Over the past few months, the article reprint permission form was not sending me the request. Any permission forms were not submitted. My apologies to all those who had requested ... Read More

The SWOT analysis is a business tool available in the tool box of any small business owner. However, running a business forces you to focus on the issues and fires ... Read More

There comes a shattering moment in life when one is diagnosed with a chronic illness. It's a trying time for the individual and the families dealing with the illness. As ... Read More

Today's small business owner is confronted with new business problems and opportunities on a regular basis. Running a company requires the ability to look outside the business for solutions, ideas, ... Read More

An Argentina zoo has traffic lining up to see its purple polar bear. That's right...purple. According to zoo officials, the bear had a reaction to some medication for its ... Read More

Reach in your wallet and pull out your business card. Your Small Business Information guide has put together the business card test. Learn if your business card will pass or ... Read More

In these slow times, who wouldn't want more business? How does access to over 1 billion dollars of procurement contracts with the U.S. government and big business sound? The ... Read More

It seems like the world is being over run with bugs...West Nile mosquitoes, sars virus, termites, dust mites, grasshoppers and ants. There are over one million billion insects alone, not ... Read More

This week's reader question is "how to go about creating the proper business plan to get federal, state, or private funding for a non-profit organization". The world of non-profit organizations has ... Read More

A growing concern among small business owners and insurers is workers' compensation fraud. The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) estimates that workers’ compensation fraud is the fastest growing insurance scam ... Read More

The MoneyTree released its quarterly venture capital investment activity survey for the United States. This report is developed by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Thomson Venture Economics and the National Venture Capital Association. ... Read More

I have added a fun, new section called Biz Calculators. Calculators to figure out things such as: lease or own equipment, your return on investment for advertising, an employee turnover ... Read More

More on targeting new customers. If the fastest growing small businesses in America is not a suitable target consider big business. With corporate cost cutting and layoffs on the rise, ... Read More

On July 4th, 1776 a group of politicians and business men gathered to sign the Declaration of Independence. Among this group of founding fathers was a man, no other than, ... Read More

A reader writes in with a common question, "how many small businesses are there in America?" The number of small businesses depends on how you define small business. If you ... Read More

Welcome to the new blog format of About.com Small Business Information. As About.com moves its entire network to blogging, you may be wondering what a blog is? More importantly, what ... Read More