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Whether you own a small business, manage a large one, or even just work in a setting with two other employees, chances are you are going to run into conflict in the workplace. And others may be depending on you to help solve the problem.

Entrepreneurs and the companies they lead are different—and that’s exactly what makes working in this field, in matching entrepreneurs with the right resource at the right time, both exhilarating and challenging. “An entrepreneur is an entrepreneur.” People want to believe that anyone who starts businesses—any kind of business—are the same. That they have the same challenges, the same needs, the same motivation, the same desires, the same end game—that they want to and deliver the same economic impact. And that’s simply not true. Not all entrepreneurs want to create billion dollar businesses. Not all entrepreneurs want to scale to massive growth within the next three years. Not all entrepreneurs want to live their business, working a brutal schedule to leave a lasting legacy. Entrepreneurs and the companies they lead are different—and that’s exactly what makes working in this field, in matching entrepreneurs with the right resource at the right time, both exhilarating and challenging. Which is a good thing, because our economy is based on many different kinds of businesses and each play a different role in defining an economy.

The Wall Street Journal recently posted an article describing various social media tools, and their success rates as described by poll respondents. Read on to learn what they were, and how you can implement them into your business!

In early February, the new President of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Tom McDonnell, presented the fourth State of Entrepreneurship address, focused on financing entrepreneurial growth. Remarks focused on the levels of entrepreneurial activity in the United States and the hurdles facing young companies as they seek capital. Challenges in bank financing, IPOs and venture capital funding were addressed, resulting in several policy recommendations, including...

Local advertising was easier when there were only a few advertising outlets from which to choose. With the internet, social media, and smart phones drastically changing the game, advertising to local markets has become more and more challenging. Here are some tips to help your business engage with its community in a cost-effective manner.

How will the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) affect your small business?

To whom do you turn when you feel like your small business is lost and adrift on unfriendly waters?

Well, are they born or made? Read on to find out...

How important is branding? Pretty important. Read on to discover why, and how you can utilize it to better your business.

RSS feed readers allow you to have timely, organized, articles delivered to you as they are published. In this post I’m going to show you how to setup and use and RSS feed reader to have news articles and content delivered straight to you.