As small business experts, we know how hard it is to find reliable information to help you be successful. We offer this library of articles, tips and techniques to help you grow or streamline your business and cut through the challenges you face as a small business owner.

You are welcome to download or print any of the articles for your personal use, but we ask that you contact us for permission to use them in any way other than for your own education and understanding.

Sales & Marketing

• The Essential Contents of a Marketing Plan
• Public Relations Marketing

Small Business Management

• Strategic Alliances: Becoming Big Business in a Small Business World
  (Published in Sterling Heights Area Chamber of Commerce "Business Matters")

• Improving Small Business One HPI Project at a Time
  (Published in ASTD Links)

Planning

• Do I Need a Business Plan?
• Business Plan Mistakes
• Design Your Plan to Fit Your Business
• Gathering Information For Your Plan
• Business Plan Maintenance

Human Resources and Staffing

• Why Don't My Employees Perform Better?
• Recruting and Hiring Good People
• When is the Right Time to Hire?
• How Do You Train When There Is No Trainer?: A Small Business Training Solution
  (Published in ASTD Links)

Business Calcualtors- Several financial calculators such as cash flow, start-up costs, and website analysis.

Newsletters - Archived issues of Clearly Business, the Lucid Business Strategies newsletter.

FAQs - Common questions about small-business issues.

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