Small Business Article Roundup for Week Ending November 26, 2010

To all my fellow Americans, I hope you had a great Thanksgiving holiday. Hope everyone, non-Americans included, had a great weekend and is fully energized for the week ahead.

There are tons of small business blogs and news sites out there, but you don’t have tons of free time. Here are some of my favorite small business articles from the past week.

Pamela Slim wrote a great article last week about growing your small business. I especially liked Pamela’s “Disney Princess Syndrome” analogy.

In this small business article, Pamela suggests what you should be doing to build your small business. While there are ways to speed up the process, you always have to lay the foundation for your business. When building a business you don’t start at the top, you have to build from the ground up.

If you are running an online business, you already know the importance of email marketing. However, as can be seen by the amount of emails stores like Bloomingdale’s, Target, Best Buy, Staples, etc., send out to let people know about in-store specials, it is clear that email marketing is also important for traditional brick and mortar stores.

This business article from copyblogger gives useful tips on what you can do to grow your email list.

There is much speculation about how much the end of tax breaks for the wealthy will affect business, especially small business. This LA Times small business article does a good job of presenting both sides of the argument.

I actually heard about this lawsuit from a friend as we were conversing prior to Thanksgiving dinner.

Talk to anyone who sees me on a regular basis and they will tell you that I had been complaining about the iPhone 3G’s performance ever since the 4.0 upgrade. I am glad to see that someone is suing Apple for this and I hope the courts send a message to Apple and other developers by awarding millions in punitive damages.

I include this article in the small business article roundup because I often sing Apple’s praises and use them as a model company for small business owners to emulate. Here is something you should not emulate. Apple clearly knew, or at least should have known, that the iOS 4.0 upgrade was not suitable for the iPhone 3G. Apple should not have allowed people with the iPhone 3G to upgrade to the new OS.

To quote Bianca Wofford’s complaint, “Apple has falsely, intentionally and repeatedly represented to owners and consumers of the iPhone 3G that its new operating system for the device, iOS4, was of a nature, quality, and a significant upgrade for the functionality of all iPhone devices, when in fact, the installation and use of the iOS4 on iPhone 3G resulted in the opposite — a device with little more use than that of a paperweight.”

Be sure to check back next Monday for a new Small Business Article Roundup.

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