✳ Speak Up

Want a little publicity? The brilliant Inc. Magazine columnist Meg Hirshberg is looking for entrepreneurs to feature on the following topics: Does entrepreneurship change people? Have these changes affected your primary relationships, with your spouse and/or children? OR: Are there business dashboard indicators (certain strategies, objectives, measures) that would be useful if applied to a marriage, too? You'll have final approval over any quote you submit. Got one? Email Meg a short description of your perspective or experience.

✳ Challenge Yourself

Need money? The Small Business Challenge wants to give deserving small businesses, startups and entrepreneurs the chance to get the funds they need to expand and succeed. They're giving away $50,000 to three small businesses who're doing great work and could use a little push. Register your company or nominate your favorite small biz to win. Deadline is October 31st and entering is free, so watch more about it here and then get to it.

✳ Perk Up

Want to create a rewarding work environment? AnyPerk helps you create one by providing perks to your employees for free. Attract and retain top talent while offering hundreds of employee benefits, deals, and discounts on services and products you already use everyday for everyone in your company. By providing a quality perks program to your employees, you'll increase their engagement and productivity, not to mention retention. Rewarded employees are happy employees.

✳ Rock It

Add this crowdfunding site to your memory bank. Rock The Post is designed to fund small businesses, entrepreneurs, and nonprofits. Ideal for entrepreneurs, you can leverage your current networks, reach out to new contacts, and fill in the missing pieces of your projects. Founder and COO Tanya Prive created the site thinking you just might want an easy way to amass some riches. It's easy: Start a post. Share it with your friends and reach new people. Fund your dream and rock the post.

✳ Take The Leap

Have you seen the big series on small business? Leap Year, a business comedy web series about five co-workers-turned-entrepreneurs who experience the highs and lows of building their own start-up business. But what's more interesting than their 6 million views across platforms? They're pioneering branded entertainment -- you won't see mention of the show's sponsor in any of its episodes. Hiscox places its branding and marketing messages around its content as opposed to within it. Watch it here.