Partner for Exponential Growth: The Joint Venture Redefined

These days, everyone seems to be talking about Joint Venture Partnerships, yet there is little definition surrounding what joint ventures are and how you can make them work for you. Let’s shed a little light, shall we?

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4 Successful Job Search Strategies for Mature Workers

Despite U.S. unemployment rates that hover around 10 percent, one segment of the population is not being hit as hard: employees age 55-plus. At its peak in December 2009, the unemployment rate for this group was 7.2 percent. As of December, 2010, it was 6.9 percent. These statistics will no doubt come as a surprise to all the 55-plus job seekers who are still struggling to find work.

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Ten Ways to Market Yourself: Create Opportunities & Build Your Brand

But while the stock market has been rising, tax cuts have been extended and business is picking up, these are far from ideal times. High unemployment persists, and the economy still has a cautious, uncertain feeling to it. Today's business environment remains somewhat perilous, but at the same time, there are great prospects for those who play their cards right. That's why it is so important for you to build your personal brand and create opportunities.

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Small Businesses: Getting the Right Auto Insurance for the Company Car

Small businesses often have an entire laundry list of expenses, and commercial auto insurance can certainly be amongst the top. But getting affordable coverage for the company car is not unlike finding the same thing for a privately owned vehicle.

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Small Business Guide to Twitter

Businesses can use Twitter as a marketing tool in a variety of ways. Many business owners struggle with social media as a marketing medium. Learn how to use Twitter effectively.

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Five Reasons Why Your Business May Not Be Growing

Business leaders complain all the time that nothing seems to have changed in their organizations, despite their best efforts to make things happen. Yet they continue to do the same things and receive the same results. Well, it's no wonder why nothing has changed!

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LinkedIn Profile Secrets: The #1 Reason Why Your LinkedIn Profile Fails to Attract More Prospects

LinkedIn has the world’s largest audience of affluent, influential professionals from large and small companies and every type of business and industry imaginable. But are you maximizing your LinkedIn presence? Learn how you can use your LinkedIn profile to attract more prospects.

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5 Fresh Innovative Marketing Ideas for Online Entrepreneurs

When you own a business it is extremely important to get your name and business brand out to the public. We, as business owners, are always looking for new and cost effective ways of doing that. We do not want to settle into a routine because it works. We should always be looking for fresh new ideas to spread the word about what we offer with our business.

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How Do You Plan to Grow Big In 2011?

With the new year, it’s time for you to decide and embrace the new ways of doing business that will help you reduce your operational costs, engage with your customers in a better way, and streamline your business processes so that it becomes easier for you to grow BIG when the time comes. Here are the top business-altering trends that will see a huge acceptance in the year 2011.

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50 Must-Hear Lectures for Small Business Owners

Whether you have an MBA or are starting your own business, there's more to learn about business than what you get out of classes and textbooks. Listen to these innovative, insightful and gutsy business leaders who've got a lot to teach you about venture capital, collaboration, the new culture of leadership, and more.

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Growing Your Home Business: Don’t Try To Do It All Alone

If you are running a home-based business, don't try to do it all alone. Get the support you need and focus on the core tasks of your home business.

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Turning Fool’s Gold into Gold

The key to getting more sales is to understand more about how customers buy. Even salespeople with a lot of training make the mistake of focusing more on what they want to accomplish than on what the customer needs to know to make a buying decision.

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