Featured Articles in the May 2012 Newsletter Include

• A Look at Pay-Per-Click Tools for Small Businesses
• The SBA Has a Deal for You by MARSHALL ECKBLAD June 21
• Entrepreneurs find cash in trash
• How To Value Your Startup Company When Looking For Investment By Yaro Starak
• Why Budgeting Fails

Featured Articles in the April 2012 Newsletter Include

• How I Overcame My Fear of Public Speaking
• How Three Businesses Scorerd Big by Gamification by Erica Swallow March 6
• How to Make the Move from Big Company Employee to Enthrepreneur
• Why Venture Capital is not the way to Build Your Company
• Tips to Turn Leads into Sales

Featured Articles in the March 2012 Newsletter Include

• Reasons You Need to Meet in Person
• Examining the Pinterest User
• Trends in Email Marketing
• An Entrepreneur's To...adership Challenges
• How Military Veteran...iness BY Gwen Moran

Featured Articles in the January 2012 Newsletter Include

Facebook Letter
Facebook_Best of 2011
4 Tips on Building Realistic Cash Flow Projections
Dallas Small Business Leaders Identify Access to Capital as Top Challenge
Use This Business Plan Method
 

• Wrapping It All Up
• The 3 Types of Procrastination
• Three Questions to Answer before you write a Business Plan
• Five Steps to Create a Marketing Plan
• Five Critical Questions Plan Should Answer

• Get Involved without Being a Micro manager
• Jedi Mind
• Startup Funding Outlook
• How to Avoid Bankruptcy in Year One of Your Business
• Biggest Lies about Social Media

• 8 Ways to Sell Against a Lower Price
• Expert Answers Lavinsky Financing
• Hot Tips for Projecting Success to Investors
• 5 Questions to Ask in a Big Idea Meeting
• How to Join the Influencer Club

• Finance_The Secret Fear Holding Entrepreneurs Back
• Fire Undesirable Customers
• The Price of Trying to Please Everyone
• Everything You Need to Know About Google
• Five Critical Questions Your Business Plan Should Answer

• Ten things top entrepreneurs do differently
• 6 Ways to Kill your business on Twitter
• Ten times bigger
• Tips to Help New Grads Find Their Financial Footing By Jessica Stillman
• Outlook Grows Bleak on Main Street
• Older Facebook Users

• 5 Easy Ways To Liven Up Your Facebook Stream
• Small Business Loan for People with Bad Credit
• Position Yourself as an Expert
• Six Successful Entrepreneurs Share Keys to Success in New
• Businesses on the Map

• Dorm Room Moguls
• How Business Planning Leads to Better Management
• Time
• Choose Fun (link to podcast)
• The Fed Vs The FDIC
• Immediate Copyright protection

• 10 Signs the Economy is Improving
• Choosing Objectives_Rich Schefren
• How to Achieve Small Business Success
• Reasons an MBA Is Bad for Entrepreneurs
• US_SmallBiz_Size_Standards_Table
• Outsourcing with Peggy

• E-books Become Big Business
• 6 Ways to Make Your Small Business Look Bigger
• Never Make A Bad Hire
• A Seasoned Angel Investor Highlights These 4 Factors
• Facebook Vs Google
• Online Business Then and Now_1997_2011

• The 5 Worst Places to Start a Business
• Small Business Survival Index 2010
• 2011 Rural Small Business Outlook
• Trends Startups Need to Know Now
• Small Business Labs on Trends for 2011

• Five Financing Trends for 2011
• A Look at Free Email 
• If Not You
• How to enter the app-development world
• Technology_Headache that makes a difference
   

• Small Banks Say They Cannot Win in Small
• As Small Businesses Get Loans     
• Beginning_with_the_End_In_Mind_Two_Key_Points
• Tax Basics for Startups    
• Small Business Marketing ROI
• The Difference_Marketing & Sales Tactics

• 20 rules of thumb for building a great startup culture
• SBA loans rebond in North Texas
• Why you Need to Build a Startup Family
• Tapping the powers of Persuasion
• Behavioral-Retargeting Your Email Campaign

• Retail Redefined White paper
• Hispanic Business in Fort Worth
• Small Business and The Digital Divide
• Preparing a Winning Loan Package
• Search Marketing as a Core Local Business Strategy

• How to Write a Press Release
• Claim Your Place on the Web with Google Places
• Ways to Satisfy Your Suppressed Desires
• The Future of Startup Funding  
• Present Content in Different Ways

• Advertise to Boomers
• Types of Loans
• Francie Cooper Learning
• Unnovate your Growth
• 2010 Online Marketing Blueprint

• Five Legal Mistakes Made by Startups
• Five Legal Mistakes Made by Startups - MP3 audio file
• Coaching Generation Y to a Happy Future
• Learn to Lean on Your Advisors
• Francie Cooper Generation Y - 18 to 30
• Spa Owner
• Top 10 Clever Google Voice Tricks

• Five Business Fundamentals I learned the Hard Way
• Brainstorming to help Creative Thinking
• Finding Your Space
• New Business Plan by Seth Godin
• Make your Customers your R&D Experts

• Business Family Affairs
• First Let’s Kill the Angels
• Unemployed or Underemployed try this unconventional solution
• The New Business Card Exchange - Linkedin
• Online Video to Market Your Small Business

• Success with the Help of SCORE (This column about Stahl’s success, written by Betty Dillard, was printed in the Fort Worth Business Press on March 8, 2010.  SCORE Fort Worth is grateful to Betty Dillard and the Fort Worth Business Press for allowing the article to be reprinted in part in this edition of the chapter Newsletter.)
• Alert for Small Business
• Life Coaching for Entrepreneurs
• Marketing Plan for Small Business
• Employee vs Independent Contractor

• New Entrepreneur and the Voice of Experience
• Obama on S.B.A. Lending ?
• Food! Glorious (Healthy) Food by Francie Cooper
• Setting a Valuation for Your Company?
• Just the Facts!

• The New Entrepreneur – Experience Counts - This article from Carole Fleck indicates that older Americans are playing a part in today’s recovering economy.
   
• The Frustration Decade - Seth Godin, a business author, gives his point of view on how to handle your business in the coming decade.
   
• Francie Cooper, Life Coach, Contributor - Life Coaching for Entrepreneurs is a more personal way to experience life in business. See what the human side of business is all about.
   
• Today’s Economy and the Small Business Community - Get an interesting update from Steve Bloom, Chapter Chair & Business Mentor of the Atlanta Chapter. Steve states some interesting facts about bank loans and asks, "Why?"
   
• Will you solve a problem, ride a platform, or uncover a market need - Michael Fitzgerald, reports on successful entrepreneurs and the fact that they seem to fall into three categories. Mike serves up some excellent standards to which you can compare your business strategy.

Featured Articles in the May Newsletter Include

• 401(k) Plans in a small business?  See what is offered at ING.
• Should you select a SCORE counselor as your mentor? Get the scoop on mentoring.
• Adopting a Fresh Take on Today’s Recession from HarvardBusiness.org by John Baldoni.

• A Vision of Abundance by Francie Cooper, in Coaching for Entrepreneurs. 

• Audit: Is the small biz stimulus relief months behind schedule?

Featured Articles in the April Issue Include

• Defining Goals for Your Small Business by Terri Lonier, author of small business books
• Create a Market Forecast for Your Marketing Plan by Tim Berry, Founder and President of Palo Alto Software
• What’s Missing from Everyone’s Marketing Plan Drafts? by Peg Corwin, SCORE counselor 
• Pulling Off an Acquisition in Today’s Economy: Risks and Rewards, an article from the Wharton School of Business 
• Featuring a new column, Life Coaching for Entrepreneurs, written by Francie Cooper, Life Coach and SCORE contributor