreneurship, rural
When you fail to let customers know

Common small business mistakes have become a regular series here! This week, we've got another local example you can learn from.The pizza place is closed??!Tried to call for pizza the other day, but...

Started in Small Biz Survival • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: mistakes
10 ways out of a crunch without hiring employees

As your business starts to take off, you'll hit a time when you have more work than you can do, but not so much that you are ready (or can afford) to hire an employee. How can you handle the crunch?...

Started in Small Biz Survival • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: small biz 100, workforce