New York Times - Small Business

Should the Wedgwood Manor country inn include people in its promotional photographs or not?    

A summer camp offers “warmth, love, acceptance and companionship” to young people.    

Our account executives are really good at closing deals when they have the opportunity to meet with a company in person. How do we increase the number of in-person meetings?

Owners of small and midsize businesses talk about customer-relationship management software that has worked for them.

Recent graduates do not question or doubt a job that has a tough mission. They know how to survive, will follow a vision and want to make a difference.

The Affordable Care Act may benefit medium-size companies by making it costly for their smaller competitors to expand.

For YogaFit, the next step is search engine optimization. “It’s not a guaranteed science,” the owner acknowledged.

How was I going to find the right people with the right skills to build the lines of code I needed if I didn’t understand what I was looking for?

Students who get financing are not required to leave school.

For the owner of Prepster Pineapple, a line of clothing for teenagers, the soul of the business is her teenage daughter.

After months of research into how credit card transactions are processed, I make a decision. Part 4 of a series.

The stock market closes at a record high. Daily deals are no longer driving restaurant traffic. You may now power up your electronic devices. But are your ducks in a row?

When I reviewed the WordPay agreement, I was most interested in seeing what it said about reserve accounts, and I found the relevant language easily. It was quite unsettling. WorldPay could take money straight out of my bank accounts any time it wanted without notice.

Can the Wedgwood Inn attract more visitors to a Web site and, ultimately, to a very remote part of Canada where the nearest traffic light is an hour away?

A new legislative proposal seeks to streamline tax rules for flow-through entities, including S corporations, but it is unclear how much most small businesses will benefit from the changes.

National Processing was willing to go forward on one condition — it wanted to establish a reserve account to guarantee that it wouldn’t be left holding the bag in case of an unresolved chargeback. I had never heard of this before, and frankly, I was a little insulted.

A year from now, Jayla Siciliano hopes Bon Affair’s bottles will be lining the shelves of all the Whole Foods stores in California and offered on Virgin America flights.

Rachel Shein, owner of Baked in the Sun, responds to reader comments from last week’s case study.

It would take eight months and many hours of meetings and research for me to figure out how I was being charged and what I could do about it.

Responding to a reader’s question: Are there things everyday businesses like contractors and plumbers should be doing with social media?