Editor's Weekly Pick
Small Business Owners: Hire People Smarter than You
Author: Ivan Widjaya
Small business owners – admit this: At times, your ego won’t let other
people to be better, smarter, more talented, and wealthier than you.
Your ego can help you become a tough competitor. However, most of the
times, your ego damages your business potential. One of the business
issues where your ego will determine the outcome is employee
recruitment.
NEW TIPS AND ADVICE 
Working together could be to your advantage
Author: Louise Barnes-Johnston
I was at a networking meeting recently, chatting with a book-keeper and
a virtual assistant. I suggested to them that they consider doing some
joint marketing as they have the same target market but are in
non-competing businesses. I left them talking together as ideas
started coming thick & fast!
Using peer-to-peer lending to fund your small business
Author: Gary Barzel
With
all the dismal talk surrounding the economy and the subsequent
belt-tightening of the lending industry, peer-to-peer, or P2P, lending
has been a warm ray of light and hope. It is the natural outgrowth of
an increasing demand for financial assistance coupled with the
versatility and social reality of the Internet. Through peer-to-peer
lending, consumers and small businesses can access loans from other
people on the Internet while avoiding banks or credit cards.
How to grow your business without borrowing
Author: Sue Hirst
Those who’ve
attempted to get new lending or renew an existing loan will know how hard it
is right now, so how do you grow your
business without borrowing? As a result of the credit crunch, banks have pretty
much shut up shop in terms
of business lending to both small and
medium sized businesses.
Writing that sales proposal - How to help tilt the decision in your favor
Author: Neil Sawers
Imagine-this
person, or persons, may have to spend many hours reading several
proposals, evaluating them according to specific criteria, and then
come up with a decision. Given the pace of today's business, that
reading, that decision, could happen late at night or over the weekend.
That's the nature of the beast. So even when finding the right
organization is really important for the client, it can also be a chore.
Stop wasting your time with social media
Author: John Jantsch
If you have no precise marketing strategy, or even a simple set of
marketing goals, social media participation will only serve as a
glorious way to highlight that your business is precisely like every
other business that says they do what you do. (That’s a nice way of
saying you are doomed to compete on price.)
