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Starting a new business is tough these days, so you need all the help you can get.

12/19/2010 12:00 AM

Seasonality poses challenges

The Christmas lights are up and the cash registers are ringing.

12/12/2010 12:00 AM
Center helps create, save jobs

After spending an hour with Dan St. Louis and Tony Whitener, the director and special project director, respectively, of the Manufacturing Solutions Center, your head will start to swim.

12/07/2010 9:55 AM
Tips for giving to customers

Earlier this month I sent an e-mail out to a group of my small business friends asking them what they did during the holiday season to thank their customers for their business.

11/29/2010 10:38 AM
Combine existing ideas in new ways

Have you ever spent time wracking your brain to come up with the next Big Idea that will take your company to the next level or wipe out your competition?

11/22/2010 10:55 AM
Start working on 2011 budget now

For me, budgeting is kind of like eating vegetables.

11/15/2010 10:25 AM
Prepare to close books on 2010

Thanksgiving is on the horizon, and year-end is within sight.

11/08/2010 11:40 AM
Choose partners carefully

Happy Halloween, the perfect day to share another small business nightmare.

11/01/2010 10:09 AM
Outsourcing can be scary

Perhaps because I was brought up on Scooby-Doo cartoons with the scary monsters, (the classic pre-Scrappy-Doo era), I’ve always been a sucker for the creepy decorations and ghoulish tales of Halloween.

10/26/2010 10:25 AM
Business keeps on brewing

Is there a secret to business longevity?

10/18/2010 11:46 AM
LinkedIn good tool for business

Perhaps it was Tom Sawyer who first embraced the “work smarter, not harder” mantra when he convinced his friends to whitewash his aunt’s picket fence.

10/11/2010 11:52 AM
Manage your cash wisely

Check almost any book or article for reasons why small businesses fail and you’ll find mention of inadequate capital or poor cash management.

10/04/2010 10:23 AM
Hard work, creativity pay

It’s a gloomy business environment out there with anemic demand, high unemployment and low consumer optimism.

09/27/2010 11:26 AM
Help build creative economy

What do you think of when you hear the phrase “creative economy”?

09/20/2010 10:56 AM
Plant the seeds of creativity

I’ve come to the conclusion that there are few if any new business ideas.

09/13/2010 11:15 AM
Pricing crucial to success

We’re all looking for value, although we each define value a little differently.

09/07/2010 11:38 AM
Back to school means big business

I’m pleased to report that my kids, along with the rest of the kids in the area, returned to school this week.

08/30/2010 12:27 PM
Want a bank loan? Prepare well

We always need a group to beat up on. For a long time it was the lawyers.

08/19/2010 9:13 AM
Startups crucial to area economy

The good news is the unemployment rate in our metropolitan statistical area consisting of Hickory, Morganton, Taylorsville and Lenoir has decreased from 15.7 percent in January to 13 percent in June.

08/19/2010 9:10 AM
MANAGEMENT MOMENT

Power Point: So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work— Peter Drucker

01/20/2009 2:52 PM
Retail Notes: Shoo the economic hobgoblins

Halloween might just be a treat for retailers this year.

10/05/2008 12:00 AM
A Flea for All: Flea markets are attracting quite a few first-time vendors

Ben and Wanda Daggs spent last year driving to trade shows up and down the East Coast to market their line of lifejackets for children. This year, they are staying closer to home. The couple began renting a weekend booth a month ago at Cooks Flea Market on Patterson Avenue in Winston-Salem in hopes of saving on gas and reaching a bigger customer base for their products, sold under the Aquadux brand name.

08/24/2008 12:00 AM