Keys to Creating a Small Business Website

In some cases, small business owners decide to create their own sites. This must be done with care and intelligence. Here are a few questions all business owners with a Web presence should ask themselves in order to help set their site on its way into the World Wide Web.

Does your site have enough content? One of the most common mistakes a small business website can make is to provide insufficient content. Not only do visitors need to understand what your business is about, so do the search engines.

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Top 7 Ways To Succeed With Business Etiquette

In the business world today, there is little difference between goods and services from one company to another. What truly sets you and your business apart from the competition is your relationships and your people skills. The best way to improve your people skills is to learn and use the rules of business etiquette. Business etiquette isn’t meant to be stuffy or formal. It’s really about being kind, considerate and respectful. Learn the top seven ways to success with business etiquette and you will see the results in your bottom line and your enhanced client relationships.

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Business Management Veteran Offers Suggestions for Survival in Stormy Economy

Small business and technology advisor Barry White (not the singer), who wrote the following article, brought nearly three decades of business management experience to his current post as director of the SBTDC at Missouri University of Science & Technology in Rolla. He spent 25 years in retail management with the Army-Air Force Exchange Service at military bases from Minot, N.D. to the Philippines.

Here, White offers a bit of advice to small business owners and operators to help them weather the current storms buffeting the local, national and world economies.

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Buy or rent office space? Here's how to decide

Sooner or later, every business has to consider whether it is better off owning or leasing office space. From law firms to retailers to yoga studios, the decision varies. But here are some elements that most small businesses take into account.

The cash outlay factor: Generally, you don't need to put out as much money upfront when you lease as you do when you buy. A quick example: A real-estate agent is looking to sell a $500,000 commercial property. Someone leasing the space might pay around $4,000 monthly in rent.

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One Idea for Building the Economy and Jobs through Green Building

The numbers we’ve seen recently reveal a small-business-dominated construction sector flat on its back. New housing starts for fourth quarter 2008 were down to just 550,000 units (on an annual basis) in December, just one-quarter of the 2005 level . And in January, housing starts sank to the lowest level since these numbers began to be tracked in 1959.

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