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Quick Link: Publicizing Your Home Business

June 2, 2011

When starting a business, you know that gaining exposure is key to building a strong client base and encouraging growth. While working from home certainly has its benefits, one drawback is that it can be a little harder to get the same exposure that brick-and-mortar stores or larger online entities enjoy. Here is an article [...]

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The Small Business Credit Card Secret You Should Know

May 24, 2011

Like most small business owners, you probably have a credit card issued in your business name that you use solely for business-related expenses. You shopped around, found a great interest rate or rewards program, and you use it sparingly. Used wisely, a small business credit card can help your business operate successfully. But there is [...]

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3 Strategies for Turning Your Small Business Around

May 23, 2011

In this uncertain economic climate, it’s not unusual to find your business in a slump. Slower business and hiccups in your cash-flow can leave any small business owner feeling discouraged. But before you throw in the towel, check out these 3 strategies from Entrepreneur.com to help your small business stage a comeback. We’d also like [...]

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3 Ways to Cut Credit Card Payment Processing Fees

May 20, 2011

For many small business owners, the fees charged by credit card companies to process transactions are the bane of their existence. The fees can vary depending on the processor you use, the type of card submitted, and the type of transaction. Currently, legislation is being debated that could lower these interchange fees, however, when that [...]

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Mashable’s 73 Essential Social Media & Tech Tools for Small Businesses

May 16, 2011

The Wild WE loves it when Mashable puts out its weekly round-up of valuable tools and resources for the small business owner. We always find something new to help us be more organized, effective, and successful in our entrepreneurial pursuits. If you haven’t yet checked out this week’s list of 73 essential social media and tech resources, [...]

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Love a Local Business and Win a $50K Hiring Grant

May 13, 2011

Intuit, the folks who bring us Quicken and QuickBooks, is holding a contest to award a local small business owner a hiring grant worth up to $50K. Unless you were on the WPO’s list of top 50 fastest-growing women-led companies, your own small business could probably use this. So what are you waiting for? Nominate [...]

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Top 50 Fastest-Growing Women-Led Businesses

May 12, 2011

The Women Presidents’ Organization (WPO) has just released its list of the top 50 fastest-growing women-led businesses. At the top of the list is BrightStar, which uses a franchise model to provide home health-care staffing nationwide. (If the name sounds familiar it’s because the co-founder and CEO, Shelly Sun, was recently featured on CBS’s “Undercover [...]

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Is Your Small Business Mediocre?

May 11, 2011

We want all women entrepreneurs to be wild–wildly thriving, wildly successful, wildly wealthy. In today’s market, it’s just not enough to be average. Otherwise, we’d have to rebrand ourselves The Average WE. But what’s worse than being average? Being mediocre. Michele Welch, writing for the Young Entrepreneur blog, offers up these 5 tips for battling [...]

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Small Business Advice from Yoda

May 10, 2011

When we first saw this blog, we had to chuckle. After all, who better to dispense small business advice to young Jedi–er, entrepreneurs–than wise old Yoda? The Entrepreneur’s Yoda, a.k.a Lonnie Sciambi, has some great advice for entrepreneurs, both those just starting a business and those who have been at it for a lifetime. In [...]

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Making Your Small Business Look Bigger

May 6, 2011

One obstacle that women entrepreneurs sometimes face when starting a business is that they appear too “new” or too “small”. While the quality of products or services that your small business provides is paramount in keeping clients, sometimes you need a little “show” to bring on clients in the first place. Jeff Haden at BNET [...]

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