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Business News

Are You Ready for Student-Loan Rates to Skyrocket?

As House and Senate members bicker over how to pay for maintaining low rates on certain federal student loans, a July 1 deadline looms.

Business News

How to Get the Most out of the Next 54 Hours

There's nothing like participating in a Startup Weekend to force you to concentrate on your business. But go into it with goals.

Business News

Want to Create Engaging Content? Tell a Good Story

Engaging content starts and ends with a good story. Here's how to figure out which tale to tell.

Business News

SBA Chief Touts Entrepreneurship to Recent Grads in Twitter Q&A

New college graduates are facing never-before-seen student-debt levels. The White House is hoping entrepreneurship is the answer.

Business News

Fresh Ideas: 10 Ways to Win Over an Unsupportive Family as a Young Entrepreneur

It's no secret that entrepreneurs often beget entrepreneurial children, but when entrepreneurs spring from employees, strife often develops.Entrepreneurs understand how the business of working for yourself works

Business News

12 Golden Rules of Email Etiquette

As with any human interaction there are a certain set of unwritten rules of etiquette. Not sticking to the basic etiquette of email can lead to annoyed

Business News

Making Your Small Business Seem Bigger

Nobody can deny that owning your own small business is a challenging and rewarding experience. Sometimes though, you can feel like a tiny grain of sand on

Business News

Successful Startups Often Come With a High Price

Most entrepreneurs expect to face the "normal" challenges of starting a business, which include finding the right opportunity, building and executing a winning plan, and financing their

Growing a Business

Seven Ways to Whip Your Website into Shape

Here is a guide for giving your business website a makeover that will help attract more clients in 2012.

Social Media

Four Rules to Build Your Blog Readership

You've started writing, now it's time to learn how to promote each entry so you can gain traction and raise visibility.

Business News

Learning to Embrace Failure

A young entrepreneur's ability to embrace failure is paramount to his or her long-term success in business.

Social Media

How to Promote Your Business Blog with Social Media

Follow these tips to harness the full promotional power of the social web.

Leadership

Lessons Learned: How Tumblr Recovered from a Business Crisis

David Karp's blog platform has seen hockey-stick growth, and so has his learning curve as entrepreneur. He shares how his company bounced back from the tech tumble that brought down millions of blogs last year.

Marketing

Did Google Stop Sending You Traffic?

Consider these six ways to regain lost ground in Google's search rankings.

Business News

Creating a Dream Team to Guide Your Business

You hear it called by many names: a mastermind group, success team, think tank, advisory board, etc. But it's got one purpose, and that is to help