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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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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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From Bed Bugs to Mini-Brownies, Businesses Adapt to Change
Small companies evolve their business models to cater to shifting markets and fickle customers -
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Small Businesses Team Up to Land Federal Contracts
Subcontracting and partnering can help entrepreneurs break into the lucrative world of government work -
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Don't Let 'Showrooming' Sabotage Your Shop
Here are ways to discourage those customers who try out products in the store and then purchase them online -
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Trying to Maintain Your Online Reputation
It's nearly impossible to squelch negative online material. A good-faith, public effort to deal with the problem may turn detractors into advocates -
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Making the Web's Subscription Economy Hum
As online ventures embrace subscriptions to sell products that range from condoms to clothing, they're outsourcing billing and other chores
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