Tim Knox is a self-made entrepreneur who is well qualified to write a book like Small Business Success Secrets. Tim literally started with nothing and built a small business empire that grossed almost one million dollars in less than five years.

Tim is the founder, president and CEO of two successful technology companies: Digital Graphiti Inc., a software development company whose client list includes Time Warner, Mercedes Benz, BooksAMillion, NASA, and over one hundred others. B2Secure Inc., a Web-based hiring management software company with numerous clients in the high tech and healthcare industries.

Tim is an accomplished business writer and author. He writes the monthly "Inspirations & Ideas" and "Ebusiness Startup Expert" columns for https://www.tradebit.com, the website of the national publication Entrepreneur Magazine. Tim also writes the weekly newspaper column "Small Business Q&A with Tim Knox" which focuses on small business startup and success.

This book is a compilation of Tim's top advice columns for 2003. Tim is also the founder of https://www.tradebit.com and https://www.tradebit.com, an online organization dedicated to helping entrepreneurs start and prosper from online businesses.

As a private business consultant, he has led the e-business initiatives for companies like Advance Internet, Mercedes-Benz, Time Warner and a number of city, county and state government agencies. Tim is an accomplished instructor and writer, having written numerous articles for online and print publications, and is co-author of the book Web Programming in IE 5.0 .

He has also worked with many e-business, technology and Internet start-up companies as investor and advisor. Tim has led numerous seminars and has lectured extensively on the subject of small business, technology and e-business for commercial and educational clients.

In previous lives Tim worked as a janitor, a factory worker, a bug man, a standup comedian, a radio morning show host, an underground newspaper publisher, an award-winning humor columnist, and an almost-syndicated cartoonist. That series of misadventures is chronicled online at https://www.tradebit.com. Tim lives in Huntsville, Alabama, and is married with two daughters.