Small Business

Symantec cyber-security expert Kevin Haley says small businesses may be more vulnerable to hack attacks during tax season.

A new report from the Chief Actuary of the CMS estimates that two-thirds of small businesses will see premiums rise due to changes in underwriting policies.

Small businesses owners 'In The Know' are watching these key events this week.

If you have a promising idea for a new venture, don't let a lack of funds prevent you from following through. Here are eight tips to bootstrap your way to business success:

Ten entrepreneurs share their strategies for keeping track of their finances. 

Running a small business with only a handful of employees and minimal funding isn't easy, especially when it comes to providing health insurance. Although most microbusiness owners have their own health care benefits, most don't offer this coverage to their employees just yet, new research shows.

When you're running a seasonal business, it's often difficult to stretch the profits you made during the height of your sales throughout the rest of the year. 

Small business loans have gotten a bad reputation over the years. Business owners tend to feel that it's impossible to qualify for such a loan, and even if they do, the process takes too long for the funding to be worth it.

Over the past year, 10 states have voted to increase their minimum wages, and many more states, counties, towns and individual businesses plan to raise, or discuss raising, their hourly employees' pay rates in the coming years.

When you start a business, there are many financing options to consider — friends and family, small business loans, angel investment, VCs — but there is no textbook solution for getting a new business off the ground.

As the tech job sector continues to grow in the United States, there is a constant competition between employers to get the best talent available. 

I hate meetings. I avoid them as much as possible. They bore me and all too often represent a colossal waste of time.

Like consumers with the brands they choose, employees don't all want the same things in an employer, and yet some companies continue to take a "one-size-fits-all" approach to workplace satisfaction.

While applicant tracking systems and automated keyword filtering have certainly made recruiters' lives easier, do applicants feel the same way?

Let's face it: Business meetings are boring. Nobody likes going to them, and you rarely accomplish everything you want to do in the allotted time.

Here are 10 things that may be going wrong that you aren’t aware of — things that will cause your business to unravel.

Ten entrepreneurs share advice for smartly investing in real estate. 

Nine entrepreneurs share their best practices for designing compensation packages for sales staff. 

So, you’ve built a blog and invested a grand amount of time (and money) in creating some of the best content in your niche (these are, naturally, the best pieces you’ve ever written). Yet your analytics tools tell you your post received less than 100 unique visits yesterday.

If you use Facebook to promote your small business but have been reluctant to pull the trigger on paid ads, soon you may have no choice.