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You should continually strive to improve your small business website in order to maximize the value of the site to your business. But where to start??
To that end, here are three relatively simple steps that you can take to make improvements to your website today:
1. Review Your Analytics
Have you checked your web analytics recently? Analytics [...]

Your customers have something to say. Are you listening? Is your website capturing this valuable information?
Your small business website is an excellent tool for hearing from your customers and prospective customers, and for engaging with them. What is on their minds? What are new challenges of theirs that you can solve for them?
How is your [...]

I recently spoke with Shashi Srikantan, founder of Quench Bath and Body, on StartupNation Radio. Her company offers bath and body products from around the world. What a star she is!
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Though she’s just recently become an entrepreneur, thanks in part to her use of our StartMeUp! program, Shashi has always been interested in beauty products.  [...]

I love to admit it, Rich Sloan is right.
Do all of your research diligently, assess the landscape of the market, finely define the project at hand, painstakingly lay out a time schedule, assign specific tasks to specific people, stay on top of the process with regularly scheduled meetings, set deadlines and gather feedback from team [...]

Here’s a link to the webcast of my 8 Secrets to Startup Success.
Throughout April and into early May, I was on a seminar tour with the folks at Microsoft Office Live Small Business. The tour, Vision to Venture (aimed at women entrepreneurs), was a huge success. Hundreds of people showed up in St. Louis, San [...]

Hi gang,
Yeah,  eBay has been a tough marriage the last few years for us. Â
First they jack up my Store insertion fees 150%, then they institute undocumented policies concerning the feedback system and we almost get kicked off the site (neutrals are now negatives!),  then they announce fee structure changes that actually RAISE our fees,  then [...]

So what do you do when you wake up at 4am with a leg cramp and then lie in bed for the next 45 minutes wondering if it will come back while the challenges of the upcoming day are whirling through your brain? Well, if you’re the CEO of a startup company you get up [...]

As you know, at StartupNation we’re all about helping you make progress and get stuff done easier and more effectively as an entrepreneur.
Well, this week marks a milestone for entrepreneurs who’ve been wondering when’s the right time to finally get their business online with a solid website and a comprehensive online strategy.
That time is now. [...]

The rockin' great
web team here at StartUpNation  has done it again. This time they've made the
Search Functionality on StartupNation.com something to be proud of. You can
search major sections of the site: Content, Blogs, Forums, Members,
Marketplace. And an Advanced Search will help you fine tune the results
even more.
For example, this morning I received a private message [...]

A common problem we see here on StartupNation is bootstrapping entrepreneurs without the working capital to get their company website set up properly. Having a web presence is crucial for today's start-ups, but what do you do if you you don't have the money for a site or the knowledge to build your own? The [...]