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Why Everyone Wants Small Businesses as Customers

Small Business Labs

.   This fact was highlighted in a letter sent to the management team of Office Depot by the Hedge Fund Starboard.  They recently bought 13% of Office Depot's stock and are pushing the company to restructure. Google, eBay and Intuit are good examples.  These are: 1. and global economy.

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Disruptive Innovation and Small Business Lending

Small Business Labs

We contributed an article to Banking.com discussing how non-traditional small business lenders - including folks like Wal-Mart, Office Depot, Google and others - are starting to provide small business credit services.    We hope we're right on this.   

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Small Business world News Round-up - 2009/10/27

The Small Business Blog

Small Business world News Round-up – 2009/10/27 by Stefan Töpfer on Oct 27, 2009 Here is this week’s news round-up for home business, micro business, sole-traders, freelancers, self-employed and any one who is interested in small business news from around the world. — ST. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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How to Organize Business Cards & Networking Conversations - Interview & Giveaway @ContactKeeper

Stephanie LH Calahan

When you attend tradeshows or networking meetings, do you later experience the business card pile up? Do you have great conversations and then get back to your office and either forget action steps or details from the conversation? No more missed follow-ups because you forgot the conversation! The time is now!

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12 Business Productivity Tools They Can Not Live Without.

Stephanie LH Calahan

You can find it here: Office Max/Office Depot. Schedule = Success My favorite is: There is no tool more useful to me than an electronic calendar (Outlook, ACT, Thunderbird, Google, it doesn't matter what brand.) I set up recurring appointments for things like bookkeeping or marketing. Celebrate success!

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