Free Resources

Marketing

6 Steps to Planning a Free Startup Event and Making a Splash

It's time to get real: Promote your company offline, using real-life, real-time events.

Growing a Business

4 Ways to Cut Costs Using Technology

Solutions are available free or very expensively for nearly all routine business tasks. Why are you still paying so much?

Marketing

Get Graphic! 8 Affordable Web Tools to Infuse Visuals Into Your Marketing.

Websites need to be engaging visually or risk being ignored but that doesn't require adding a new line item to your budget.

Marketing

Where to Find Free Photos and Never Again Pay for a Website Image

Blogging is not universally lucrative but sprucing up your posts with dazzling images can be done without harm to the bottom line.

Marketing

Projecting a Great Customer Experience a Half Year Ahead

Work backward from months after a product's sale to your first interaction with a prospect to find ways to engage and support the consumer.

Growing a Business

13 Growth Hacks From Some of the World's Most Successful Tech Entrepreneurs

Why reinvent the wheel when you can take what's worked for others and apply those principles directly to your business?

Legal

Tell Us: Is Michigan's 'Free College Tuition' Proposal a Good One?

A new law awaiting action in Michigan aims to realize the far-off dream of free college education, though there's a catch.

Science & Technology

Free Tools for Improving Online Security

From defending your network to protecting your data, free software can provide comprehensive protection for your company's computer systems.

Marketing

Free Market-Research Tools -- A Sampler

Small businesses can tap a variety of free resources for insights about customers, competitors and trends.

Starting a Business

A Complete Resource Guide to Start a Business in 2012

Use this list of free -- or almost free -- tools to turn your business idea into a reality in the new year.