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Here are five goals to work toward in the year ahead.

Is a lack of capital or staff holding you back from achieving your business goals? Putting your dreams on hold isn’t the only choice. Here are some options to consider.

The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) releases new framework for small- and medium-sized businesses to provide simpler, more cost-effective and relevant guidelines for financial statements.

How would you use a Shark-Tank investment to grow your business? Here are tips for attracting a 'shark.'

Smart salespeople make it easier for customers to listen. Better listeners are more satisfied customers. Here are tips.

Get these factors right — keep these factors as the basis for every business and marketing decision — and things are going to work out. On the other hand, ignore these simple truths and growing a business will always feel like a hard, confusing struggle.

Disengaged workers are less likely to be productive, according to Gallup research. Here are three leadership trends that may be able to turn a dysfunctional workforce into a more profitable one.

Building and developing a successful sales team is not an easy task for any leader. Here are five fundamental lessons for any training manual.

When employees are working hard because they want to, as opposed to because they have to, it’s a win-win.  

Thanksgiving is the time to appreciate and acknowledge the people in your life. It’s a good time to give thanks to those who work hard and produce results for your company. Here are five ways to do it.

The saying, “an elephant doesn’t get fat ignoring the peanuts,” makes a lot of business sense.

How can you best motivate 'Gen Y' in the workplace?

A ruling recently released by the US Department of the Treasury now allows for identity protection measures called ‘Truncated Taxpayer Identification Numbers,’ also known as ‘SSN Masking,’ to be applied to all recipient tax return copies, including 1099-MISC and W-2 forms.

During tax season, many business owners provide me their tax data in various ways:  boxes of receipts, clumps of expenses stapled together with adding machine tape totaling each type of expense, or a listing of income and expenses in a spreadsheet format. 

The face of the legendary Duke is hitting the shelves in supermarkets across the country. Ethan Wayne, son of the silver-screen hero, explains the idea behind the product launch.

One of the things entrepreneurs are proud of is being forward thinking. We invent and utilize new technologies and business ideas and consumers tend to follow. Well, sometimes it’s consumers who take the lead and business owners are the ones who have to catch up.

Although you may have the greatest product or a brilliant idea for your startup, you need something else.

PayPal is expanding its Blueprint program. Now, startups participating in 18 incubators and accelerators will receive free processing for up to $1.5 million in payments.

With This Land, Marine Corps veteran Dan McCready is hoping to shed a spotlight on some of the United States’ most talented artisans and craftspeople.

A new Citibank Small Business Pulse survey shows the small business outlook is improving, but many owners are still dipping into their own savings to keep the business going.