Small Business

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.

And what can a photo do for your online marketing campaign? That and more in this week’s LOL-inducing, insightful and character-limited words of wisdom that helped me run my business this week.

Whether you are looking to sell your business to fund your retirement or you are ready to enjoy your golden years not working, experts say there are a few steps to take pre-sale to make sure your finances are protected.

While email remains king in the types of digital marketing businesses find successful, other tactics are quickly closing the gap, new research finds.

If you want to boost your bottom line, try balancing the number of men and women in your office, new research suggests.

The majority of businesses favor raising the minimum wage, saying it would raise the standard of living among their employees and give the companies a better chance to hold on to their workers, new research finds.

While the number of companies affected by data breaches is on the rise, so, too, is awareness of the problem, new research finds.

For small business owners, unpaid bills can quickly spell a company’s demise. Here is advice.

This week the 3TechGuys Show with (Brent Leary, Gene Marks and Ramon Ray) – discussed parking, potato salad and Wi-Fi in cars. What might these all have in common? Each represents innovation at its finest.