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How to Get Your Product on Walmart Shelves

Tired of your small business getting crushed by Walmart? If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. @WalmartLabs, Walmart’s social, mobile and retail eCommerce innovation division, has launched an online contest called Get on the Shelf, where small business owners and entrepreneurs can enter their product for the opportunity to literally get on Walmart shelves. What’s the prize? Spot on Walmart store shelves Featured placement on Walmart.com Marketing support Advise on scaling up to meet Walmart demand How do you enter? The [...]

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January 19, 20122

How to Get Your Product on Walmart Shelves

Tired of your small business getting crushed by Walmart? If you can’t beat ‘em, join...
January 17, 20120

What Kind of Entrepreneur Are You? [INFOGRAPHIC]

BizSugar, the small business news sharing and discovery site, published a fun infographic on entrepreneurs...
November 27, 20116

Small Business Resources You May Have Missed This Past Week on Firmology November 27, 2011

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Strategy

January 17, 20120

What Kind of Entrepreneur Are You? [INFOGRAPHIC]

BizSugar, the small business news sharing and discovery site, published a fun infographic on entrepreneurs...
November 23, 20110

Firmology’s Ultimate Last-Minute Guide to Small Business Saturday 2011

We’re just a few days away from Small Business Saturday, the shopping holiday between Black...
November 14, 20110

Tips for Bringing New Remote Hires Up-to-Speed at Your Small Business

A great way to expand your small business workforce is to hire remote workers, especially if you...

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Commerce

September 12, 20110

How to Turn Groupon into a Powerful and Effective Weapon for Your Small Business

Groupon and hundreds of other deal-of-the-day coupon services have exploded in popularity the last...
August 2, 20111

Warby Parker: The Toms Shoes and Zappos of Eyeglasses

Ever wonder why the cost of eyeglasses is so high? Neil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa wondered the...
July 12, 20110

Braintree Simplifies Credit Card Payment Processing for Small Business

One of the most frustrating and confusing steps of launching a business is navigating the treacherous...

The Ikea of Children’s Retail

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Social Media

November 16, 20110

LinkedIn Relaunches CardMunch, the iPhone App That Will End the Use of Business Cards

Although I was excited to get my first batch of Firmology business cards (free from Moo!), I dislike...
November 9, 20110

How Small Businesses Are Using the Web [INFOGRAPHIC]

Intuit, the Silicon-Valley based financial software company, published a new infographic on how...
October 28, 20112

How to Use Facebook to Find Employees for Your Small Business

We’ve stressed the importance of small business owners establishing a presence on LinkedIn...

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Mobile

November 22, 20112

Amazon Selling All Non-iPhone Smartphones for $.01 Including Motorola Droid Razr

If you haven’t heard already, Amazon has declared war against Apple by having a MONSTER Penny-pincher...
November 16, 20110

LinkedIn Relaunches CardMunch, the iPhone App That Will End the Use of Business Cards

Although I was excited to get my first batch of Firmology business cards (free from Moo!), I dislike...
August 31, 20110

5 Mobile Marketing Tips for Small Business

When it comes to mobile marketing, the first thing most small business owners think of is sending...

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Technology

November 24, 20110

10 Black Friday Gadget Deals for Small Business Owners

Now that Thanksgiving dinner is over, you’re probably sitting on your couch planning your...
November 21, 20111

7 Cloud-based Web Applications Every Small Business Owner Should Use

Although we mainly focus on cloud-based web applications for small business here on Firmology, sometimes...
November 9, 20110

How Small Businesses Are Using the Web [INFOGRAPHIC]

Intuit, the Silicon-Valley based financial software company, published a new infographic on how...

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Small Business Tools & Resources

HR/Recruiting Platform Hireology Releases Several New Features Including Candidate Assessments

Hireology, the Chicago-based high-powered HR/recruiting platform, released several new features recently including candidate assessments, customized email templates, non-numeric input for job compensation and an overhauled reference check guide. Whether a sales test, administrative skills test, legal...
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LinkedIn Relaunches CardMunch, the iPhone App That Will End the Use of Business Cards

Although I was excited to get my first batch of Firmology business cards (free from Moo!), I dislike carrying them around and dislike collecting business cards from people I meet. The cards just end up as wasted paper in scattered piles at the office, at home, in my laptop bag or straight in the trash. As...
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How Your Small Business Can Mail and Ship Like a Heavyweight

Editor’s Note: This guest post is by Shayna Burns and the team at Pitneyworks.com, the official site for Pitney Bowes small business postage machines, mailing systems, PC postage and other postal equipment. You may be running your business like a champ, but are you missing out on small wins,...
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37signals Launches LinkedIn Profiles in Highrise

37signals, the Chicago-based small business web application company, has launched LinkedIn profiles in Highrise, its web-based contact manager or customer relationship management (CRM) software. The new feature let’s users see the LinkedIn profile of a contact by adding their LinkedIn profile URL...
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Hireology Releases Two New Features: Interview Editing & Hospitality Job Industry Options

Hireology, the Chicago-based high-powered HR/recruiting platform, released two new features yesterday: interview editing and hospitality job industry options. Hospitality job family, as they officially call it, is a preloaded database of information for the hospitality industry. If your small...
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inDinero Users Can Now Track Their Receipts [BONUS: Win a $300 AmEx Gift Card]

InDinero, the easy-to-use financial dashboard for small businesses, has announced that users can now upload and track their receipts on inDinero. The Silicon Valley-based tech startup is essentially the Mint.com for small business. Small business owners can gain an understanding of the vital signs...
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FeeFighters Launches Samurai, Online Payment Gateway for Credit Card Processing

FeeFighters, the Chicago-based comparison shopping site for credit card processing, recently launched a new payment gateway option for online merchants called Samurai, joining other tech companies like Braintree in cleaning up the notoriously unscrupulous payments industry. FeeFighters has been...
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Hireology Officially Launches New Pricing Plans

Hireology, the high-powered HR/recruiting platform based in Chicago, officially released their new pricing plans on their product blog on Tuesday. We reported last week that Hireology sent a head’s up email to its free beta customer program users that the program was ending on September...
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HR/Recruiting Platform Hireology Ends Beta Customer Program and Unveils Pricing Model

Hireology, the high-powered HR/recruiting platform based in Chicago, announced that it is ending its free beta customer program on September 21st and unveiled its pricing model going forward. In an email today, the service thanked its users for making the beta program a huge success, and after...
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LawPivot is the Q&A Site for Your Small Business Legal Questions

I attended Chicago’s TechWeek conference recently and met the team behind LawPivot, a Silicon Valley based startup founded by Jay Mandal, the former lead mergers and acquisitions lawyer for Apple. LawPivot is essentially the Quora of legal advice or for those not as familiar with the tech scene,...
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Hireology Makes Small Business Hiring Easy with High-Powered HR/Recruiting Platform

Some business owners think they are a good judge of a job candidate’s skill set, work ethic and culture fit. Unfortunately, most of us are horrible at it. While big corporations spend millions of dollars on building out their HR department, recruiting commissions, standardized hiring templates...
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Braintree Simplifies Credit Card Payment Processing for Small Business

One of the most frustrating and confusing steps of launching a business is navigating the treacherous waters of the online payments industry. The industry is notorious for high pressure sales tactics, sky-high merchant fees, confusing terms and ironclad contracts. I experienced this firsthand when...
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inDinero Provides a Simple Way For Small Businesses to Track Their Finances

Ever since Mint.com launched a simple and intuitive site for individuals to track their personal finances, many small business owners have been looking for a similar service or tool to track their finances. While there are plenty of finance tools available on the market, most mom and pop businesses...
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Can’t Afford Traditional PR For Your Small Business? Try a Little Bitesize PR.

What small business owner wouldn’t love to have their business mentioned in a newspaper, magazine or online news article? The problem for most small businesses is that they either can’t afford, or refuse to budget for, a traditional PR firm that will cost them thousands of dollars in monthly...
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