What We’ve Been Reading This Week [weekly roundup]

Lifehacker has a list of five personal money management services, including our favorite Mint. Could credit union lending be a solution to the credit crunch? The Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act gives you incentives to hire the currently unemployed. Have you thought about advertising on TV, billboards, radio, or online? Facebook usage is surging outside of the US. Startups count for 20% of gross US job creation. Fred Wilson says you only need 6 slides for your fundraising deck. Can cellphones make great cameras? We learned the better way to negotiate, if we were limited to email and instant messaging. Here’s what we can learn from people younger and more successful than us.

What We’ve Been Reading This Week [weekly roundup]

“Simply put, women-owned small businesses have yet to receive their fair share of federal contracting dollars,” says Sen. Snowe, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. “As the fastest-growing segment of our economy, women-owned small businesses will play a critical role in helping our nation recover from the current recession.” [via SmallBizTrends.com]

Find and create a key marketing story by asking the right questions. {via DuctTapeMarketing]

Do you frequent coffee shops for their wifi? Here’s how to get things done without annoying everyone. [via Lifehacker]

7 Tricks to spot trends before your competitors do. [via ATouchofBusiness]

10 Things customers want from your website [via Entrepreneur]

How a professional mailing list could be good for your business. [via Inc]

Tips from Devo and Mother LA on branding and leveraging the power of the Internet. Here’s a video from SXSW [via ChurchofCustomer]

What We’ve Been Reading This Week [weekly roundup]

Google Voice recently opened to everyone in the US. Lifehacker has a great list of Google Voice tricks that can save you money.

Be careful of how you use social networking to find an employee, it can lead to unintentional discriminatory hiring.

Have you ever thought about doing a company culture audit?

Businessweek is looking for America’s best young entrepreneurs, know anyone?

This is a list of obvious, but fatal mistakes that hold back start-up businesses.

Here’s how you can turn personal posts into good business blogging.

Is your small business exporting? It might be a good time to consider exporting if you aren’t.

What We’ve Been Reading This Week [weekly roundup]

13 small business lessons from Rework, one of the best business reads of the year.

Are you the most innovative person at your company? This is why that’s a problem.

Want to nail a sales call? Here’s 8 steps that can help.

According to a new study, $62 billion is how much net neutrality would cost us.

Here’s 5 ways to get more out of local search.

Are you a workaholic? Quit it.

Give your small business some credibility on the web.

This is how much each of your Facebook Fans are worth.

How do you handle late-paying customers?

What We’ve Been Reading This Week [Weekly Roundup]

We weren’t surprised by the pop star that topped this 100 most creative people in business 2010 list. [via Fast Company]

We learned how to stop oversharing and avoid being a dork on Twitter.

Want to hire an app developer? TheyMakeApps is a great place to start. We found our friends Mindgrub Technologies on there.

We’re geeking out over Google’s upcoming Chrome operating system. It supposedly will offer remote desktop through a web browser, meaning access to heavy duty applications for things like video editing or photoshop work on our home computer through a browser on a lightweight portable netbook.

A lot of headaches with printers will go away if this HP “ePrint” ability to email documents to a printer works.

Could your small business use a makeover? Check out this list of competitions. [via SmallBusinessTrends]

Here’s a great primer on using Google Apps for your business. [via Inc.]

We’ve got some fresh new iPad backgrounds thanks to this collection of 35 high definition iPad Wallpapers. [via DevSnippets]

What We’ve Been Reading This Week [Weekly Roundup]

Sure, here are 10 Things Android Does Better Than iPhone OS, but this only applies until the next iPhone arrives. [via Gizmodo]

Looking for office space? 4 things to consider since real estate is typically the second or third largest fixed expense after payroll [via VentureBeat]

“Don’t get you started on booth babes?” Don’t get us started. How to Boost Traffic at Your Trade Show Booth [via Inc.]

Some proven strategies for multiplying profits [via Entrepreneuer]

Sometimes doing less is doing more. Here are ways to be more effective AND get over your email addiction [via Dumb Little Man]

Here’s a great guide on publishing digital content from Razorfish. [via PSFK]

Ever wanted to build a simple, attractive personal web page that collects all of your online presences? Now you can with Flavors.me [via Mashable]

Small Business News We’ve Been Reading This Week

1. Social media isn’t really free, it takes effort and time. It can work wonders for your small business, don’t believe me? Check out these 5 Surprising Social Media Success Stories [via FastCompany]

2. Have a lot of competitors? A key to success is differentiating yourself from them. Make Your Product Stand Out Without Going Broke [via Entrepreneur]

3. It can’t come soon enough. The iPhone 4 Beta reveals the possibility of tethering (using your iPhone as a wireless modem) [via CNET]

4. Never start off a pitch with “You’re going to love this idea!” Here’s a list of ways to sell ideas [via FastCompany]

5. Are you concerned about your privacy on Facebook? They unleashed a lot of new features that work by sharing your information. Reclaim Privacy an easy way to see what you’re sharing with the world

6. Why Are Women-Owned Firms Smaller Than Men-Owned Ones? [via WSJ]

7. 2/3 of entrepreneurs said that starting their own business was more fuflfilling than they thought it ever would be. Do you think like an entrepreneur? Take this quiz. [via Entrepreneurial Mind]