Category: THE Small Business Expert Blog

Trying to find your best small business growth strategy? First you need to get serious!

Which do you have more to spend: time or money? Consider that question as you plan how you will promote your small business. In very general terms, you’ll want to commit yourself to an extensive marketing effort if you have time to spend. If you have money to spend, then you’ll probably want to invest […]

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3 Free Research Tools to Improve Your SEO Keyword Effectiveness

To say that the competition in the content marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) worlds for commanding good keywords is fierce would be an extreme understatement. In fact – and I’ll say a little more about this at the conclusion of this article – if you’ve been trying to compete solely by winning good “organic” […]

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Small Business Gets a Voice on Over Regulation. Finally.

The cost of government regulations is staggering and it’s a cost that only goes one way: Up. I just clicked over to the Federal Register website, where you can search and access regulations published since 1994 and on one single Monday, 26 new rules were published. There’s an old saying about “the straw that broke […]

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A List of Crowdfunding Platforms and Related Services to Mark the New SEC Rules

Good things come to those who wait. Will this proverb prove true for the new crowdfunding regulations that took effect today (May 16, 2016)? You can get all the details on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission website (SEC), but the main upshot of today’s changes is to open crowdfunding investments to non-accredited investors, meaning […]

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