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One Way That Your Customers Can Save Gas...

This kind of ties into David Utter's recent article on saving your customer's fuel costs. I think that most of you would agree with me that these gas prices are getting ridiculous. Believe it or not, your customers are probably thinking the same thing every time they go to fill their tanks. Chances are that many of these same customers are also trying to think of ways to cut down on the amount of gas they use, if nothing else, just to save some money.

Free Software Should (Sometimes) Be Shunned

It's hard enough to pass up on useless free things; free things of the valuable variety are really had to ignore.  Still, for the sake of a business's operations and image, free software shouldn't be chosen on account of its price alone.

Women Entrepreneurs - The Real Economic Stimulus Package

Women are starting businesses like they're going out of style and the people behind the "Make Mine a Million $ Business Club" are happy to call attention to that fact. The club, while sponsored by American Express, is based on a national grassroots campaign with the purpose of empowering women entrepreneurs to grow their businesses.

Bad News: Bankruptcies Rising

The goal of SmallBusinessNewz is not to bum you out.  And on the bright side, since you're reading SmallBusinessNewz, we're thinking (and hoping) this hasn't affected you.  But a new report states that bankruptcies are on the rise.

Save Your Customer's Fuel Costs And Profit

One little niche in small business may be expanding thanks to a weakened dollar and soaring gas prices as entrepreneurs find ways to save their customers a drive.

Is Your Sales Team Too Pushy?

Obviously sales are the cornerstone of any successful business. After all, if nobody's buying from you, you're not going to be in business for very long.However, there is such a thing as your sales team working too hard. What I mean by this is that they might be pushing the customers too hard to get them to buy.

Healthcare Presses Expensively On Small Business

High costs not only took a toll on the coverage offered to small business employees, but on the health of the owners too.

Report: Tech Entrepreneurs Not Too Young

Imagine a roomful of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, and you'll probably see a bunch of Mark Zuckerberg look-alikes.  New data shows that these guys' moms and dads are more likely to have started something successful, though.

Email Marketing and Your Ads

Continuing in what is becoming a series of email marketing articles (find the others here), I want to talk a little bit more about advertising in email newsletters.There are several angles to look at this from: the perspective of the business that is being advertised, anthe perspective of the content publisher selling the ad space, and the perspective of the subscriber. For now, I'm going to focus on the business that is looking to advertise.