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We’re highlighting small businesses from around the country as nominated by you, our readers. If your favorite small business is using Twitter to communicate with customers, let us know about it @fbsmallbiz with the hashtag #mysbc, and it may be featured as an upcoming Small Business Spotlight.

We’re highlighting small businesses from around the country as nominated by you, our readers. If your favorite small business is using Twitter to communicate with customers, let us know about it @fbsmallbiz with the hashtag #mysbc, and it may be featured as an upcoming Small Business Spotlight.

We’re highlighting small businesses from around the country as nominated by you, our readers. If your favorite small business is using Twitter to communicate with customers, let us know about it @fbsmallbiz with the hashtag #mysbc, and it may be featured as an upcoming Small Business Spotlight.

Thanks to the Democratic National Convention, businesses in Charlotte, N.C. are getting extra exposure this week.

Small businesses in Tampa are seeing mixed levels of traffic thanks to the GOP’s convention this week. Businesses that are “too close” to the convention center aren’t faring as well as those with some distance between their front door and the RNC.

We’re highlighting small businesses from around the country as nominated by you, our readers. If your favorite small business is using Twitter to communicate with customers, let us know about it @fbsmallbiz with the hashtag #mysbc, and it may be featured as an upcoming Small Business Spotlight.

Mitt Romney has staked his Presidential credentials on his business experience. The former Bain Capital executive is an exceedingly wealthy man whose net worth is estimated in the hundreds of millions. His challenge is to convince average Americans who are struggling economically that he understands their concerns.

How a 31-year-old from San Diego and a 32-year-old from New York are breaking through the glasses ceiling of a $65-billion industry.

Parking Panda is a startup that has nothing to do with pandas but everything to do with making parking easier. 

If small business owners had their way, Gov. Mitt Romney would be the next president of the United States, a new survey shows. With less than three months until the election, the majority (61 percent) of small business owners say they plan to vote for Romney and only 26 percent say they plan to vote for President Barack Obama, a drop of 6 percentage points from May.

At one point or another, we all encounter situations that require us to call on our ability to deal with awkwardness or fear of embarrassment if we speak up. Too many times, we say nothing.

We’re highlighting small businesses from around the country as nominated by you, our readers. If your favorite small business is using Twitter to communicate with customers, let us know about it @fbsmallbiz with the hashtag #mysbc, and it may be featured as an upcoming Small Business of the Day.

Time is money, and here are tips for saving some when navigating an over-filled inbox.

Although the election is five months away, Mitt Romney is the front-runner in the small business community, according to one recent poll.

An overwhelming majority of Americans think our nation would be better off if small business had greater power and influence in Washington, a new survey suggests. Even in this election year, this is one area where Republican, Democratic and independent voters tend to agree.

Petflow’s rethink of how to sell online pet food seems to be clicking: The less-than-two-year-old startup pulled in $2 million in revenue in March alone.

Two Harvard grads set out to reinvent the cluttered beauty industry by selling samples customers could get for free

We’re highlighting small businesses from around the country as nominated by you, our readers. If your favorite small business is using Twitter to communicate with customers, let us know about it @fbsmallbiz with the hashtag #mysbc, and it may be featured as an upcoming Small Business of the Day.

We’re highlighting small businesses from around the country as nominated by you, our readers. If your favorite small business is using Twitter to communicate with customers, let us know about it @fbsmallbiz with the hashtag #mysbc, and it may be featured as an upcoming Small Business of the Day.

We’re highlighting small businesses from around the country as nominated by you, our readers. If your favorite small business is using Twitter to communicate with customers, let us know about it @fbsmallbiz with the hashtag #mysbc, and it may be featured as an upcoming Small Business of the Day.