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2012 SmallBiz Success Awards

18 Hawaii small businesses are finalists for Hawaii Business magazine's SmallBiz Success Awards

Hawaii’s Vertically Integrated Small Businesses

Despite the challenges, some Hawaii companies create their own raw materials, process them in-house and sell the finished products directly to the public.

Finding Your Way into the Food Business

Here are 6 steps to get your family's secret recipe into grocery store shelves.

Ukulele Boom Generates Global Sales for Hawaii Companies

Some local companies turn to Asian manufacturers to meet demand

Understand Your Customers by Using Market Research

What do you really know about your customers?

Moving Your I.T. And Data Into the Cloud

Here's the pros and cons of moving your data to the cloud. And dragons.

Mobile Entrepreneurs Meet Clients at the Coffice

Workers and business owners forgo their office for a place with Wi-Fi and coffee.

Variety of Tenants at Barbers Point

Fun and Games Move In While Barbers Point Waits for Its Future

Brides Love Kauai Weddings

Kauai’s romance industry loves the money wedding couples and their families spend on the Garden Island

The Hawaii Market For Buying And Selling Small Businesses Is Back

Now might be a good time to buy or sell a business. Here are some tips.

Blending Old and New Marketing

Hawaii small companies focused on tourism use innovative and tried-and-true tactics to bring in visitors

2011 SBA Hawaii Award Winners

10 companies and individuals are honored as small-business leaders in Hawaii by U.S. Small Business Administration

Owned and Operated by Our Employees

There are multiple costs to employee ownership, but benefits include lower taxes and motivated workers

Business Experts Offer Good Advice to Wine the Experience

The owners of Wine, The Experience receive valuable advice about how to take their business to the next level.

Operating a Lunch Wagon in Honolulu Not As Easy As It Looks

Inside the business of lunchwagons

How to Reduce Risks & Lower Costs

Insurance experts offer their advice for your small business

More Than Just Farming

MA`O Organic Farms combines agriculture with Hawaiian culture and education

SmallBiz Energy Makeover

Retrofitting your office with energy-saving equipment could result in major cost savings.

SmallBiz Guide to Power

Trade associations can give you the lobbying power your small business needs.

Growing by Going Global

Xterra, French Gourmet, PRTech LLC, L&L and WATG prove that small, local companies can flourish nationally and internationally

Internships are Win-win

The advantages of internships are becoming increasingly obvious to businesses and to college students.

Your Business Grows Here

At farmers markets, businesses can launch new items or increase sales

This is a Tourist Spot?!

Businesses welcome visitors, but residents don’t always like to share their favorite haunts

Loving Liliha

There's new life in Liliha. Here's 8 steps to revitalize your neighborhood

Everyone Acts Small in Local Banking

Unlike the Mainland, even the big banks want to be "community banks" here

2010 Smallbiz Success Awards

We profile our six 2010 winners of the Hawaii Business SmallBiz Success Awards

Yogurt Wars

Hawaii's Yogurt Wars: What will it take to survive?

Permit Purgatory

We can't offer paradise, but here are ways to cut red tape and avoid permit hell.

Go Paperless

Hawaii companies – law firms, medical offices, accountants, architects – are systematically converting from paper files to electronic files. Here's how.

Franchising Can Win in a Downturn

L&L successfully franchises out in a down economy, and Blazin' Steaks begins the same.

Hidden Gems to Help You

Here are five programs that could help jump-start, grow and improve your small business.

Social Networks: You Snooze, You Lose

Learn these new tools and make them work for you.

Native Hawaiian Businesses

Hui Ku Maoli Ola's goal is to preserve, promote and explain Hawaiian culture.

Internet Transforms Home Sales, but Realtors Survive

The Internet is changing the real estate game. Here is what realtors need to do to compete.

MIlitary Contracts: Steady Revenue in Tough Times

Hawaii small businesses get big share of the billions in military spending here each year

Still Standing

Norm Winter speaks about Jelly's business survival - mixing old and new music, books and more.

A New Cash Crop

Some Hawaii farmers hope 'agtourism' will be their key to survival

2009 Smallbiz Success Awards

We profile our ten 2009 winners of the Hawaii Business SmallBiz Success Awards

Ergobaby Going Global

ERGObaby Carrier Inc., a Maui-based, family-run company that sells more than 100,000 ERGObaby carriers a year worldwide, began with just a simpe homemade baby carrier.

Striving in a Tough Economy

Indigé Design brings to Honolulu contemporary, Asian-inspired clothing and interior furnishings designed for Hawaii’s climate and lifestyle.

Brotherly Biz

Two brothers’ love of bowling and cooking feeds Aiea Bowl’s success.

Mochi Madness

How Keith Robbins' passion - and personality - turned mochi ice cream into a hot commodity

It's Good To Be A Geek

James Kerr became the original SuperGeek when he started a computer repair company from his modest two-bedroom home in Nuuanu.

2008 SmallBiz Success Awards

What do a 50-year-old sausage manufacturer in Kapolei, a guitar retailer in Honolulu and a diving specialist in Kona have in common? All are recipients of the 2008 SB Success Awards!

2007 SmallBiz Success Awards

We profile many high-achieving local small businesses, including Assaggio's and Kamaka Hawaii Ukuleles and more.

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