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5 Ways to Grow Your Small Business

The mood of American business owners has changed. After simply hanging on these past few years, hoping to survive the worst recession in decades, small business owners are now seeing movement and growth all around them. If you’re running a company in this environment, sitting back and waiting for new customers to come to you will not cut it. There are others in your industry taking a more aggressive approach, going after what they want instead of hoping it walks through the door. Here are a few tips on how you can do the same…

In the Market for A Business?

Owning a company doesn’t necessarily mean starting one. If you’re thinking about being your own and owning a business, buying a company that’s already up and running may be easier and faster than starting from scratch.

Using Social Networking Marketing to Your Advantage

If you are a small business owner, then you know just how difficult it can be to promote your business, especially if you are operating under a really tight budget, as many small business owners are. Thankfully, there are many things you can do to market your business that cost very little, and some marketing methods don’t cost anything at all. You just have to know what these things are, and how to use them to your own advantage.

Three Great Marketing Strategies for Social Networking Sites

If you are not taking advantage of everything that the Internet has to offer in the way of advertising for small businesses, then you are not going to ever be able to keep up with your competition. There are many different ways that you can use the Internet to promote yourself and your business, and if you are taking advantage of social networking websites, you can do a lot of your promoting at no cost to yourself. Advertising can get really expensive, and it is often something that small business owners do not do enough…

Mom and Pop and the Debt Ceiling

EVERYONE, even my 6 year old granddaughter, has heard the brouhaha going on with our U.S. Congress madly working on raising the debt ceiling so the U.S. government will have the funds to keep spending. If you have not heard about this you won’t be reading this article but will be in the middle of nowhere, with no phone and no news source whatsoever, basically dead to the world.