Are You a Marketing Weasel? Am I? — Tim Berry ponders how consumers aren’t always logical, but marketing with this in mind can appear ‘weasel-ish’.

Playing the Numbers — Sometimes it’s helpful to create different scenarios for your business plan, and see how they impact your financials.

3,2,1 Contact… How Do You Keep Track? — Tracking all your customer communication in one accessible archive can be incredibly useful.

Start-Ups and Health Care Debates — What does the current health care debate mean for small business?

Business Focus vs. Peripheral Vision vs. Growth — Tim Berry talks about what happens when businesses branch out beyond their focus and the importance of knowing who isn’t your customer

10 Ways to Market When Cash is Tight — Duct Tape Marketing Coaches Ken Burgin and Elizabeth Walker provide their top tips for low-cost marketing.

Business Plans Are Not Just for Startups — The Up and Running blog quotes author Ramon Ray on the forgotten audience for business plans.

It’s Not Just What You Say, It’s How You Say It — When a New Zealand woman was fired for her email stylings, it brought up a good point about polite electronic communication.

Are You a Good Manager? How Can You Tell? — Tim Berry poses some questions to think about in trying to determine what makes a good leader.

Tell the World How Fast You Respond to Email — When you handle email efficiently, you’ll be proud to display a Response Time Badge on your website.

How to Write With A Knife — The Copyblogger’s excellent post on effective editing.

7 Reasons Why Your Marketing Plan Doesn’t Work — Marketing guru John Jantsch looks at the most common mistakes people make with their marketing plans.

Why Cash Flow is Like a River — Tim Berry uses a river analogy, and video to go with it, to explain cash flow.

Behind the Scenes, a Lot of Activity — Email Center Pro developers have made some improvements which speed up the service and allow them to sleep through the night.

Troubadour takes bad customer service to task. Song #2. — United Airlines broke the wrong guy’s guitar, and the customer service lesson they’re learning is one we should all take heed of.

3 MBA Tricks to Shorten Boring Meetings — Tim Berry shares some secrets he learned in business school to help you deal with long meetings.

Maker or Manager: Do You Hate Meetings? — Tim Berry on why frequent office meetings work for some types of workers  and not for others.

What’s Your Free Soup To Go Strategy? — Exceeding expectations is a powerful way to create repeat customers, say Duct Tape Marketing Guru John Jantsch

Why are women becoming a rising force in American entrepreneurship? — Sabrina Parsons weighs in on some of the reasons women are ideally suited to run businesses.

The Single Most Important Thing Your Headline Must Do — An interesting Copyblogger post on how to drive more readers to your blog.

Shark Tank – Perfect your pitch — A new television show illustrates the power of presenting a good pitch to potential investors.

Critics that matter — Seth Godin’s excellent post on paying attention to the right critics and ignoring the ones who don’t really matter.

About Entrepreneurs Who Say They Don’t Plan – Tim Berry takes on a blogger who says writing a business plan is dumb.

The 3/50 Project to save local businesses — Palo Alto Software gets behind a nationwide movement to encourage consumers to ‘buy local.’

Here’s a round-up of blog posts from the past week that you may have missed.

May I Start Using Email Center Pro? You Have Permission –New feature of Email Center Pro lets administrators decide who can see what.

Business Card or Marketing Tool? — How to turn your business card into a marketing machine.

An easy way to increase your website sales — Security ‘trustmark’ tells your customers that you’re safe.

Top 10 Software Publishing Trends for 2009 — Tim Berry predicts new directions for software in the coming year