As a business owner, your employees are your most important customers. Without engaged, passionate staffers, a business will struggle to succeed. Therefore, it is vitally important to attract only the best when it comes to talent. Any efforts you put in to assemble an effective team will pay off in returning customers later on.

It goes without saying that small business owners are master multitaskers. Often wearing several hats and juggling dozens of day-to-day responsibilities, they can lose sight of their retirement goals. Without the luxury of a company pension plan, small business owners must be proactive in building a stable retirement nest egg.

No matter what type of business you are in, you can rise above the competition by doing one thing: Help customers get smarter. Unfortunately, many businesses are run by people who believe the secret to success is out-smarting customers.

At this point in The Age of the Customer, many people would think that defining a blog is an elementary task. Since a blog for most small businesses is at once a powerful yet under-used customer connection tool, perhaps a little background and illumination would be beneficial.

California Governor Jerry Brown on Saturday signed into law a $687 million drought-relief package to deal with a water shortage he has called the worst in the state's modern history.

It’s not easy keeping your car clean while living in a desert. A lot of you likely opt to wash it in your driveways to save a few dollars. But in times of a drought, experts actually encourage people to visit your local car wash.

It must be an early sign of spring: gasoline prices are rising again. Nationally, the price of regular grade gasoline has climbed 17 cents the past 21 days. With the 5% jump, consumers will pay an average $3.45 a gallon heading into the weekend, vs. $3.28 a month ago.

U.S. auto sales in February finished even with the year-earlier period as hefty incentives to lure customers into dealerships late in the month could not overcome cold and snowy weather.