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Business Management
Day-to-day business management got you down?  Articles to help you run and grow your small business?
Business Start Up
Ready to start up your own small business?  Articles for entrepreneurs itching to take that leap.   
Small Business Legal
Small business law not your fortay?  Articles to help you navigate the maze of small business legal issues.    
Online Sales
Whether marketing your brick and mortar business or selling online, these are the tips and advice you need to get going and growing on the internet.
Small Business Finance
Can't hire an accountant?  Articles to help you understand and manage your small business finances.
Technology
Not an IT expert?  Articles to shed some light on small business technology issues.
Small Business Development | Books for Small Business
Meet the authors of best selling small business books and get advice on issues such as business planning, start up, growth strategy, marketing and much more.
Small Business Finance and Accounting Management
All businesses need money to operate.  Learn how to acquire money and manage your business finances.  
Real Stories of Successful Entrepreneurs
Real success stories of entrepreneurs and how they turned their dreams into small business success.
Small Business Consulting and Advice | Featured Advisors
Learn from small business expert advisors the tips and tricks of running your own small business. Advice and business ideas for the entrepreneur.
Small Business Opportunities | Franchising Opportunities
Franchising is an excellent way to grow your small business, and becoming a franchisee is a great opportunity for an entrepreneur
Starting a Green Business | Going Green
Is your small business environmentally friendly?  Find out how entrepreneurs can go green to save money and win clients.
Home Based Business
Home Based Businesses are the fastest growing type of start up.  Tips to help you start and run a successful home based business.
Internet Marketing
Get internet marketing advice with free videos on email marketing, online video, blogging, social media, web design and webinars. Make money online!
Small Business Legal Information | Small Business Law
Law for small business covers the many legal issues surrounding small businesses.  Use these segments to avoid getting into hot water or to find your way out.
Small Business Management | Advice & Guides for Small Business
Get answers to small business management questions. Explore issues like human resources, operations, money, and legal. Start up your healthy business.
Small Business Marketing
Help for small business marketing and online advertising with videos on e-mail marketing, media & public relations, sales, networking and more.
Mobile Business
Ideas and tools to help you start a mobile business or expand your current company by taking it on the road.
Starting A Small Business | Growing A Small Business
Been downsized and thinking of starting your own business?  This information will help you get started.
Sales Strategies
Proven advice, strategies and techniques to increase your small business sales and gain more from your business development efforts.
SBTV Small Business Blog
How Smart Businesses Stretch Travel Dollars
If you slashed travel out of your budget to try to get through the economic downturn, now might be a good time to start easing back in.  SBTV.com is proud to bring you a new four part webisode series, How Smart Businesses Stretch Travel Dollars," delivered by American Airlines. 
Business Leaders Join President Barack Obama in Efforts to Build Exporting
SBTV Small Business Blog The biggest names in business are part of a White House team to help American entrepreneurs and small businesses sell more goods and services globally.
Mobile Retailing Blueprint Helps Small Business Succeed
Small Business Blog Mobile commerce is the buying method for consumers looking for instant ways to communicate with their favorite brands and businesses.
Nell Merlino Releases First Book
SBTV Small Business Blog Nell Merlino creates change against the odds, whether raising visibility or helping women in business create million-dollar enterprises.
Sam's Club to Offer Small Business Loans
SBTV Small Business Blog Sam’s Club is testing an online service offering loans to entrepreneurs and small businesses. 
The Full Service Experience for Your Small Business Customers
SBTV Small Business Blog  When did great service become a real newsmaker?  In a do-it-yourself world of consumers, is the full service experience a bit outdated?
Main Street Fairness Law for Small Business
The Main Street Fairness Act would make it easier for states to require Web businesses and other out-of-state merchants to collect sales tax the same as local bricks-and-mortar stores.
New Ford Technology Tackles Crashes on Curves
SBTV Small Business Blog: New Curve Control innovation from Ford may help reduce accidents for small business owners who spend their workday on the road. 
Recycling Can Help Veterans Go From Battlefield to Small Business Owner
SBTV Small Business Blog: Recycling could help a disabled Veteran become a small business owner through the Entrepreneurship BootCamp for Veterans with Disabilities.
Find Your Independence and Be Your Own Boss
SBTV Small Business Blog: Independence for many Americans is running their own business or designing a product to solve a problem to give them control over a situation.
Your Business Logo or Streaming Ad on License Plates? Ads Turning Up in Unusual Places

Budget shortfalls are prompting some state leaders to consider allowing business owners to buy space on millions of parcels of state issued real estate---license plates!

Secrets of Driving Small Business Customer Loyalty and Profits
SBTV.com Small Business Blog: There is a way to escape the pricing wars and find ways to strengthen the marketing backbone of your company.  It is building a strong personal bond with your customers.
The Search is on for Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners Making a Positive Impact
SBTV.com Small Business Blog: Looking for young entrepreneurs who are creating small businesses and ventures with a positive impact on their communities.
Operation Stores and Stripes Offers a Sears Store to an Aspiring Vet Business Owner

SBTV Small Business Blog: Operation Stores and Stripes offers a Sears store to an aspiring veteran business owner.

Small Business Can Make an Impression with New Contest and Prizes
SBTV Small Business Blog: A new small business contest could make it easier for small firms to find new customers and market products and services.
Constant Contact Creates Marketplace to Help Small Business Connect
SBTV Small Business Blog: Constant Contact creates Marketplace to help small business connect.
Ford Uses Social Media to Introduce the New Explorer.
SBTV Small Business Blog: Ford Uses Social Media to introduce the New Explorer.
Technology Puts Mobile Business Owners in the Driver’s Seat
SBTV Small Business Blog: Technology puts mobile business owners in the driver’s seat.
New Tech Tool Vendr Transforms Blog or Website into Online Small Business
SBTV Small Business Blog: New tech tool Vendr transforms blog or website into online small business.
Google Offers Free Patent and Copyright Searches to Inventors and Entrepreneurs
SBTV Small Business Blog: Google to offer free patent and copyright searches to inventors, entrepreneurs and small business owners.
Social Media Helps Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners Connect
SBTV Small Business Blog: More small business owners and entrepreneurs are finding ways to network, connect and partner via social media channels.
SBA Offers Economic Help to Small Businesses Impacted in Gulf Coast Oil Spill
SBTV Small Business Blog: The Small Business Administration SBA is offering low-interest disaster loans to small non-farm businesses suffering as a result of the Gulf oil spill.
Half Million Dollar Prize for New Products & Ideas

SBTV Small Business Blog: Entrepreneurs think outside the box!  Many of the innovations changing the nation’s business landscape started in a small business.

A New Effort to Help Small Businesses Become Government Contractors
SBTV Small Business Blog: A new national initiative is underway to help small businesses get Government Contracts in transportation.
Celebrate Main Street: Red, White, Blue, and Small Business
SBTV Small Business Blog: Independence for many Americans is running their own business or designing a product to solve a problem.
New Free Service to Manage Social Media for Business and Entreprenuers
SBTV Small Business Blog: Small business owners are tapping the power of social media to connect with customers, reach new prospects, and improve relationships with existing clients.
Large Newspaper Publishers Offering Small Business Service Initiatives
SBTV Small Business Blog: The importance of small business is being recognized by some of the nation’s largest newspapers.  Two will be selling marketing services to small businesses.
Small Bakeries Get Help to Boost Sales
SBTV Small Business Blog: A new program aims to keep small bakers businesses strong.  The Retail Bakers of America has launched a sales program for its members.
New Disaster Relief Effort Focuses on Immediate Delivery of Supplies from Businesses
SBTV Small Business Blog: Entrepreneurs and small business owners are often at the center of the relief effort when a disaster or problem strikes their community.
Cargo Changes Signal Economic Recovery: The Effort to Help U.S. Business Make Global Sales
SBTV Small Business Blog: There is another indicator the U.S. economic recovery is underway.  The newest government numbers show imports and exports rose.
$250,000 in Business Grants for Enterprising Moms with a Great Small Business Idea
SBTV Small Business Blog: Home based businesses are the small business plan for a growing force of entrepreneurs. “House work” is taking on a whole new meaning in millions of home businesses because a growing segment of women are finding a career while staying at home. 
Young Innovators & Inventors Share Ideas & More than $4 Million in Prizes
SBTV Small Business Blog: The bright ideas of inventors and the breakthrough plans of entrepreneurs often scribbled on a napkin or notepad today may well become our nation’s innovations tomorrow.
The Invisible Challenge for Millions of People in Today's Competitive Business Climate
SBTV Small Business Blog: It is tough to compete and succeed in many small businesses but millions of these business and community leaders also face an invisible challenge: fibromyalgia.
Small Business Owners and Retailers Working to Make Credit Card Legislation Law
SBTV Small Business Blog: Small business owners are among the groups urging Vermont Governor Jim Douglas to sign a newly passed measure making it easier for businesses to give customers who pay by cash, check, or debit card a discount.
Small Business Owners Ask for More Tax Relief
SBTV Small Business Blog: Small business owners are asking lawmakers for support and tax incentives to help the nation’s smallest firms succeed.  Many entrepreneurs have yet to see the early signs of economic improvement and are asking for help in getting the small business recovery moving ahead. 
Small Business Owners Can Help Clean Up Oil Spill
SBTV Small Business Blog: Barbers, cosmetologists, farmers, and pet groomers are among the small business owners across the nation now collecting hair and nylons to fight the spreading oil spill.
Sam's Club Announces Giving Made Simple Winners
SBTV Small Business Blog: Groups helping entrepreneurs and youth across the nation are big winners today. Kiva and YMCA are the winners of one million dollar grants from Sam’s Club® Giving Made Simple Campaign.
Growing Your Small Business Takes the Right Tools
SBTV Small Business Blog: Growing a small business with limited resources requires the right tools.  Entrepreneurs are prospectors searching for new markets, clients, and revenue sources. 
Small Business Connections Through Technology
SBTV Small Business Blog: An effort is underway to make sure the nation’s entrepreneurs, small businesses, and rural companies have the technology tools and connections they need to stay competitive.
New Tax Breaks for Small Business
SBTV Small Business Blog: IRS sends out information to small business on new tax breaks in health care reform legislation.
Tax Tips to Assist Your Small Business Accounting
Small Business Accounting can be a daunting task, especially around tax time.  But it doesn't have to be with these tax tips from SBTV.com by Danita Blackwood.
Increase Sales with Small Business Marketing
SBTV Small Business Blog: Increase your sales with small business marketing techniques from the experts, all this week on www.sbtv.com.
Baby Boomers Becoming Small Business Owners
SBTV Small Business Blog: 80 million baby-boomers will retire over the next 20 years. But many will be ready to start a new chapter in their lives, including starting small businesses of their own.
What Would You Do with $4 Million Dollars?
What would you do with $4 million?  That is the question being asked of small business owners and consumers today in a new approach to giving.
Small Business Technology | Technology for Entrepreneurs
Learn about small business IT from internet websites and email, to the mobile office, to network security software.
How Smart Businesses Stretch Travel Dollars by American Airlines
How Smart Businesses Stretch Travel Dollars – Plan Ahead
Smart business owners and managers know the road to success starts with good planning. Business management expert Gene Marks explains that planning ahead when it comes to travel will help you save money and make your business trips more productive. In this webisode you’ll learn why it’s critical to have a formal travel policy for your business and why it’s a MUST to create relationships with preferred travel partners.
How Smart Business Stretch Travel Dollars – In the Air
Cost saving is key to doing business these days and travel is one area that IS possible. In this webisode, business management expert Gene Marks shares his secrets to get the best deals in the air and his favorite tools for staying productive on the ground.
Additional Smart Business Travel Resources
American Airlines Business ExtrAA Small Business Customer Profiles
Small business owners talk about the benefits of the American Airlines Business ExtrAA program for their company. Click to hear their stories.
American Airlines Business Suite
American Airlines offers travel solutions for small and mid-size businesses to help save money and help make the most of their travel budgets.
Click here to see how the American Airlines Business Suite can impact your business.
Social Media for Small Business
Social media is a popular and cost effective way to market your small business.  Learn ways you can incorporate social media into your marketing strategy. 
Women Owned Business | Woman Owned Business
Explore issues for women in business, one of the fastest growing segments in small business.
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