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

  • Enter the “Start Small, Win Big” challenge & win. Plus, lots of small business tips
  • SWWB Week 1 action plan: Be prepared
  • Measuring the customer experience
  • Best books for small business owners this week: Learn to transform your limitations, unleash your creativity (& get discovered)  & fire up your employees
  • How to manage change in your small business

Inspiring!

  • Fighting her fears helped propel this entrepreneur to success

Marketing Smart

  • SEO best practices
  • 5 things successful inbound marketing programs do
  • Using the phone to market your business—still!

Money Matters

  • Are you investing in your small business?
  • Alternative financing for small businesses
  • Before you apply for a short-term loan, read this first
  • How to file annual reports

People Power

  • Creating employee agreements

Sell More

  • 4 ways to prevent shoplifting in your store
  • 6 ways to speed up customer service

Trending

  • 5 top ethnic food trends

Women Entrepreneurs

  • 4 not-to-miss women’s conferences to attend this spring

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.