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• What’s more important: trust, respect, or being liked in business.
• StartupNation Elevator Pitch Contest helps you build your dream business
• Can you overstep the line to cut through the clutter and market your product?
• It’s Generation Boomers
• Starting a business may be a trait we pass on to our children
• Predicting how successful a new technology will be
• What is your time worth when you aren’t managing your small business?
• What is the best small business elevator pitch in the pitch-off? You tell us!
• StartupNation forums offer home-based business owners new opportunities for friendship
• This blog is not about slogging, clogging or flogging or logging
• Commencement message made to order for small business owners
• Vacation may lead to a new small business opportunity
• Grassroots marketing strategies can really payoff
• Marketing your small business: Choose your words carefully
• When starting a business, make yours one that gets the job done with one phone call
• Ten Steps to opening a lemonade stand
• Small business owners are contestants in the real American Idol
• Small Business exemplifies old business adage: Do one thing really well.
• Lessons from Enron: Are ethics part of your business plan?
• Even a great small business idea faces hurdles in the traditional marketplace
• Are you willing to pay for online subscriptions?
• What I learned over Spring break…
• Home-based business owner wins an office!
• Has starting a business made you become a workaholic?
• Small business association looking for woman entrepreneur and her family to star in reality television show.
• Could starting a business running errands be the best home-based business idea?
• Small business advice for communicating in the 21st Century
• Internet dangers abound for small business startups
• What’s the most important quality a business startup entrepreneur should possess?
• A real life water cooler question for home-based business owners
• More than being nice–customer service is key for home-based internet businesses
• What’s in your office?
• Autistic teen has lesson for small business owners
• A Reminder: Don’t Ignore Your Life Plan
• Are Traditonal Marketing Strategies Still Best?
• Olympic Champion Struck Gold Starting a Business at Thirteen
• Don’t overlook 40+ women when marketing your home-based business
• Small Business Owners Need Contingency Plans
• A Bubbly Niche!
• Born To Be An Entrepreneur
• A Dish To Pass
• Park Moms, Inc.
• Holiday Shopping Tips From StartupNation
• On The Verge of Something Big
• And You Thought You Had Problems!
• Dodge Phishing and Pharming Without Phreaking Out!
• Are You Waving a Red Flag Outside Your Office?
• How Does Your Garden Grow: Planting Seeds To Grow Your Business
• Are You Ready For A Real Office?
• Happy Halloween
• Success Killers
• A Lesson From America’s Pastime
• Is Your e-mail Getting Through?
• Do IT Pros Speak a Foreign Language?
• I”ll Tell Two People and They”ll Tell Two People
• Lagniappe
• Reinventing yourself and your business
• Happy New Year!
• Welcome to the Sandwich Generation
• Rehiring Employees
• Your Niche May Be Right Under Your Nose
• Flex-Time- Is the Concept Coming or Going?
• What Are You Wearing?
• Who Answers Your Phone?
• Connecting The Dots
• School’s Out!
• Preparing for the worst
• V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N
• Start With A Plan
• Office Hours
• Clutter
• Starting Up Every Day
• Doing your "Homework"