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Unlike large companies with many stakeholders, a focused entrepreneur in a niche market has a leg up in building community by virtue of their common bond around a narrow topic.

The founder of BiggerPockets pushed the site to become a top resource with these three lessons.

A successful online community provides excellent content and a user experience that encourages frequent return visits.

Building a long-term partnership with a nonprofit can be great for your business and the community but a lasting, meaningful alliance can't be bought with a large check.

Locally owned businesses give communities a unique character but those businesses need loyal customers to survive.

Important lessons about life and business are there for the learning in the great novels they made you read as a kid.

The Cretor family has been in the snack business well over a hundred years and is reasing a new generation to continue the legacy.

The power shift from business to consumer -- in the works for decades -- is now complete.

Dodd-Frank has weakened community banks, a lifeline for many small businesses.

Cultural adaptation "translates" into bigger sales.

Here are a few tips to help support and strengthen the existing startup space in your community.

The co-founder and former CEO of AOL believes success is found through collaboration.

Your fledging company can compete for the best employees by marketing its newness to its advantage.

The CEO of Recruiter.com shares his ideas, based on his experience curating a LinkedIn Group.

Using profits to improve the community that hosts your company doesn't hurt the bottom line, it helps immeasurably.

The best networking strategy is to think first of what you have to offer.

The problem with many plans is that they depend on your changing your life to match what someone else says will work, rather than your understanding yourself well and deciding to budget your time accordingly.

Contributing to the community can energize employees and build ties in a myriad of directions.

The growing social platform has added action buttons to posts from four partners, including Etsy and Kickstarter.

If you're driven by getting out and meeting new people, these businesses might be for you.

The 'Punky Brewster' actress discusses balancing life as a mother to three young kids and running her online party supplies business, P.S. XO, which just announced its merger with the retail party line Seedling.