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Victoria Tifft of Ohio’s Clinical Research Management Inc. takes the top SBA prize.
After years of studying and lecturing at Georgetown, the pair were ready to get their “hands a little dirty.”
Interactive Achievement provides online testing software to help educators analyze and track student performance on state benchmarks.
Janet Amirault recovered from a stroke to become one of the top business owners in Maryland.
Congress is considering a measure calling for every employer to use the federal government’s E-Verify system to check the citizenship status of all applicants and staff. So what would that mean for small firms?
California and New York churn out plenty of technology start-ups, but they apparently aren’t so welcoming to mom-and-pop shops.
During a hearing in the House, a pair of small business owners explained how increasing fuel prices are hammering their bottom lines.
Slow sales are still the most oft-cited challenge, but there’s a new thorn in the side of young businesses.
Living Social and Chase have teamed up to offer $250,000 grants to each of up to a dozen small firms across the country.
Start-ups are wising up to the value that patents confer on young companies, especially in light of a rule switch that will favor the first one to the patent office.
Should workers be limited in what they can say online?
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Google’s social network has a long way to go before it has the same following as Facebook, but it does offer services like “hangouts,” or 10-way video chats. How can a business use hangouts to connect with customers?
Some communities on Twitter have started holding regular “chats” by tweeting at each other using hash tags. But are these e-meetings useful?
The picture-posting social network is adding users at an astounding pace — how can businesses capitalize on the boom?
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Usually, people couldn’t care less about your products’ features. What they care about is your company’s story.
Business owners often manage their companies under the notion that the future will closely resemble the past. It’s time to ditch that logic.
Now and then, you have to step away from the action and take a big-picture look at the direction of your business.
Companies sometimes divulge information on their social networking pages that provide insights into their priorities.
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Small business owners don’t necessarily have to work any harder when it comes to social media – they just have to work smarter.
Eventually, you have to reach outside the office. But an internal audit should be the first step when building a brand.
Burger King’s copy-cat strategy could harm more brands than its own, highlighting an important branding lesson to business owners everywhere.
Many married couples often fall into a few common pitfalls when they go into business together, such as having mis-matched goals
Faced with $5.1 billion in budgetary losses, the U.S. Postal Service has proposed closing thousands of post offices and half of mail processing centers, among other changes. How would those cuts impact small businesses?
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