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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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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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Remodelers Aim for Aging Boomers
Contractors are banking on baby boomers to retrofit their homes to accommodate their needs as they age -
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Marketing to the Rationally Irrational
Pointing out how irrational consumers can be is in vogue. But recent studies point to how sensible those seemingly emotional decisions often are -
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Using a Barter Exchange to Conserve Cash
The head of a popular barter exchange explains the mechanics of the system that business owners use to sell excess goods and services -
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Landing Overseas Distribution With Limited Resources
Before agreeing to an onerous deal to break into a coveted market, research financing alternatives and fulfillment services -
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Twitter Ads Hit or Miss With Small Business
Three months into a limited national test, Twitter's first effort to convince small companies to buy do-it-yourself ads on the social network receives mixed reviews -
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Worker Shortage? Teach Teens Manufacturing Skills
Small manufacturers are partnering with high schools to train future employees -
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The Translation Industry Interprets 'Recession-Proof'
Government data and company executives suggest that entrepreneurs looking to start translation and interpretation businesses need not fear machine-translation services
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