Banks Increase Lending to Veteran-Owned Businesses + MORE

Choosing a name for your business is an important step towards your success. Here are six mistakes you should avoid when choosing a name for your small business.

Personal finance expert and author Linsey Knerl tells AllBusiness.com about the best ways for home-based businesses to save money while building a fully functional home office.

To end world hunger, don’t give away money. Just start a business, says Muhammad Yunus.There’s an old adage that goes, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”It’s a principle that can also be applied to solving unemployment, said Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and banker…

Bootstrappers – great news! This article will show you how to promote your small business online for less, even free – with quality, of course! Everything shared here is my own blueprint for you to benefit from… so be sure to share this to your network so they can also benefit from this post…

“I don’t have time for you today. I’m under heaps of deadline pressure to complete a big tender response”. These words were recently spoken to a salesperson in front of me by his Sales Manager, whom I shall call Fred. Being confronted with this wee conversation I began to wonder if such a comment was […

Entrepreneurs usually can’t offer new hires the promise of a hefty salary. But there are ways to get A-list employees without breaking the bank. Here are five budget-friendly techniques to get you there.

As the Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh makes all too clear, the factory jobs in our global supply chain carry significant risks for the millions of people who fill them — the majority of whom are women under the age of 30. Their work lives consist of sitting and standing in dense lines for up to 12 hours a day (sometimes more), cutting fabric, sewing garment pieces together, placing buttons and collars, printing T-shirt designs, and cleaning stray threads…

Small Business Administration announces a new initiative, aimed at increasing lending to veteran-owned businesses over the next five years.

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We spoke with entrepreneurs we admire to cull the single best bit of startup advice they could muster — and the experiences that led to it.

All your friends think you have a glamorous job. Brisbane one day, Darwin the next, then on to Auckland — and back home for the weekend. Of course, you don’t want to burst their bubble. And all you saw of those wonderful cities was the inside of the airports, taxis, your client’s offices and the view from your hotel room — if you were lucky the bulk of your flights were on time…

Outsourcing – especially crowdsourcing – is hot today, and there’s no better chance to learn about the industry right from the world’s largest outsourcing marketplace. Adam Byrnes, International Director of Freelancer.com, shares his insight on crowdsourcing from project owners’ and freelancers’ standpoints in an exclusive Q&A with Noobpreneur…