A few days ago Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends participated as a panelist for the webinar, “Small Business, Big Wins: Innovative Tools to Drive Your Business Forward”.  Anita and co-panelist Barbara Corcoran, who you may have seen on the television show Shark Tank, discussed smart business strategies for getting ahead. Both Anita and Barbara [...]

The success of a small business relies on how the entrepreneurs manage and operate the business. There are a lot of people starting a small business everyday, but because of the lack of knowledge, they end up with an empty pocket. It is critical that one must consider how the business should operate. As a [...]

Do you have it backwards when it comes to Facebook? Here’s what no one in the social media space seems to want to say: Facebook is a difficult place to reach new eyeballs organically if you do not already have good brand awareness. There I said it. If you are trying to use Facebook to [...]

LinkedIn members who are also members of HP’s LinkedIn Group, Small Biz Nation, are invited to participate in their latest contest.  As mentioned on Smallbiztechnology.com, HP wants to hear about your successful marketing efforts. All you need to do is tell them your marketing story and what made it an actual success. You do need [...]

Popular trends and fads seam to change with the wind. And that even goes for trends in small business. You blink and one thing is out while something new is in.  To help you make heads or tails out of what the latest trend in business is this year, Anita Campbell gives us 10 ideas [...]

With the recent financial crisis showing signs of clearing up, many small businesses are now looking to fortify their fortunes and make up for the losses they suffered over the past two years. While some find success an uphill climb, others seem to be able to breeze through the process simply because they know what [...]

Increasingly, it’s getting harder and harder to find sites willing to give you high-quality SEO links. Instead, most web sites today will only give you links that are blocked using a NoFollow tag. The NoFollow tag tells Google NOT to consider your link in their ranking algorithm. Even though you may get referral traffic from [...]

A week ago, I had an opportunity to hear an economic update from a Federal Reserve Bank economist. While the numbers are far from fabulous, most seem to agree we are on the road out of recession. Have you reduced employee counts and canceled or delayed capital projects? Do you lack the bench strength and [...]

The commercial cleaning industry is a tough business to get started in. There’s a lot of competition for very few clients, and the work is incredibly hard & unglamorous. But if you stick with it for a long time, you’ll find that it can be a very rewarding career. Although most of our business now [...]