Small Business

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

Whether it’s because a business overextended itself or had the right product or service at the wrong time, bankruptcies can happen to any-sized company at any time. Knowing your options ahead of time can help make the process less painful.

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?

While we tend to look at firing someone in a negative light, it doesn’t necessarily have to be that way. Here is advice.

For Robert Talbott, a luxury fashion brand founded in 1950 and based in Monterrey, Calif., the holiday season brings along with cheer the chance to expand their reach outside of the West Coast.

According to the ADP Small Business Report, small businesses created 41% of all new jobs in the private sector in September.

Even if consumers really like a product or service, they're not likely to share those feelings on Facebook or Twitter, new research suggests.

Offering a retirement savings vehicle isn’t going to be too costly, but doing nothing will. Here’s why.

Here are 5 ways to help team members quickly shed post-vacation blues and get back in the groove of work.

As high-profile security breaches continue to mount, it is becoming increasing clear that businesses can't just sit back and hope they don't become a victim.

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.

While your business may not be the target of another country, it could be the bullseye for a disgruntle employee, an upset customer or just the luck of the draw, which is why security experts say you can learn a lot from Sony’s nightmare.

While LinkedIn is still the social network of choice for both job candidates and hiring managers, Facebook is starting to gain ground, new research shows.