Of course, there are a variety of skills owners need to know in order to make a business work. But after many decades of running my own successful businesses, I have come to the conclusion that these facts are the seven essential concepts needed to create a successful business life.

Like business, everything about Downton Abbey is about change. Changes in society after World War I. Changes in manners and the way people behave. Changes in wealth.

Small business owners have difficulty in picking a way of knowing what to focus on. To shed some light on this topic, I interviewed Scott Belsky, co-founder and CEO of Behance, the leading online platform for creatives to showcase and discover creative work.

Accounting and business advisory professionals say continued uncertainty is their clients' biggest concern when it comes to the so-called fiscal cliff, according to a recent survey by Sageworks Inc., a financial information company.

Telecommuting, traveling, working from the field -- at any given moment you may be heading out, away from your desktop and your files, yet you can't afford the time to actually be away from your work.

If the IRS wants to say the Small Business Health Care Tax Credit is a total fail, it has a funny way of saying it. Last spring, the IRS went on a...

After all these years of human history, how can these two smart men differ so significantly? How can hundreds of respected economists, policy makers and wonks be so far apart on what to do to grow our country's economy?

NEW YORK (AP) — Small businesses created no jobs last month, according to a survey released Thursday by the National Federation of Independent Busin...

With the unemployment rate steady around 8.2 percent, many have been wondering exactly what the culprit of the situation is. But what many fail to recognize is there are plenty of things employers themselves aren't getting right.

When it comes to a startup's success, being able to contribute experience and insight is almost as valuable as a unique idea or substantive funding.

The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has fined the owners of a now-closed bed and breakfast $4,500 for refusing to grant a gay couple a reservat...

Although optimism among small business owners has been in high in recent months, many owners have been making notable sacrifices and changes to stay a...

Unless you are running a politically based operation, you and your digital marketing team would be wise to limit your social media comments to relevant business/industry topics.

Three-quarters of small-business owners suffer from a work-related ailment, mostly stemming from stress, according to a new study from insurer Hiscox ...

You have an idea and you're quite sure it'll be successful. It might revolutionize the way people shop, eat, exercise, sleep, watch tv, you name it. What's next? Before you embark on writing that business plan or applying to business school, take some time to talk. To whom? Everyone.

(Reuters - By Deborah L. Cohen ) - Babson College and the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor recently released the results of a comprehensive 2010 study ...