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The Latest Questions Small Businesses Are Asking

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Are there enough customers willing to buy your products, often enough, at a profitable price that your business can pay all expenses and provide a decent living wage to owners? If not, the business idea is not feasible. Look honestly at all the pros and cons for this type of business venture. Often this is not true.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

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This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. So, you’re a small or medium-sized business, and you want to build a Facebook, mobile or web app. Image credits: Flickr, goincase.

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My Favorite 2014 Trend is Boomer-Millenial Partnerships

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Every year around this time I look forward to Steve King’s small business trends for the next year. And I just read his Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2014 and once again, it’s great food for thought. Baby boomers provide capital, business experience and networks. My personal favorite this year is this: 8.

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How to Calculate ROI For a Small Business

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A common definition of ROI is “a profitability measure that evaluates the performance of a business by dividing net profit by net worth.” ” In a small business, the uses of ROI could be to measure the performance of pricing policies, an investment in capital equipment, or an inventory investment.

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Optimism in the Face of Uncertainty: A Look at Small Business in 2017

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My neighborhood of Alberta in Portland, Oregon, where small local businesses are plentiful. If you’re considering making the leap and starting your own business, you’re likely eager to ensure that you’re making a smart decision. Is now really a good time to start a business? There’s a sense of real optimism.”

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What’s an SBDC and Why You Want to Know

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If you’re serious about starting a business, growing a business that already exists or managing your business better, and you’re in the United States, then you ought to know where the nearest SBDC is. That stands for Small Business Development Center. There are about 1,000 of them in the United States.

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The Next Generation Of Funding For The Next Generation Of Entrepreneurs

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Startups are hungry for credit, but banks and other financial institutions have never been stricter with their financing parameters. They’re using metrics that are often unworkable in the current business environment, causing growing businesses to look elsewhere for capital and increasingly towards alternative forms of financing.