One parent told the owner of Thinking Caps, a tutoring company, that she would not be taken seriously until she raised her prices.

The social media lessons from the latest Gordon Ramsay' nightmare. Small-business confidence ticks up. The deficit problem is solved (for now). How to use a six-second video. Would you buy a point-of-sale system from Groupon?

What's the best way to market an app?

Which of the new online recruiting tools have you found most helpful?

Inside a management training class at H.Bloom.

One reason some big Internet retailers charge less is because they are not trying to make a profit — at least not yet.

Why small business are wasting money on "big" data. How to procrastinate like a boss. The African-American start-up gap. And do you swear at the office?

In the end, it all comes down to your Web site. Here are some tips on how to hire a developer.

The Obama administration has tried to reduce appropriations for Score and the small-business development centers for several years, but Congress has blocked those efforts.

Once a year, someone would say, “Maybe we should do some training.”

I didn't want to go into debt learning business principles so that I could one day hope to build Fashioning Change; I wanted to build Fashioning Change.

It's important to understand the difference between Human Resources Happy and High Performance Happy.

In a post for our colleagues at Economix on the divide between small and big — and local and global — businesses, Nancy Folbre, an economics professor, raises a number of issues important to You’re The Boss readers.

The myth of a technology-talent shortage. Treasury pays down debt. Why you should blog about your business. And will you be able to live without Google Glass?

Is it possible to "shame" people who research products with local retailers and then buy online?

If you have determined that none of your retailers are interested in a business, don't you have every right to do it yourself?

Are there tools that have been invaluable to your business? Please share.

Whether an owner supports the law is not necessarily determined by how onerous it will be. "We don't have to be told to do it," said one owner.