Small Business

National Small Business Week begins today, and the U.S. Small Business Administration is hosting Google+ Hangouts for small business owners and industry experts.

New research from Kingston University shows a friendly greeting and a smile are the secret to creating customer loyalty.

The Ohio state Senate will vote this week on a tax cut for small business owners said to equal $1.4 billion over two years.

Of course, there are a lot of things you need to do when you’re trying to raise money for your startup. But there are also a lot of things you want to avoid. 

It may be a stretch to say that taxes kill small businesses, but they certainly can hinder them.

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

Pennsylvania lawmakers considering legislation to privatize liquor and wine sales. Some say it’s about time, but what could the pending legislation mean for the “little guy”? Some small business owners worry the bill changes too much, too quickly.

House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves has written a letter to SBA Administrator Karen Mills requesting more information on how the SBA intends to cope with budget cuts due to sequestration.

If, like many small business owners, you have a business listing on Yelp but the reviews are less positive than you’d like, here are four proven ways to increase your star rating.

Scrape away the paint and chrome from most social applications for business and what you usually find is a pale derivative of a personal social site like Facebook. Though these mockingbird sites have become a corporate staple, businesses report their social initiatives usually go nowhere.

Twitter analytics help you improve your social media strategy. They tell you what updates are getting shared, and which links people are clicking on. With that information you can optimize your tweets to get more shares, likes, clicks, and responses.

When you’re purchasing a small business, leasing an office, hiring an employee, selling a product, or trying to get a two-year-old to take one more bite of peas--here are things to keep in mind.

I find that small company business owners often trust too much when they are really busy. Here is advice.

Unfortunately, pricing a service is not as intuitive as a tangible product. Consequently, service businesses too often don’t charge enough to sustain themselves profitably. Here is advice.

Small business borrowing will be a lot different in 2025. Here’s how.

Of the dozen-plus small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) FOXBusiness.com called, only two confirmed they were on their way to making the switch. In fact, 69% of SMBs doubt their ability to upgrade payment terminals for EMV-compliance by the fall, according to a new Software Advice survey.

Looking to replicate the wealth and job creation seen in Silicon Valley, burgeoning tech communities are forming throughout the globe. Chicago, part of the region known as “Silicon Prairie” has seen some of its internet companies, including Groupon, Gogo, and GrubHub, grow from startup to IPO.

Here are 12 e-commerce strategies you should plan to implement in 2014.

 Here is a FOX Small Business Spotlight on Gorilla Cheese NYC, which is on Twitter @gcnyc1.

Here are four opportunities companies miss out on when they ban March Madness in the workplace.