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Are you a small business owner with an amazing success story to tell? If so, submit your nomination today for SBA’s National Small Business Week awards.

In honor of Women’s Small Business Month, the U.S. Small Business Administration (@SBAgov) will host a Twitter chat on October 26 at 3:00 p.m. EDT.

Generally speaking, the franchise business model is a good one. Over the years, it’s enabled thousands of people to start businesses.

October is National Women’s Small Business Month. Seems hard to believe today, but thirty years ago, some state laws prevented women from getting a business loan without having a male relative co-sign for it.

The Washington State Small Business Development Center (WSBDC) has perfected the art of building productive partnerships to help Washington companies, notably rural ones, achieve export success.

Tax reform is “the single most critical piece of legislation” that needs to happen in Washington. That’s a personal plea I heard not from a lawmaker or a lobbyist or even the President, but from a small business owner in Pittsburgh.

Should you finance or lease business equipment? Although both options help break down the overall cost of business equipment into smaller amounts, they are very different in how they’re set up.

David and Linda Shogren are the duo behind U.S. International Foods LLC, a Missouri-based small business that specializes in exporting high quality food and grocery products abroad.

Born to a single mother in Argentina, Lorena Cantarovici says she grew up constantly on the verge of homelessness.

It may be the season for ghosts and goblins, but ghastly creatures aren’t the only things that can haunt a small business owner. Making any one of the 7 common marketing mistakes below can have frightening consequences for your small business.