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• Do homework before starting home business

  While multilevel marketing companies such as Mary Kay offer legitimate products for sale, pyramid schemes offer nothing but promised pay for recruiting others.

• MyBreakfastInBed works to build better links

  MyBreakfastInBed turns to BizBytes101 for advice on how to build its online presence.

• BOOTSTRAP MARKETING

  Coupons can expand business

  It's hard to believe that coupons are 100 years old. Claude C. Hopkins' innovations gave birth to what we now call direct marketing.

• SMALL BUSINESS

  Miami-Dade student's business idea up for prize

  A graduate of Miami Southridge Senior High is competing with the best student business plans in the nation for a chance to win $10,000.

• WORK/LIFE BALANCING ACT

  Women-owned businesses seek ways to grow

  Sharmila Melwani could whip up a batch of cookies so delicious she decided to make a business out of selling them. Like many moms, she launched her business from her home kitchen, but when things took off about six months later, she moved Cookies By Shar to a commercial kitchen in a Davie warehouse.

• Biz Bytes 101

  Build a social networking site with Ning, SocialGO

  Free online platforms like Ning and SocialGO make it easy to create a social networking site for your business.

• MAKEOVER

  Small business makeover: Manny's Auto Sound

  For the past 25 years Manny Diaz and his wife, Barbara, have run Manny's Auto Sound, but the recent downturn has forced them to find new ways to generate business.

• SMALL BUSINESS

  Friends excel as serial entrepreneurs

  Two college friends who went into business together are churning out -- and selling for a profit -- numerous successful start-ups.

• CONSUMER SPENDING

  Survey: Gay market still strong

  Gay and lesbian consumers are showing more optimism -- and spending more freely -- than heterosexuals in a down economy, according to a national survey.

• PHARMACEUTICALS

  OPKO takes 1st step in worldwide expansion

  OPKO Health, the Miami-based pharmaceutical company, announced it has entered into an agreement to pay $16 million for a Chilean pharmaceutical distribution company -- the first of a series of planned moves to stretch its reach worldwide.

• BALANCING ACT

  Internet extends working moms' days

  Late-night computer stints allow working mothers to polish off to-do lists, but can hinder together time with significant others.

• Tax deadline spurs anxiety at small firms

  The Oct. 15 tax deadline has some small firms struggling to get organized to avoid big penalties.

• BOOTSTRAP MARKETING

  Don't let competition's website outshine you

  What does a local brick-and-mortar business really need to know and do to getgoing online? You probably think, as I did, that the first step is to develop a website.

• MY VIEW

  Miami-Dade's Dine Out set for Sept. 29

  There are numerous effects of a recessed economy that often go unnoticed in the wake of larger,more talked about issues such as rising unemployment, corporate bailouts, bank failings and bankruptcies. These stories get front page press and publicity that lasts an endless number of news cycles, while often muting the plight of the small business owner and their unique circumstances.

• SMALL BUSINESS

  Small firms prep for flu outbreak

  Small-business owners need to be aware of legal issues and prevention measures for swine flu as the flu season draws near.

• MEDICAL DEVICES

  Spinetronics aims to fight back pain from every angle

  A team of enterprising South Florida chiropractors formed Spinetronics to improve decompression machines.

• BIZ BYTES 101

  Countertop manufacturer enters Net

  Countertop manufacturer Karen Azari turns to the Internet to expand the customer base of her brick-and-morter business.

• RESTAURANTS

  Mushy in Miami, The Cereal Bowl now aims overseas

  The Cereal Bowl inks a deal for stores in the Middle East but remains shut in South Florida

• Small-business owners become more optimistic

  The economy is still struggling, but there are some bright spots popping up in business owners' outlooks.

• BOOTSTRAP MARKETING

  It's a perfect time for new ideas

  This economic recession is helping create a new marketing environment. It's happening atsupermarket chains and in our homes with the groceries we buy.

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