Managing a Business

Strong management skills are built over time through continued education and experience. To help you understand the basics about managing a business, SBA offers several free online courses. This self paced instruction includes many entrepreneurial topics, including taking your business global, using technology, preparing a business plan, entering into a franchise, planning for disasters, and preventing crime.

Podcasts
SBA podcasts offer expert insight and guidance about running your business. Managing a Business podcasts offer advice on topics ranging from marketing to sales, human resources, and the technology that you employ to keep your business functioning ...

Make My Cake: Display Imagery on your Website

Make My Cake is family owned and operated. It provides Harlem, NY, with great tasting baked goods in an intimate neighborhood setting. Its recent website redesign allows Make My Cake to display vivid imagery of its offerings and to ...
Lumus Construction: Engage Customers with a Website

Lumus Construction designs, constructs, and renovates public facilities, and specializes in renewable energy and fire mist prevention. It uses its website and online maps to both research projects all over the United States and ...
Fuego Mundo: Interact with your Community using Free Marketing

Fuego Mundo creates a unique dining experience by bringing the flavors, spices, and culture of South America to Sandy Springs, GA. The restaurant uses social media to request feedback from its customers for improvement. Even its ...
Humphry Slocombe: Promote using Free Online Marketing

Humphry Slocombe makes premium ice cream in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. With flavors such as Secret Breakfast and Pistachio-Bacon, it creates a vibrant social media following around the world. It uses social media to ...
Skaters Landing: Educate your Customers using Free Marketing

Skaters Landing is a national retailer and e-tailer of products and accessories for the skating industry. Although located in CT and MA, it uses free marketing online to teach customers from all over the world about its industry. ...
Mandy Scott Flowers: Grow with Paid Online Advertising

Mandy Scott Flowers creates beautiful floral arrangements in its San Francisco, CA, location. As a premium boutique flower shop, she competes with national brands using paid online advertising. By only showing ads to a very ...
TCHO: Measure Results with Web Analytics

TCHO's start-up mentality, combined with its unique location on Pier 17 in San Francisco, CA, merges technology with chocolate production. It uses web analytics to constantly improve its website's layout, ensuring consumers ...
Where Will Your Next Customer Come From?

Small businesses looking to grow should look beyond the U.S. borders to find new customers. Learn about government resources to help you begin or expand exporting.