Groupon, a popular daily deals website that consumers use to find significant discounts, calls the city of Chicago, Illinois home. While local Chicago residents can use Groupon to find deals on all sorts of products and services, Groupon’s impact on Chicago extends far beyond a little bargain hunting. Chicago is the third-largest city in the [...]

Do you want to start a small business this year? If you said yes, you’re not alone. With the economy and job market the way they are, lots of people are turning to self-employment. Small businesses are viable ways to make money. But even so, thousands of them fail every year. Why do they fail? [...]

During the last few years eBay has become increasingly popular, for many people it is the first place that they look when they are trying to find a specific item. Regular users of the site have found that it is a great portal for starting and running a successful eBay business. eBay is a good [...]

Drop shipping is a system of retailing in which the retailer does not actually stock up his product range in an inventory, but accepts orders and uses wholesalers of the product to ship the order to the customer directly. Drop shipping has become a lucrative business model for thousands of online merchants, since all that [...]

In the face of today’s unstable employment structure, tens of thousands of Americans are opting to search for their own job security by investing in a business of their own. Becoming self-employed has its own pros and cons. On the positive side, you get to run your own business through your own perseverance, hard work [...]

Yeah, it’s the American dream, but starting some businesses can be harder than you ever imagined. When you’re daydreaming about that perfect future, it’s easy to overlook overhead costs, insurance, tax policy and the long nights you’ll spend working on that online business associate degree. Although any business start-up is going to have its challenges, [...]