Carole Matthews


Teaching Kids About Microfinance

By Carole Matthews |  Mar 1, 2008

Having worked on the Best Lemonade Stand in America Contest ...  Read story

A Helping Hand

By Carole Matthews |  Jul 16, 2007

Grace Bova's lemonade stand was inspired by her and her friends' desire to raise money for cancer research. Little did she know her stand would inspire an en...  Read story

Weird Tax Write-Offs

By Carole Matthews |  Mar 7, 2007

Some people try to get away with the most absurd things come tax time. Bankrate.com wrote a classic piece on the nine weirdest Read story

Could You Go Back to Corporate America?

By Carole Matthews |  Jan 8, 2007

Entrepreneurs are -- on some level -- just like any other individual in terms of employment: They need an income, a level of security to ensure they can p...  Read story

What Do Younger Employees Want?

By Carole Matthews |  Dec 18, 2006

They want to socialize -- with the boss. A new Hudson survey suggests Gen Y (born after 1980) ...  Read story

So Much for Cyber Monday

By Carole Matthews |  Nov 27, 2006

Is it the biggest online shopping day of the year? The famed Cyber Monday, the Monday after the long Thanksgiving weekend, it turns out, isn't that hot fo...  Read story

Five Minutes of Fame

By Carole Matthews |  Nov 6, 2006

Who knew a junk-mail shredder could play a supporting role on a sitcom, but according to a story in this weekend's Read story

Lemonade Lessons

By Carole Matthews |  Aug 1, 2006

What can you learn from running a lemonade stand? Quite a lot. At least that's what we've discovered since the launch of our Read story

Need Some Online Marketing Know-How?

By Carole Matthews |  Jul 5, 2006

Marketing Sherpa just posted its list of the best blogs and podcasts of 2006 on its site. Readers submitted ...  Read story

Time Off for Baby

By Carole Matthews |  Jun 26, 2006

In Sunday's Guardian Unlimited and other U.K. papers, the talk was about the ne...  Read story

NASA's Getting Entrepreneurial

By Carole Matthews |  Apr 10, 2006

Forget big government contractors. NASA is setting its sights on "tinkerers and students" to help it innovate. A recent Read story

Home Sweet Home

By Carole Matthews |  Mar 13, 2006

Forget outsourcing call centers to India. "Homesourcing" seems to be the new trend, as more and more businesses find that employing independent contractor...  Read story

Spreadsheets for Everyone

By Carole Matthews |  Feb 27, 2006

Dan Bricklin, the co-creator of VisiCalc , the first business application written for personal computers...  Read story

Need a Little Money?

By Carole Matthews |  Feb 13, 2006

If you need a little cash to get your business off the ground, maybe you should tap Prosper.com . The start-up, "offer...  Read story

Practicing What We Preach

By Carole Matthews |  Feb 13, 2006

Inc . magazine has been writing about open-book management since one of its co...  Read story

Write-Off Cap Increase Possible

By Carole Matthews |  Feb 9, 2006

President Bush's 2007 budget proposal includes some much needed tax relief for small businesses: the opportunity to write off up to $200,000 a year in exp...  Read story

Parking Lot Promotions

By Carole Matthews |  Feb 8, 2006

On AdFreak.com , Tim Nudd draws attention to a new marketing method: advertisements on parking stripes. You know, th...  Read story

Traveling Like Trump

By Carole Matthews |  Feb 6, 2006

If you can't be him, at least you can travel like him. Donald Trump's latest venture, GoTrump.com , promises...  Read story

Hiring Not Easy for Small Businesses

By Carole Matthews |  Feb 2, 2006

Even though hiring by small businesses has been on the rise since 2002, according to an Read story

Simon Cowell -- Serial Entrepreneur

By Carole Matthews |  Jan 31, 2006

Simon Cowell, best known as the slightly insensitive judge on American Idol , is bringing his temperamental judging skills to the world of entrepr...  Read story

Tackling Health Care Together

By Carole Matthews |  Jan 30, 2006

Businesses in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, aren't waiting for federal or state reforms to cut the cost of health care. The "Save on Health Care Business Al...  Read story

Don't Just Compete, Cooperate

By Carole Matthews |  Jan 25, 2006

Don't just focus on your competitors. Starting thinking about your "cooperators," encourages Colin Bates, the co-founder of Read story

Where Have Our Manners Gone?

By Carole Matthews |  Jan 24, 2006

According to the article, " Flying in a Snit ," in today's New York Times ...  Read story

January Tax Obligations for Business Owners

By Carole Matthews |  Jan 23, 2006

January 31 is the deadline for businesses to send out 1099s and W-2s. In a nutshell, W-2s notify employees of how much federal and state tax has been with...  Read story

Taking Due Diligence Online

By Carole Matthews |  Jan 23, 2006

Selling a business can be a long, drawn out process. The due diligence process can last weeks, as prospective buyers lock themselves up in corporate confe...  Read story

Businesses Could Foot the Health Care Bill in Massachusetts

By Carole Matthews |  Jan 20, 2006

In Massachusetts, there's good news and bad news on the health-care front for small businesses. The good news is that the Massachusetts' Senate and House ...  Read story

Careful What You Say

By Carole Matthews |  Jan 17, 2006

Search for "business travel" in your favorite blog search tool and the number of blogs that comes up will be disappointing. Why? According to a recent Read story

Entrepreneurial Revival in China

By Carole Matthews |  Jan 12, 2006

Entrepreneurship is gaining more respect in China. Today, the country has nearly 24 million small independent companies, and small and medium companies ar...  Read story

Great Sales, Poor Service

By Carole Matthews |  Jan 11, 2006

By most accounts online holiday sales were great, but a couple of recent surveys report that customer service online could have been better. A recent Read story

How's Your Nest Egg?

By Carole Matthews |  Jan 10, 2006

According to a poll conducted by the National Association of the Self Employed (NASE), it's not looking so good. Thirty ...  Read story

The Sickly State of Small Business Health Care

By Carole Matthews |  Jan 10, 2006

Conditions just keep getting worse for employer sponsored health care. While many large companies are managing to foot the bill, small businesses are stru...  Read story

Common Sense Ideas from Everyday People

By Carole Matthews |  Jan 9, 2006

Cast your vote for the best public policy idea you believe will strengthen the economy and improve the lives of working people at Read story

Advice from the IRS Will Soon Cost More

By Carole Matthews |  Jan 5, 2006

If you need the IRS's advice on whether your simplified employee pension plan is too complicated or a pre-filing agreement on how much money your multinat...  Read story

Don't Bore Your Audience to Death

By Carole Matthews |  Jan 3, 2006

Guy Kawasaki, a former Inc.com mentor and Read story

Small Not So Big with Computer Makers

By Carole Matthews |  Dec 29, 2005

Do computer manufacturers care more about small business or about Corporate America? That's the topic Wall Street Journal personal tech columnist...  Read story

Microloans Filling a Gap

By Carole Matthews |  Dec 28, 2005

For small businesses looking for quick money, nontraditional sources of financing offer the infusion they often need to start up or stay afloat. A Decembe...  Read story

Secrets to Every Service Business

By Carole Matthews |  Dec 28, 2005

Seth Godin reminds readers of the two most obvious secrets to service businesses in his Dec. 28, 2005, blog: <...  Read story

Leveling the Playing Field

By Carole Matthews |  Dec 19, 2005

Smaller retailers are reaping big rewards--and giving the big guys a run for their money--online. According to Forrester Research, about 45% of the $26 bi...  Read story

Microsoft and Google, Together?

By Carole Matthews |  Dec 16, 2005

Putting aside their differences, Microsoft and Google have forged an unlikely alliance to create a new Internet lab at the University of California, Berkl...  Read story

Happy Travelers

By Carole Matthews |  Dec 15, 2005

A recent survey conducted by the American Small Business Travelers Alliance (ASBTA) revealed that many small business travelers are very satisfied with th...  Read story