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Agriculture Sector

Small agriculture business sectors include family farms, agritourism, organic foods, local specialty foods, restaurants, and similar craftsman oriented agricultural businesses.

Business Facilities for Small Businesses

Business Facilities for Small Businesses can be as small as a desk or as large as a factory complex, but facilities management for sustainable business includes energy efficiency, water conservation, ergonomic workspaces and compliance with regulations. We bring you information about these issues geared for small businesses.

Commercial Buildings

Commercial building issues for small business include leasing, purchasing, operations, energy efficiency, and workspace productivity. We bring you small business solutions.

Communications

Communication businesses include public relations, media, talent promotion, community organizing and similar community building business models. We help you find strategies and resources to build your small communications business.

Consulting Business

Consulting businesses are often small, home based specialized businesses that work on retainer or by the project. Our Solutions for Small Biz Guides help consultants identify green and sustainability tactics useful for green business clients

Crafts

Self employment as a crafts person lends itself to a small business sector enterprise. Craft products and services are diverse, but depend on worksmanship, quality materials and building relationships with customers for repeat business. Solutions for Small Biz Guides helps craftsmen build a sustainable business scaled for small business success.

Cultural Creatives

Cultural creatives are the communication and storytelling visionaries in society. Solutions for Small Biz Guides helps cultural creatives develop marketing and management to fit a small but global business scale.

Farms and Small Agricultural Businesses

Farms and Small Agricultural Businesses have small business opportunities in organic, agricultural tourism, local business and farm to city marketing. We bring you small business solutions.

Finance

Small business finance is challenging in this economic climate -- but when isn't it! We provide you with financial ideas that fit a small business scale.

Food Service Businesses

Food service businesses are often small, local businesses with a stable customer base. We provide insights into organic, green business and resources to support food service for restaurants, schools, institutions, and delivery services.

Grants & Funding

Small business grants, loans and funding is always a challenge. Solutions for Small Biz Guides brings you information, connections and ideas for stretching your budget

Green Business Strategies

Green business strategies scaled to small business are different than corporate solutions. We focus on small business strategies for sustainable growth and socially responsible management.

Green Tech Solutions

Green tech is a new approach to technology that focuses on environmental improvements - lower emissions, non-toxic, recycling resources, sensors and governors, smart grid, etc. Small green technology businesses are in demand by cities and states, we bring you info about green tech opportunities and green economy connections.

Healthcare Businesses

Healthcare is a personalized service that is well suited to small business models and with today's changes in the healthcare field, experienced healthcare professionals can find ways to develop a small business in green healthcare, therapy, healthcare support services or the innovative field of medical technology. We help you identify resources for a small business in healthcare.

Home Offices for Small Business

Home Offices for Small Business can provide cost effective startup and professional workspace for many small businesses and home office technology makes it cost effective. We bring you options for home office solutions.

Home Office Equipment

Home office equipment can provide productivity and leverage to scale the impact of a small business. Solutions for Small Biz Guides provides info on office equipment scaled for small business productivity.

Housing Businesses

Small businesses provide many goods and services in the housing sector -- from architectural and interior design to plumbing to remodeling and repair to furnishings -- everyone needs a home, and specialists in housing can build a sustainable small business. But economies fluctuate, and we can help you identify resources for success in today's world.

How to Start a Green Business

We provide tips and techniques to help our readers start a green business. We help you understand green careers, green jobs, environmental compliance regulations and the green marketplace.

How to Start a Small Business

Solutions for Small Biz Guides provides tips, techniques and strategies to help you plan and start a small business.

Information Business

Information businesses can provide computer based services or traditional publishing products and services. Information is critical to our society and small businesspeople can build sustainable services based on the talents, knowledge and skills needed to keep pace with regulations, entertainment, technology...or culture.

Live/Work Housing and Workspace

Live/Work Housing and Workspace is cost effective and convenient for small businesses and startup creative, consulting and service businesses. We bring you multipurpose housing and home office solutions to optimize your work at home business operations.

Management for Small Businesses

Management for Small Businesses is challenging with finance, sales, marketing strategy, customer support...and building a brand. Solutions for Small Biz Guides helps you with right sized solutions to help you grow your business.

Manufacturing Businesses

Specialty manufacturing of parts, small items and technical design can be launched as a small business based on an entrepreneur's innovation and craftsmanship. We help you identify green, high performance and sustainable manufacturing practices scaled to the small business.

Marketing

Marketing for small business includes sales, promotion, pricing and distribution. We bring you ideas and resources to market your products and services -- scaled to your small business.

Nonprofit Organizations

Nonprofit businesses are still...businesses. Social entrepreneurship is a new way to cross commercial and charitable functions to build a sustainable community, and a sustainable small business. We help you identify resources for sustainable small nonprofits and social entrepreneurship enterprises.

Production for Small Businesses

Production for small businesses includes product and service design, packaging, distribution metrics, sourcing raw materials and parts, equipment maintenance, and pricing for a profit. We help small businesses make sense of production in the green business marketplace.

Professional Services

The personal services characteristic of professional services lend themselves to small business operations. From lawyer to hair dresser to engineer to writer or artist, professional consulting, coaching, representation and planning, we help you find resources scaled to the thriving small business.

Retail Business

Small businesses in retail provide online, weekend, traveling or on-site merchandising of goods and services. We help retailers find green and sustainable sources and services to build a small scale retail business.

Small Biz Guide E-BOOKS

Small Biz Guide E-BOOKS are coming! We'll bring you practical small business start-up and growth tips and techniques.

Small Biz Tactics

Solutions for Small Biz Guides provides Small Biz Tactics for innovation, marketing, customer services and general management - all scaled for the small business.

Small Business Sectors

Small businesses are found in every sector of business, from nonprofit to family businesses to corporations. Some sectors are more amenable to small business models and we help you connect with resources in your sector.

Social Entrepreneurship

Social entrepreneurship is a hybrid of NGO / nonprofit and commercial enterprise business models that uses social purpose as the mission and private enterprise and the method. Green and sustainable businesses are prone to social entrepreneurship biz models.

Technology

Small businesses depend on technology for productivity and leverage. We help technology businesses and small businesses who use technology find green, sustainable solutions.