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It only happens twice each year. Today & tomorrow are magical days for home based businesses.
But you’ve got to catch this magic in a bottle right now! The opportunity window closes at 5pm Friday afternoon.
Here’s the deal. Your customers and prospects are at work. They can’t watch tv at work. They want to watch tv [...]

There are two examples of new buzzwords that I’ve been exposed to recently and they both seem to be making a bid to create a new definition for marketing.
Long Tail
Slivercasting
Long Tail showed up last year as Wired magazine popularized the phrase to refer to the large number of specialized offerings that in themselves appeal to [...]

Full service car wash.
You see, you probably thought I’d wimp out and not really name one. I mean come on, how can you pick just one business that’s the best for everyone. Isn’t it conventional wisdom that we all have unique personalities & gifts & styles?
But I’ve decided. There is just no question at all [...]

Life is full of give & take choices. Finding that balance that works for your own life plan is one of the essential keys to success. For entrepreneurs in the early startup phase, it’s often the simplest of things that get compromised in order to build toward the independent dream life that owning your own [...]

We look for cool companies all the time and want you to help us find them. So keep them coming our way!
Email ideas to info@startupnation.com.
Today’s Cool Company is Old House Gardens, one of the leading heirloom seed catalog companies in the world.
What makes the company cool–more than the fact that they run their business out [...]

One of the most popular questions we get at StartupNation is about start up business financing: how to raise money to start a small business. We even have an entertaining and instructive exercise on StartupNation Radio called the elevator pitch where an entrepreneur pretends she is in an elevator for a 60 second ride with [...]

If you own, or consider starting a home-based internet retail business or are a reseller for a manufacturer of goods, Great customer service is essential. Make sure all the links in your customer service chain are intact.
If it’s your product, outsourcing can be a key move, but each person in the chain must [...]

Here’s the scenario … Your small business has just been blessed with an influx of capital. Cold hard cash. Maybe it came from friends & family or an angel investor or venture capital. Maybe you’ve just landed a big client that will provide you with financial resources you haven’t had up to this point. [...]

Calling on all marketing experts! Or at least any entrepreneur (in-training, even) who has an opinion …
One of our new StartupNation Community Advisory Board members, Aron North, has a marketing dilemma. Aron has asked me to go to the StartupNation community to get some small business marketing strategies advice. Here’s the challenge:
Aron’s company, Perfect Beverage [...]

The facts are in. Women are just as likely to be successful entrepreneurs as men. But we all know that women and men are from different planets. So what is different about the women who are starting businesses than the men?
I really don’t know. I really want to know.
Do women have specific entrepreneurial qualities [...]