Laura Tiffany

This guide provides all the information you need to open and operate a successful restaurant.

Not sure how to become an event planner? Use this step-by-step guide to launch your event planning business from scratch.

Be the toast of the town, the life of the party--and a successful entrepreneur? Yep. You can have it all when you open a bar.

With this basic guide, you'll be able to select the structure that suits your business best.

You can learn now from what these entrepreneurs wish they'd known then.

Looking for an outlet for your creativity? Crafting is bucking the economic meltdown. Here are the latest crafting trends you should know about.

Sometimes buzz happens. Most times, however, you need to create it.

You like marketing; he likes accounting. You enjoy designing new products; she's a sales guru. Finding a business partner with complementary skills can be the best thing you do for your business--and yourself.

You can still find a place in the auto industry--you just have to know where to look.

Socially responsible young entrepreneurs are creating for-profit businesses to enact social change.

Once you've learned the ropes of selling on Ebay, it may be time to open an Ebay Store or your very own ProStores site.

The domain name market is a hot investment opportunity for entrepreneurs.

Teens bypass after-school jobs for virtual world businesses where the money earned and the skills learned are real.

Help educate the wee ones--and some older kids, too--by opening a children's franchise.

Whether you want to put your DIY skills to work or don a suit and sell your wares in a showroom, there's a home improvement franchise that'll fit your style.

Artists looking to make a name for themselves are forgoing the gallery/museum route and selling their own products.

Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Orkut, Xing--the glut of social networking sites can make it impossible to decide where to spend your time and energy. Here are a few new networks to consider.

If it's big in Japan, it could also hit big in the United States--and these entrepreneurs are betting on it.

If the experts agree that we're in a recession, these tips will have you so far ahead of the game, the news will barely register.

When it comes to getting help, business owners are finding it pays to go virtual.

The $2.25 billion casual gaming industry is on the brink of explosive success. How can you join the game?

Almost 5 years after the Do Not Call Registry began, marketers have gotten creative.

Find out how creative entrepreneurs turned unusual spaces into the perfect location for their business.

Perez Hilton's life is a Cinderella story for the blogging age. In just three short years, the popularity of PerezHilton.com has skyrocketed.

Outsourcing is reaching new levels of creativity as entrepreneurs figure out more tasks that can be sourced elsewhere.

You can go back home again. Many businesses are finding that homeshoring is a viable alternative to offshoring.

For these entrepreneurs, every day is like Halloween. Ghosts, spirits and other things that go bump in the night help bring in the chills and the business.

Family-friendly ag-tourism attractions like corn mazes are helping keep small farms alive.

Think the biggest video game launch in history doesn't apply to you? Here's why you're wrong.

Etsy.com founder Rob Kalin hasn't just created an online marketplace for crafts; he's built a site that creates entrepreneurs and strives for a sustainable future.