By Rieva Lesonsky

Black Friday—the day after Thanksgiving, and traditionally a huge sales day for retailers—has a new partner. American Express OPEN and more than a dozen advocacy, public and private organizations have declared November 27 “Small Business Saturday.”…

A USB drive is such a handy, inexpensive way to transport information that technology research analyst Gartner estimates 222 million USB devices shipped last year. But in some instances, those devices transport trouble as well.

Small businesses in…

A USB drive is such a handy, inexpensive way to transport information that technology research analyst Gartner estimates 222 million USB devices shipped last year. But in some instances, those devices transport trouble as well.

Small businesses in…

One of the Marketing Track sessions I attended at the GrowSmartBiz Conference had a great title–Stories, Content, and the Search Engine Sword Over Your Head–and delivered useful information in spades.  No matter how new or established your business, this session…

The following is a guest post from Andy Cook.  Andy is founder and chief geek at Rentabilities, a web startup that <a…

Social media may get all the ink, but it is not getting most of the dollars – at least not from small businesses, says a new report.

The majority of small companies will plow most of their marketing…

If you've been in IT for a while, there's a term you have likely heard called "paving the cow path." It's a concept I first wrote about back in the 1980s, and it comes from observing the path cows take…