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Creativity counts in hard times, so a mobile home business in Alabama decided to release a self-deprecating, hilarious ad on YouTube to attract customers. Click to watch the commercial and see why over 625,000 people have watched it after just a couple weeks.

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A new group of small business entrepreneurs are taking the spotlight at Tampa, Florida's Hillsborough County Jail. Inmates at this minimum security facility are brewing and selling their own line of hot sauces.

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For small businesses that sell online, the importance of protecting customer data is a given. Unfortunately, the best security and privacy practices in the world are useless unless you first secure the customer's trust -- no easy task in today's world. Click to see three steps you can take to ensure customers are comfortable doing business at your site.

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As a small company, you probably have employees in remote locations. No doubt, there are many management and communications issues. Yes, it's often the case that things slow down -- or even fights break out. While e-mail is helpful, it is usually not enough. Rather, it's worth looking at online collaboration tools.

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Having your cake and eating it, too, used to be the hallmark of success, but as Jessica Cervantes has learned, it's even better if you just sell it instead. Click to see how this young entrepreneur turned her cupcakes-on-a-stick idea into a growing business.

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The small-business website seems to be one of the simplest things to launch today, but before you buy an off-the-shelf website, understand what you're buying and what you need for your business.

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These days, it's not enough to build a good website; to reach customers online, you have to reach them on their mobile phones. Here are two free tools for adapting your site for the small screen.

When businesses try to market products and services via endorsements on blogs targeted at moms, it pays to understand the rules of the road.