One of the most important things that you can do as a small business owner is to find a way to set your business apart from the competition. There are a lot of things that you can do to accomplish this goal. However there are really only two basic approaches that are available to you:

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The end of the year is almost upon us. Unless you run on a fiscal year instead of a calendar year, this means that you need to take a serious look at your 2009 business spending right now. You want to see if you have money left over this year that should be invested back [...]

I recently helped to form a co-op of freelance workers in my neighborhood. Although we don’t work together on jobs, we do work together in some ways. Mostly, we help each other gain access to the things that we’d have access to if we were working in larger companies.
For example, I’ve been wanting to work [...]

I’m a drama teacher at Rock Canyon High School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado.  I really have a neat little program, though it’s getting tougher and tougher to get our share of the “market” into the audiences for our plays, due to the heavy competition for people’s time with all of the community events and sports [...]

One of the most important things that your business can be today is green. Green businesses typically save money because they reduce waste. They increase profits because businesses that practice eco-friendly habits are businesses that customers want to support. Overall it’s smart to be green. But since every other business already knows this how are [...]