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New survey reveals the U.S. metropolitan areas where small-businesses are doing best (and worst).

In the end, the only person that is going to look after your financial best interest is you.

Promotion is the primary key to increasing business in 2010. With tweets, facebookers, diggers and doers, the place to begin your promotional campaign may be the closest concierge desk you can find.

Twitter has become a hot topic in the online world and many companies are using Twitter to improve their customer service. Since I’ll be writing more about Twitter and it’s role in providing...

A battered economy can sometimes provide just the right circumstances for a new business. Here's how 10 companies found success during the Great Depression.

Large franchise organizations are often the bane of independent small businesses, but so-called union "card check" legislation has made them political bedfellows.

When customers are looking to buy something, right now. Or when they are just browsing for information - one of the items that catches their eye on the search engines is the cost...

The Green Revolution is real and growing, and small businesses should be leading the charge. But are they?

A $54 million lawsuit against a Washington, D.C. dry cleaner was tossed out of court this week, but the case might have ended differently if it had been filed in one of these...

When the sign went bright boasting Foodies and Fashionistas meet at the new Westfield Centre in San Francisco last week few knew of the culinary extravaganza that awaited in the space referred to...

Finally, the food court concept has experienced a remake. With the bustle of Bloomingdales above, the transformed basement of Westfield San Francisco Centre, the big daddy of malls west of the Mississippi, attracted...

Americans love a celebration. They aren´t about to let a little thing like record-high gas prices stop them from whooping it up in honor of America´s birthday on July 4. More than 53...

This is an update to an article I wrote earlier this month. It was about our July 4th weekend getaway and how one of our favorite hotel chains let us down in a...