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Event Recap: 4/30 Webinar: Rock Star Entrepreneurs and Your Business

Yesterday we had a great event and the first of its kind on our small business blog, GrowSmartBusiness.com
This event was moderated by Network Solutions CEO, Roy Dunbar and included a stellar panel of small business owners and experts to discuss a range of topics covering current small business trends, the challenges and success stories of [...]

Reminder: 4/30 Webinar: Rock Star Entrepreneurs and Your Business

If you haven’t heard already we have a webcast at 2pm EST on Mogulus at http://www.mogulus.com/networksolutions
Here are the details:

Some talented business thinkers, leaders, movers-and-shakers are headed to the Internet near you!
Ideas will soar at this event (and you’re invited).
(image by Jody Art, Creative Commons)
Small business success, brainstorms, and you
At the end of this month, Grow [...]

Grow Smart Business Webinar Interview with Tom Heath of The Washington Post

Thomas Heath covers small businesses for The Washington Post. He is also a panelist on next week’s GrowSmartBusiness Webinar (next Thursday, April 30 at 2pm ET). We’re interviewing all panelists for their insights on the small business challenges revealed in the Small Business Success Index. You can read Tom’s interview below, follow him on Twitter [...]

Grow Smart Business Webinar Interview with Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends

Anita Campbell, Editor of Small Business Trends will be one of five panelists on the GrowSmartBusiness Webinar (next Thursday, April 30 at 2pm ET). Her well-rounded expertise will shed light on two of the biggest challenges for small businesses –marketing and finance – as revealed in the Small Business Success Index. We asked Anita to [...]

Get Your Hand Off Your Wallet And Your Head Out Of Your…

Let me be very honest, starting a business costs money.  Starting a successful business…still costs money.  Getting the marketing pieces and materials you’ll need to do the bare minimum to promote your business effectively…will cost money.
Does spending a lot of money guarantee you are going to be successful?  No, but spending it smartly does help.  [...]

Five Do’s For Consulting Newbies

With over 533,000 people laid off since November 2008 as reported by Forbes.com, it’s no surprise that many people choose to start their own business and become consultants. If you’re just jumping into the field as an independent consultant or starting a new consulting business, here are five do’s to follow.
1. Do focus on your [...]

Rock Star Entrepreneurs and Your Business: a Webinar Event 4/30th

Some talented business thinkers, leaders, movers-and-shakers are headed to a browser near you!
Ideas will soar at this event (and you’re invited).
(image by Jody Art, Creative Commons)
Small business success, brainstorms, and you
At the end of this month, Grow Smart Business – a new Network Solutions blog, resource hub, and home to the Small Business Success Index [...]

Rules for Entrepreneurs #4 – 5 Ways to Avoid Small Business Death by $100 Expenses

When I started my first business as an adult and left the warm blanket of a steady paycheck I also left the fuzzy fun of expense reports. Those detailed reports on excel spreadsheets full of stapled pages of photocopied receipts that we got paid back on eventually (usually in 2-4 weeks) and were part of [...]

Marketing Plan Financials in Plan English – Sales Cash Flow – Part 15 of the 2009 Marketing Plan Series

In this final section of our “Marketing Plan Financials in Plan English” sections and our final part of the “Marketing Plan Series”, we discuss the topic of Cash Flow Analysis.  This part of the marketing plan financials is there to demonstrate how your marketing group/division will maintain a cash positive nature based on budgeting and [...]

Marketing Plan Financials in Plan English – Breakeven Analysis – Part 14 of the 2009 Marketing Plan Series

We continue talking plain English with you in this fun and crazy world of marketing plan financials and move on to the all important Breakeven Analysis. The Breakeven Analysis is especially useful when you’re developing a pricing strategy, either as part of a marketing plan or a business plan. The Breakeven Analysis is actually pretty [...]