Improve your business forecasting
This unusually mild and snow-free winter calls to mind thoughts of forecasts and how inaccurate they can be. Does your business depend on the weather? Demographics? Economic cycles? Some other outside factor that may or may not be predictable? If so,...

Does Your Business Know When to Stop Selling?
This week's upcoming 'Shark Tank' episode spotlights the importance of learning one often-overlooked overlooked skill: When to stop selling and close the deal.

Prepare Your Business for Facebook Mobile Ads
Facebook Mobile ads are rumored to arrive in March. Here are five things I expect Facebook do with them, and how you can optimize your site in advance.

Business busted for illegally selling contact lenses
Want to change the color of your eyes with cosmetic contact lenses? You’d better make an appointment with an eye professional.

Your Business: Monkey business leads to games success
The New Zealand video game development industry grew by 46 per cent last year, boosted by the huge growth of smartphone and online gaming, according to a survey of developers.Ninja Games, one of the country's most successful game...

Is Facebook advertising right for your small business?
BizBytes 101 shares tips for navigating the issues of social media advertising.

Take a small business health check
IS YOUR business up and coming, going from strength to strength, faltering or failing?

Business watch
After 30-plus years in the feed business, dating back to when his dad, Dick Tarwater, first started selling feed out of an old gas station in North Topeka, Rich Tarwater has a pretty good idea of what it takes to survive.

Business Model Canvas: A Simple Tool For Designing Innovative Business Models
Your business model can make the difference between world-leading success and dismal failure. Just ask the people behind the Xerox 914. In 1959, the first dry-process, plain-paper copier was a potential game-changer — but it cost six times the price of alternatives. Potential partners wouldn't touch it. So the company developed a new business model. Rather than selling the machine, they leased ...

When Your 'Best Business Idea' Gets Stolen
Being an entrepreneur isn't about what you're selling. It's about possessing a complementary set of skills that most people don't have.