By Rieva Lesonsky

The life of a business owner is a busy one. If I had my way, days would be 30 hours long—and there’d be, like the Beatles sang: “8 days a week.” But there aren’t. So to help you stay on top of important small business news, information and advice essential to running your business, here’s my weekly Reading List.

If you have articles you’d like to share, get them to me by end of day Wednesday every week.

Best Practices

  • Why customers buy from small businesses
  • How to prevent customers from abandoning their shopping carts

Happy Holidays!

  • How to grab your share of holiday sales
  • What does your small business want for the holidays?

Inspiring!

  • From trailer park to multi-million dollar business

Marketing Smart

  • How to have a great grand opening

Money Matters

  • 6 steps to boost cash flow

Productivity

  • How to be productive during the holidays

Sell More

  • Do online shoppers want free shipping or more discounts?
  • How to boost your retail sales
  • Convert shoppers into buyers

Tech Talk

  • 3 ways cloud computing helps your small business grow

Rieva Lesonsky is CEO of GrowBiz Media, a media and custom content company focusing on small business and entrepreneurship. Email Rieva at rieva@smallbizdaily.com, follow her on Google+   and Twitter.com/Rieva.