Many small business owners are already well versed in writing and managing a blog. Others are just getting started. No matter your level of experience, it’s important to remember blogs can be more informal than traditional business correspondence.  Here are some key guidelines to writing a blog post: Be concise. Once you’ve written your first draft, start cutting words.  After you’re done, continue to edit your post.  Eliminate extra adjectives or explanatory clauses.  Blogs are often as...

By Reed Richardson. On the heels of national Small Business Month in May, we compiled a broad statistical portrait of the state of the nation’s entrepreneurs, using data drawn from a number of private and governmental sources. In Part I of our series, which covered the demographic and fiscal state of our nation’s small businesses, we learned that entrepreneurs were often battered but remained undaunted by the recent economic headwinds blowing against them and that they appear confident about...