Business Blogs: Trends, tips, and real-life anecdotes from industry experts.

Hello StartupNation! I am back from vacation - I actually got back on Sunday, but I needed to re-acquaint myself with my smart phone before I reported back to you how the separation went.  Well, the good news is I survived the week-long break from constant contact with the outer world, and I am here [...]

We’ve launched a great new source of content for you at StartupNation.com. It’s called, The Small Business Braintrust(TM) and it’s been extremely well received by our audience beta testing. While the audience beta testing included only my mother, I’m pretty sure she doesn’t have any special biases.
Basically, the Small Business Braintrust is a video conference [...]

Chocolate. Jewelry. Cards. Ethical Roses.
Ahhhh. All nice things for Mother’s Day…
Wait, ethical roses? What the heck is an “ethical rose”?
Well, that’s exactly what I thought when I was driving home from a meeting and listening to a very interesting radio spot.
According to the announcer, we need to buy “ethical roses.” No, a dozen roses from [...]

Approximately 30% of American mobile phone users have a smart phone and adoption rates are increasing. According to comScore, a digital market intelligence company, it’s estimated that by the end of 2011, that number will have increased to 50%. This represents a huge opportunity to small business owners who have retail locations. Here are 9 of the top mobile coupon applications to market your small business.

Similar to our efforts on Twitter to claim the www.twitter.com/startupnation account name, we have now achieved something similar for www.facebook.com/startupnation.
As I wrote a while ago here in my blog about the Twitter squatter who was trying to extort StartupNation, there are definitely systems in place at the social media companies that support ethical companies and [...]

Hi gang,
Please do me the honor tomorrow of joining myself and John Lawson, aka ColderIce, aka one of Startupnation’s home based business winners, as we discuss what the GSI Commerce deal means for eBay and for YOU, my dear eBay seller nation. Yes, we’ll also be talking about the upcoming fee changes, format changes, the [...]

One of the biggest challenges as a startup is that funds are not what you would like for them to be. It is the reason why you are willing to work out of coffee shops or any other location where you can find a cheap bit to eat and some free Wi-Fi. It is a [...]

Your Website is up and running, and you love it.

But, what do your customers think?
If your site traffic is low (check your Google analytics to find out), it’s time to take a closer look at your site.
The good news is, you can make a few, free changes that result in drastic improvements. To start, [...]

Silicon Valley isn’t the only place that has investors, mentors, and billion dollar companies. The East Coast has Boston and New York City looking to even the playing field so that startups aren’t all forced to move out west if they want to grow.
All of these spaces are growing together as innovation gets easier and [...]

Not too long ago, inventors and entrepreneurs had limited options available to them in regards to exhibiting their products at tradeshows.
They could either attend one of the smaller inventor-related tradeshows, or they could go to a large national product tradeshow and exhibit alongside large, established companies.
The first option offered very limited exposure for their product, and [...]