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Business Development...
Planning and startup information to help you establish or expand your Minority Business Enterprise (MBE)...



BEGINNERS ESSENTIALS
Beginners Essentials Access to Capital, Money, Capital...no matter how you name it, Cash can be your business's lifeblood.


PLANNING - PUT IT ON PAPER
Planning - Put It On Paper Got a great idea? How do you really expect to run your business if you haven't taken the time to write your plan and really think about your design?


E-COMMERCE
E-Commerce Are you ready to perform transactions electronically? Do you know what's involved?
Definition:  Electronic Commerce refers to the general exchange of goods and services via the Internet.  


TECHNOLOGY
Technology You'll find information about technical standards and help with your Internet-based business.


RISK MANAGEMENT
Risk Management Here, you'll learn how to reduce risk for your business.
Definition:  Risk Management is the total process to identify, control, and minimize the impact of uncertain events.


STRATEGIC PLANNING
Strategic Planning Learn how to build commitments among key stakeholders.
Definition:  Strategic planning is the process of developing and maintaining a strategic fit between the organization's goals and capabilities and its changing marketing opportunities.  


BUSINESS FORMATION
Business Formation S vs. C Corporations, LLC and more, deal structuring, intellectual property licensing and protection.


EMPLOYEES
Employees Employees add another layer of complexity to your business that requires careful consideration and planning.


MARKETING
Marketing Marketing 101: Learn how to get start marketing your business, ideas and services.
Definition:  The process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of goods, services, and ideas to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organisation objectives.  


E-COMMERCE SYNDICATED NEWS HEADLINES
E-Commerce articles Read articles on E-Commerce business strategies, news headlines, commentary and issues from syndicated sources all around the world. Please note all content is linked offsite and provided as an informational service only within MBDA.gov.

  • All times are GMT (due to global distribution)
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  E-Commerce Times: the E-Business and Technology Super Site
 RSS newsfeed item... Is Comcast Barking Up the Right Tree?
In the age of online entertainment, consumers get virtually unlimited choice of content and unlimited means to entertain themselves. They can stream their favorite episode of "Lost" from ABC.com, watch full-length movies on Hulu or even download episodes of shows like the "The Office" from NBCDirect, and they can do it all for free.
 RSS newsfeed item... Ruminations on CRM Following Gartner's Industry Bash
Gartner's CRM conference is always a big event for the industry. The 2008 gathering, which just wrapped, was no different, with attendees leaving the Gaylord National Resort and Conference Center in Oxon Hill, Md., in a thoughtful mood over the direction CRM is heading. Not surprisingly, there was a lot of buzz around social networking.
 RSS newsfeed item... Virtual Gadgets Selling for Real Money
Social media may be hailed as the savior of sagging sales these days, but few have figured out what social media are, much less how to wield them. Even fewer realize that games are the first, and arguably the most viable and sustainable, social medium in the mix.
 RSS newsfeed item... LinkedIn Promises Privacy Fence With New Targeted Ad Scheme
Players in the fragmented and crowded ad platform space just lost a little more elbow room with the entrance of LinkedIn's Audience Network. Not surprisingly, given its strong reach into business networks in almost every community, LinkedIn is offering up its job-related data to advertisers that seek to place ads targeting categories of professionals.
 RSS newsfeed item... EA, Take-Two Just Call the Whole Thing Off
Takeover talks between Electronic Arts and Take-Two have come to an end, the two video game software companies announced Sunday. The news comes some seven months after EA made its initial unsolicited offer to purchase the "Grand Theft Auto" developer for $26 per share, a deal that would have brought Take-Two's shareholders about $2 billion.

 Courtesy of E-Commerce Times © 2006 -Content links go offsite



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