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Your Small Business Questions, Answered
Send us your questions on challenges you face in your business. Journalist Karen E. Klein will interview experts and distill their insights into answers.
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When Moms Who Run Businesses Take Maternity Leave
Marissa Mayer's plan to "work throughout" her brief maternity leave sparked vigorous debate. Absent much of the discussion: how entrepreneurs juggle their newborns and their work -
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Sell More Online This Holiday Season
Experts are pushing small retailers to ready their websites now to capture more online sales during the holidays -
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Big Data Can Make a Big Difference in Marketing
Even the smallest businesses are swimming in an ocean of proprietary data. How they analyze, interpret, and apply that information has significant implications -
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What Happens After Failure on Main Street
Failure can be a badge of honor among venture-capital-backed entrepreneurs in startup hot spots like Silicon Valley. For Main Street business owners, the perception is different -
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Can the Godless Market Evolve Beyond Bumper Stickers?
As millions of Americans identify as "convinced atheists," vendors and advocates see a "hungry" market for themed merchandise -
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Boosting the Odds of Landing Business Credit
Small business owners often can't get the credit they seek. A former banker suggests some commonsense tactics -
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How to Deflect Requests for Money
An investment adviser on the delicate art of assessing (and rejecting) investment opportunities pitched by family and friends -
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Why Self-Awareness Is Crucial for Entrepreneurs
Individuals building businesses will accomplish more if they understand what drives their decisions, Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck co-author Richard J. Harrington says -
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When Founders Hire a Boss and Give Up Control
One seasoned attorney estimates 80 percent of founders of fast-growing companies eventually sell or step aside. Meet a handful who stayed on -
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Corporate Social Responsibility: Distinction or Distraction?
Showcasing the ways your company helps society is good marketing if they are aligned with your mission—and potentially damaging if they’re not -
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Time to Equalize Tax Breaks for Charitable Giving?
An analysis by a nonprofit shows that in-kind donations by small businesses would quadruple if they were to receive credits comparable to those their big counterparts get -
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Planning Tax Strategy as Congress Bickers About Taxes
A CPA offers advice on reducing tax liability and preparing for changes in tax rates and deduction limits -
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Fashioning a Textile Business From Scratch
First determine what your product line will be and which companies make similar items -
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Getting Started in Government Contracting
Myriad resources exist to help small business owners land government contracts. They should know that the process is costly and involved and that bad advice can torpedo efforts -
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Spotting Home-Based Business Scams
How to identify and avoid bogus websites that are snaring would-be self-employed with promises of big pay for little work
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