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Getting The Financing Your Small Business Needs

Find small business financing.

Finding the business start up funding or money to expand your established business can be a tricky process, especially when money is tight. Learn how to prevent your small business funding search from turning into a wild goose chase.

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Top 10 Start Up Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Starting a Business

Wednesday May 16, 2012

Business start up is always a stressful time, as no one knows how successful a new business will be until the start up period is over.

Start up mistakes you want to avoid.

And then there are those people who are their own worst enemies, people trying to develop new businesses who inadvertently do things that sabotage their new business's chances of success.

In The Top 10 Business Start Up Mistakes, Cherilyn Lester summarizes what she thinks are the main business start up mistakes people make.

What do you think? Are these the worst start up mistakes people make? Or are there worse ones? Add your thoughts on the Most Common Business Start up Mistakes People Make here.

And please take a moment to vote in this poll that asks what the worst start up mistake is.

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Should Your Business Use Pinterest? And If So, How?

Tuesday May 15, 2012

Pinterest is so hot that your mouse fingers sizzle when you use it.

Pinterest.

Just kidding!

But the newest social media contender is growing exponentially and has a very pleasing market demographic (users are mostly women aged 25 to 54).

Does that mean that your business should sign right up and join the Pinterest rush? Read Should Your Business Use Pinterest? to find out.

And if you decide that Pinterest is right for your business, you'll definitely want to read 7 Tips on How Best to Use Pinterest for Business.

More Articles on Using Social Media for Business

Pinterest logo designed by Michael Deal and Juan Carlos Pagan.

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About Small Business Canada: Weekly Roundup May 8 to May 14

Sunday May 13, 2012

Think you may have missed something this week at About Small Business Canada? Here's your round-up of everything I've done in the past week at About Small Business Canada so you can catch up with all the new content, blog posts, updates to older articles, and new reader submissions!

New Articles and Features

Should Your Business Use Pinterest?

How to Best Use Pinterest for Business

Blog Posts

How Did You Get Into Starting a Small Business?

How to Improve Your Business Networking

4 Sources of Micro Loans for Starting Your Canadian Small Business

Canadian Small Businesses Needed for CBC Show The BIG Decision

What You Need to Know About Starting a Small Business

The Best Color Laser Printers for Small Businesses

About Small Business Canada: Weekly Roundup May 1 to May 7

Updated Articles

5 Inexpensive Online CRM Solutions for Small Businesses

8 Mobile Marketing Strategies for Small Business

Best Digital Recorders Under 100 Dollars

Top Father's Day Gifts for Business Dads

Top 7 Reasons Why Your Small Business Should Use Twitter

New Reader Submissions

Sample Vision Statements

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How Did You Get Into Starting a Small Business?

Sunday May 13, 2012

There are lots of different paths to starting a small business. For some people, starting a small business is a logical choice after a university degree in business while others choose starting a small business after losing jobs. Still others leave jobs to start their own businesses because they've spotted a small business idea that "just can't miss".

Share your starting a small business story here.

I'm sure all of us can learn from it, whether we're at the stage of thinking of starting a small business of our own or already running one. And there's a place on the form where you can tell everyone about your business (a little free advertising).

More Places to Have Your Say & Share

Here are some more topics where you can share your tips and advice with other small business people:

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