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Home Business
Home Business magazine covers every facet of the growing, dynamic home-based business market. Its cutting-edge editorial on business operations, sales, home office, franchising, business opportunities, network marketing, mail order, and the Internet helps readers select and manage a home-based business.

Money N Profits
Money 'N Profits Magazine is a dynamic, exciting publication dedicated to how ordinary individuals can succeed in finding financial independence. Money 'N Profits Magazine content includes "how to" articles on achieving financial success, small business start-up tips, powerful interviews with successful entrepreneurs, and the latest ideas on making money from home.
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Opportunity World
Opportunity World is a survival guide for today's entrepreneurs. Published 10 times per year, the magazine interviews successful businesspeople, provides tips for developing and implementing strategies, and maintains a focus on the bottom line.

Success
Published for the innovative entrepreneur since 1891, Success is a valuable resource for relevant insights and inspiration that you won't find anywhere else. Success shows readers how skilled entrepreneurs have seized the opportunities in today's business revolution and inspire them to rise to the challenge of a technology-driven business climate.

Business Week
Business Week, America's leading business news magazine, makes the world of business as interesting as it is important — identifying and analyzing events, trends, and personalities that make a difference. The magazine clarifies complicated issues and communicates a sense of excitement, telling its readers what they need to know, often before they are aware of the need.

Inc.
Inc. magazine, published 18 times a year, provides you with solid, practical management advice for running your small and growing business. It also gives you a sense of community — letting you know that you're not alone in the business challenges that you face. The magazine also shares the solutions that other entrepreneurs have found to those same tough problems.

Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur Magazine is the small business authority. It is written to help entrepreneurs and small-business owners manage and grow their business.

Fast Company
Fast Company — the handbook of the business revolution — is Rolling Stone meets The Harvard Business Review. Each hip, groundbreaking issue covers the latest business news and trends, leading-edge entrepreneurs, and of course, the fastest companies in business today. If you're looking for more than a conservative business magazine, read Fast Company.

Executive Leadership
Executive Leadership is a monthly briefing that shows you how to become a better leader. You'll find out how to take charge in your workplace, enjoy a wider business perspective, lead your organization to more efficiency and greater success, and rise faster in your field.

Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review is the journal of management thought and practice, written by authorities in business and business education. This bimonthly publication offers discussion and debate on agenda-setting issues of both national and international significance while challenging the conventional wisdom of management practice.

Business 2.0
Business 2.0, the magazine of the New Economy, looks at all that's new and noteworthy about the networked economy. Business 2.0 and eCompany Now recently joined forces to bring you in-depth features on global business issues, e-commerce, new business models, and the people and ideas that are changing the way we work. This is not business as usual.

The Wall Street Journal
The Journal is the leading business publication in the country, with the most relevant information available on the business of making a living. It provides valuable information on the latest news and trends in business; on advancing your career and increasing your income; on using new technologies; on managing change and on working smarter and investing more profitably. What this all adds up to is the Journal delivers news you can use.

BarterNews
BarterNews, now in its 20th year, reports on how 400,000 companies barter their products/services through trade exchanges and corporate barter companies. In exchange they receive printing, cruises, and other travel accommodations, as well as advertising and more.

Black Enterprise
Black Enterprise is a monthly business-service publication for African-American professionals, entrepreneurs, and corporate executives. Through its monthly features and departments, the magazine examines critical personal finance, money, and career management issues with a hands-on, how-to style.

Businesses for Sale Magazine
Businesses for Sale lists more than 1,800 firms for sale in California, including mid-sized, high net, niche, able-to-be-relocated, and absentee-run businesses. Each issue is loaded with helpful resources and articles.

Los Angeles Business Journal
Los Angeles Business Journal focuses on financial developments and trends in L.A., proving there's more to business in the City of Angels than the film industry. Written specifically for the business community in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the weekly journal provides coverage of developments in real estate, finance, construction, manufacturing, international trade, and transportation.

New Orleans CityBusiness
Over the past two decades, New Orleans CityBusiness has established itself as New Orleans' business authority. Each issue delivers a dynamic mix of late-breaking news stories, provocative commentary, top lists, and detailed analysis of events vital to the greater New Orleans business community. Its special sections and supplements are considered indispensable to area executives. New Orleans CityBusiness provides readers with the news they need to stay on top of their industries, ahead of their competition, and first in line for new prospects. Plus, get New Orleans CityBusiness' annual "Book of Lists" (a $35.00 value), as a bonus gift with your paid subscription.

Are You Making Any of These 10 Deadly Small Biz Mistakes? Source: Managing a Small Business Dear Business Colleague, These traps/mistakes are common to many entrepreneurs: 1. Getting Wedded To an Idea And Sticking With It Too Long. Don't marry a single idea. Remember, ideas are the currency of entrepreneurs. Play with many ideas and see which ones bring money and success. 2. No Marketing Plan. A marketing plan creates the kind of attention you need to get in front of the right types of people, companies, etc. It is what attracts people to you! There may be as many as 25 ways to market your business at no or low cost. A good marketing plan implemented effectively, efficiently, elegantly and consistently, will eliminate the need for "cold calls!" (See below for how to create a results driven marketing plan). 3. Not Knowing Your Customers. Changes in your customers' preferences and your competitors' products and services can leave you in the dust unless you get to know your customers well, what they want now and will likely want in the future, what their buying patterns are, and how you can be a resource for them even if you don't have the right products or services for them now! (See below for low cost techniques to gather facts about your customers and the people you'd like to have for customers). 4. Ignoring Your Cash Position. The world (aka customers) doesn't respond to even superior products in the timeframe that you think they should. You'll need plenty of cash to sustain yourself in the meantime. (See below for how to forecast your cash needs and protect yourself from cash crisis situations). 5. Ignoring Employees. Motivating, coaching and managing your staff is probably one of your toughest challenges as an entrepreneur/business owner today! Without your patience, persistence and "people skills," your problems can multiply quickly. Morale, productivity AND PROFITS can easily be destroyed! (See below for how to get your employees' full commitment to job performance). 6. Confusing Likelihood With Reality. The successful entrepreneur lives in a world of likelihood but spends money in the world of reality. 7. No Sales Plan. Without a sales plan, there's no serious way to gage the financial growth and progress of your business. You need a realistic map for where the sales will come from, how they'll come and from whom. 8. Being a Lone Ranger. You might be the key to everything BUT you cannot DO everything and grow at the same time. Even modest success can overwhelm you unless you hire the right staff and delegate responsibility. (See below for effective delegation techniques) 9. No Mastermind. Get an advisory board or a mentor! Sounds crazy for a small operation? It's not! The board can be family members that you trust, or friends. Ask them to be your board of directors and review your business plans and results with them. Having someone to bounce ideas off and get an objective opinion is critical. 10. Giving Up. Some of the most successful entrepreneurs failed several times before doing extremely well. So, if you're failing, fail. And fail fast. And learn. And try again, with this new wisdom. Do NOT give up. Yet, do not suffer, either.