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Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Internet : Branding Yourself Online

These Small Business tips will cover how to brand yourself online: the 4 best branding practices.

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Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Top 20 Small Business Experts on Twitter

Are you on Twitter? Many small business experts are. Find out who the top 20 small business experts are on Twitter and exactly why they're called experts.

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Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Internet : Getting Noticed

Learn how to get noticed online! These Small Business tips will focus on how to get noticed once you've taken your business to the internet.

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Escaping the Tax Hikes: When Businesses Go Overseas

One of the arguments against tax hikes is that those with the money will leave the location being taxed. We have seen it happen on a municipal level, even a state level, and now, we are seeing it clearly on the national level as the president’s tax policies crystallize and companies relocate overseas to escape them.

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Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Internet : Building Your Website

How to build a website when you don't know where to start. Thee Small Business will be about building your website provided you've purchased your domain name and have web hosting.

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Mind Your Language: What Message do the Words in Your Ads Send?

We all know that words have meaning, but did you realize that there is a meaning beyond what the dictionary says? More than that, it can have a great effect on how your advertising is perceived.

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Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Internet : Your Website Name

What do your name your website and domain for your small business? Here are 4 tips to make the decision easy. Small Business tips cover naming your website and securing the domain.

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Checking Out Your Customers Before You Take The Job

You have heard of consumer sites ranging from Rip-off Reports to Consumerist to Yelp to Rate My Professor. They all allow consumers to rate the people they hire. That is all well and good, but what about you? How do you know if the customer on the other end of the phone is a real customer or a deadbeat? Enter BusinessBeware.biz.

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Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Internet : Taking Your Small Business Online

How do you know if it's time to take your small business online? These Small Business tips will tell you how to know when the time is right to take your business on the internet.

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

How Cap and Trade Affects Your Small Business

As a small business owner, you know well enough that your taxes are going to be rising—possibly dramatically—over the next year or so. It is in the stimulus, and the budget, but have you paid attention to what is going to happen as soon as Obama passes his cap and trade legislation. It is supposed to lower carbon emissions, and it might. It will also be a massive tax on energy, one that you won’t be able to escape.

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Make the Sale Before Even Stepping Through the Door

Your business survives on sales, no question about it, but there is a little-known secret that the sale is won before you step into your potential customer's office. It all comes down to one word: Planning.

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Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Sales : Ways to Sell your Products or Services

Small Business tips about ways to sell your products or services.

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Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Sales : Business to Business Selling

How do you sell to another business instead of just the individual consumer? Business-to-business selling can be tough if you don't know what you're doing. These Small Business tips are about business to business sales.

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Stimulus Fraud Coming to an Inbox Near You

Ripped right from the headlines, con artists are targeting people with an email campaign that promises to get you a piece of the recently passed stimulus bill, thousands for just a small fee. Don’t you believe it!

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Buy Local Networks and You

Small businesses today are banding together in even greater numbers than ever before to promote the idea of buying from local businesses. Would this be a good fit for your business?

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