10 Secrets For Better Focusing Your Business

Focusing your goals and approach in your business is the same whether your are tweaking an existing venture or starting a new one. In this edition of the Small Business Trends Community News and Information Roundup, we scoured the best business blogs and communities...

Do You Tell Yourself These Common Entrepreneur Lies?

In order to stay positive, entrepreneurs need to lie to themselves a lot. Unfortunately, this can get them into trouble when they have improbable expectations and surprising outcomes as a result. Below are the 7 biggest lies and the truth about what to do instead:...

5 Additional Types of Business Insurance to Consider

You probably already have a number of insurance policies: Business owner’s policy (BOP) to provide protection for your property. Liability coverage for third parties Workers’ compensation for your employees Auto coverage for any business vehicles. Health insurance....

Fight Off the Summer Slump With These 3 Marketing Tips

The term “summer slump” presents a pressing problem for a lot of small businesses. It seems like there’s always a point during the summer when sales begin to dwindle, productivity winds down, and everything sort of grinds to a halt until fall. This can be a bit...

The “Functionally” Unemployed

Jobenomics received numerous positive comments about the Functionally Unemployed mentioned in several of our recent articles (Unemployment Scoreboard: Feb 2012, and 35% “Functionally” Unemployed Rate). Jobenomics defines functional unemployment as the total number of...

The Dangers of the Minimal Viable Product

A movement originating from the United States’ West Coast has sought to transform the creation of new businesses from an art to a science. The intellectual leader of the movement is Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur who now teaches at Stanford and the...

Wisconsin Equal Pay Law Repealed

As Jessica Pieklo reported yesterday, the Governor of Wisconsin, with little notice or discussion, repealed the state’s Equal Pay law.  For Scott Walker, it was no doubt the most logical step in his ongoing war on women and the working class, as the Equal Pay Law...

9 Free Online PR Tools for Business

Believe it or not, there are a ton of great free online PR tools that business owners can take advantage of. Since we’ve been in business as an online PR agency, we’ve tried just about every tool, tactic and trick you can think of (and probably some you can’t). After...