“The definitive Blog for Small Business. Covering current topics that relate to starting, growing and succeeding in Small Business and Business Blogs.”

“Tracking and analyzing trends and events that influence the global small business market. This site is updated by Anita Campbell and David Patterson.”

“The book focuses on good growth versus bad growth (growth just for the sake of growth) and how to push the former and stop the latter. One major idea is this ó give up on homeruns. Those huge once-per-decade-bet-the-company homerun projects are rare. If that is what you spend all your time looking for, the rest of your business will suffer. Be consistent. Hit singles and doubles. Over time, that will add up to steady growth, which is exactly what you want.”

“You are what you sell. Sales is the front-wheel drive that pulls a company forward in the marketplace. But in many companies, top managers are frustrated because the sales process seems disconnected from corporate objectives. This presents a serious impediment to management’s efforts to manage profitability effectively.”

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“A Microsoft Word document of SCO’s suit against DaimlerChrysler, seen by CNET News.com, originally identified Bank of America as the defendant instead of the automaker. This revision and others in the document can be seen through powerful but often forgotten features in Microsoft Word known as invisible electronic ink.”

“Strategic planning at many large companies is a sterile annual exercise that managers endure. Theyíre often asked to produce either a shining vision or financial certainty or both. But with growth back on the agenda, a few leading companies are creating value through strategic managing, which connects strategy to the front lines and to market opportunities as they unfold.” (The report is a PDF.)

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“Like many other scientists and engineers who have ended up founding companies, I didn’t leave Caltech as an entrepreneur. I had no training in business; after my sophomore year of college I didn’t take any courses outside of chemistry, math, and physics. My career as an entrepreneur happened quite by accident.”

“Marketing advice, articles, resources and HOW-TOs for the technology entrepreneur.”

“The Top Cities in America for doing business are not at all where most people think, and there’s good data to back that up. This year Inc. publishes an exclusive Top Cities list, using a brand-new methodology that we believe to be the most objective, reliable system used anywhere for ranking fertile ground for companies.”

“The eighth edition of the email newsletter Plain Talk About Business Performance focuses on fighting fires in the workplace ó solving problems. James Rieley contends that instead of truly solving problems, most managers actually only address the symptoms of said problems.”

“The biggest obstacle to knowing what customers really think about us? Fear. We fear theyíll tell us our product or service stinks, that weíre horrible people and we should never have set foot on earth. Yet most companies never hear that type of painful feedback. Our research finds that companies with strong word of mouth and customer devotion behave like high-performance athletes when it comes to focusing on customer feedback. In effect, they are feedback machines. Customer feedback drives their marketing strategies, product development and service expectations.”

“If you were about to graduate from college and had an interest in becoming an entrepreneur, what would you do? That’s the gist of an I received in an email from Taylor Brooks, an entrepreneurship major pondering the big questions and asking for advice. With permission, I am answering this openly and hopefully drawing in better experts than myself.”