Oct 9, 2012

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Small businesses hiring and spending less but expecting more
Los Angeles Times
Sales "continue to be an albatross," with more than one in five small business owners blaming weak sales as their top problem. Overall, the biggest obstacle are rising healthcare costs, followed by uncertainty over economic conditions and then energy ...
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Small-Business Butterflies Can Create Wave of Trouble
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Kathleen Madigan. Small things matter. The flapping of a butterfly's wings can trigger a tidal wave halfway around the world. The actions of one small business may have only a local impact. But when the actions are repeated by thousands of firms ...
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Why Small Businesses Won't Stop Underpaying Taxes
Businessweek
Before you ask why I'm discussing such a political nonstarter, know that small business underpayments add up. The IRS estimates (PDF) that $179 billion annually in unpaid federal taxes comes from individuals underreporting business income on their ...
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Small-business owners not yet convinced
Washington Times
With the presidential election less than a month away, small-business owners will be listening for what the two candidates have to say about the next four years. Small-business owners and entrepreneurs are the job-creation engine of America, employing ...
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Banks in Small Business Lending Fund making more loans
Bizjournals.com
Participants increased their small business lending in the quarter that ended June 30 by $6.7 billion over what they had been doing per quarter two years ago, according to the Treasury Department. That compares with a $5.2 billion first-quarter ...
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Small-business program coming to Gadsden State
Anniston Star
Small-business owners like Dev Wakeley, left, and Sandy Knight of Jacksonville's Wake and Bake Pizza and Coffee Company will soon have access to advice on operating their business thanks to Gadsden State's new entrepreneurship program. (Anniston ...
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Microsoft finalizes Windows Server Essentials 2012 small-business server
ZDNet
Windows Server 2012 Essentials is Microsoft's intended replacement for Windows Small Business Server and Windows Home Server (for those SMBs who were using WHS for business purposes). The Essentials product is a hybrid on-premises/cloud server.
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Small business optimism flat in September
The Hill (blog)
The small-business lobby also said that owners were "collectively pessimistic" about business conditions, with the percent of companies planning increased investment in the next three to six months dropping. But the survey also found that the number of ...
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U.S. September Small Business Optimism Index: Summary
Bloomberg
U.S. small business optimism declined in September, according to the National Federation of Independent Business. The organization's monthly small business optimism index fell to 92.8 last month, compared to 92.9 in August. Following is a table ...
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Cruz wins small business association endorsement
Sacramento Bee
DALLAS -- A national small business trade association has endorsed Texas Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz. The tea party favorite and former state solicitor visited a Dallas machine company Tuesday. There, he accepted the nomination of the ...
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Small Business Pessimism Grows In September: NFIB
Huffington Post
A separate survey of small business owners found that 68 percent of the participants expect their companies to do well in the next couple of years. Nearly half said their business is doing well now, and 40 percent said their business is doing "just OK.
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Survey: Small business owners grow more pessimistic as employment and sales ...
Washington Post
NEW YORK — Small business owners are growing more pessimistic. A survey released Tuesday by the National Federation of Independent Business shows that owners became more pessimistic during September as employment and sales remained weak.
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Donald Trump is a Small Business?
Forbes
According to President Obama; Donald Trump is a small business! What is a Small Business? Whose definition do we use? Is the Small Business Administration's definition the right term? Is it a tax filing status? Is it a business that is independently ...
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Confidence Among Small Businesses in U.S. Cooled in September
Bloomberg
Confidence among U.S. small businesses cooled in September as fewer companies said they planned to hire or invest in new equipment, a survey found. The National Federation of Independent Business's optimism index fell to 92.8 from an August reading ...
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Small-Business Lending on the Rise: FICO Report
HispanicBusiness.com
In FICO's quarterly survey of bank risk professionals, bankers expressed optimism that lending for small businesses would accelerate over the next six months. By more than a two-to-one margin, respondents said that both the approval rate for small ...
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Paychex and EMPLOYERS Join to Provide Workers' Compensation Insurance to ...
DailyFinance
For more information, small businesses can call 1-877-266-6850 or visit paychexinsurance.com. About Paychex Paychex, Inc. (NAS: PAYX) is a leading provider of payroll, human resource, and benefits outsourcing solutions for small- to medium-sized ...
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Roanoke small business sponsors local families in need
WSLS
"Windows by Melissa" is a small business only employing about four people. Most of the orders ship across the nation, but the tiny company still finds a way to give back to the Roanoke Valley. She came up with the idea to each month sponsor a local ...
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Small-business finance gets a new look
Upstart (blog)
by Kent Bernhard, Jr , Money & Finance Editor October 9, 2012 | 8:03am EDT. A new breed of entrepreneurs is taking an old model for funding businesses—loaning money and expecting payback from a company's revenue—and giving it a major update.
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The Critical Thresholds of Change for Small Businesses
Forbes
Two critical aspects of fast-growing small businesses are constantly running a kind of tortoise-and-hare race: sales and operations. Many companies become so consumed by sales that they fail to see that if operations fall too far behind, it can lead to ...
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Small Businesses Dreading Health Care Law
Valley News Live
That's if president Obama's health care law lives on. A month from today, we will know who our next president is. With that certainty, comes much uncertainty, especially for small business owners who don't know how current laws will effect them in the ...
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Your Credit Card Might Be Holding Your Small Business Back
Spend Matters
Let's clear something up from the start: If you're a small business owner, it's going to be awfully tough to insulate your personal finances from the fate of your company. You're probably going to use a credit card – 82% of small businesses do, after ...
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Rep. Tom Price to Newsmax: Small-Business Owners Rallied by Election
NewsMax.com
"They know, as we know, that small businesses are the job-creation engine in our economy," Price, chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee, tells Newsmax TV in an exclusive interview. "The vast majority of new jobs and net jobs coming out of a ...
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Officescape's Progressive Office Service Suite Helps Small Businesses Start ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
INDIANAPOLIS — Officescape has just launched its newest service suite, Progressive Office, which matches service offerings with the needs of startups and small businesses at each stage in the growth of their business. Options are available beginning ...
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Small firms expect big business from overseas
The News Journal
Delaware small businesses report they anticipate a collective $3.8 million in new sales by this time next year because of recent trade missions to Brazil and China. Delaware's International Trade and Development Group, an arm of the Secretary of State ...
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Small Business Outlook Remains Pessimistic
National Mortgage Professional Magazine
September was another month of low expectations and pessimism for the small-business community, with the NFIB Small Business Optimism Index losing 0.1 points and falling to 92.8. The recession-level reading was pulled down by a deterioration in labor ...
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Quincy Street CEO named Small Business Person of the Year
Michigan Business Review - MLive.com
Brought to you by. DSCN0349.JPG Douglas Hekman MLive.com. HOLLAND, MI -- Douglas Hekman, CEO of ham products producer Quincy Street Inc., was named Small Business Person of the Year by the Michigan West Coast Chamber of Commerce.
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Michigan Business Review - MLive.com
Survey: Small business owners grow more pessimistic as employment and their ...
Fox News
NEW YORK – Small business owners are growing more pessimistic. A survey taken by the National Federation of Independent Business during September shows that owners became more pessimistic as employment and sales remained weak. The NFIB's ...
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UK Small Businesses Enjoy Less Regulation, Shorter Work Week
Reason
British small business owners work fewer hours than their counterparts in the US, Germany, Spain, France and the Netherlands, researchers have claimed. A survey of 3,000 small companies across the six countries found that British entrepreneurs have the ...
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Small businesses optimistic about future, need more credit
Colorado Springs Business Journal
The survey was conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research for the three nonprofit industry groups: the Association for Enterprise Opportunity, the National Association for the Self-Employed and Small Business Majority. Small businesses also said ...
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Your October Small Business Checklist
Forbes
Aerobics and fitness enthusiast. I'm passionate about my family, small business, and working with entrepreneurs. I'm always up for going out to Starbucks and still believe I made a mistake in not trying out to be a Laker Girl! The author is a Forbes ...
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Blogs14 new results for Small Business
 
Small Businesses. Not Optimistic. - Business Insider
By Joe Weisenthal
Small Businesses. Not Optimistic. Joe Weisenthal | Oct. 9, 2012, 7:38 AM | 634 | 3 ... From the latest NFIB Small Business Optimism index. ... Tags: Small Business | Get Alerts for these topics » ... Join the discussion with Business Insider ...
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Small Business Optimism Falls, Optimism and Employment Sag - 24 ...
By Administrator
The National Federation of Independent Business has released its survey results for the month of September and the month was described as yet another month of low expectations and pessimism for the small-business community. The NFIB ...
24/7 Wall St.
Twitter Tests Survey Feature for Advertisers | Small Business Trends
By Annie Pilon
Ileane Smith Argues That Content Isn't King 30 Susan Payton; Five Simple And Actionable Local SEO Tools 27 Tom Demers; How To Make Your Business Blog Informative 27 Amie Marse; 12 Blogs Every Small Business Should Be Reading ...
Small Business Trends
Calif. govt. killing small businesses | CalWatchDog
By Katy Grimes
Oct. 9, 2012 By Katy Grimes It is no secret that small businesses are losing ground in California. Every neighborhood throughout the state has stores.
CalWatchDog
Uncertainty hurting small businesses and the broader economy ...
By Bill Dawers
TweetThe National Federation of Independent Business press release today paints an ominous picture: Hiring Plans Plunge: Small Business Optimism Drops 0.1, Expectations for the Future Remain Low From the release: September was ...
Peach Pundit
Guest Post: NFIB - Small Businesses Don't Agree With BLS ...
By Tyler Durden
(See Here and Here) However, today's release of the September NFIB Small Business Survey shows the extent to which the current BLS employment calculation method may have detached from reality.From the NFIB report: "September was ...
Baseball, Big Data and Small Business -
By Daniel Antion
Every time I read an article about some company analyzing the scary end of the Twitter fire hose, I am convinced that Big Data is the equivalent of Dark Matter – it's important, but not to me on a daily basis. Working in Information Services for a ...
Expert Blogs
8 Small Business Product Landing Pages Critiqued for Conversion ...
By James Gardner
A very honest critique of 8 landing pages "supposedly" targeted at small business. Apparently some aren't.
Unbounce
10 Ways to Get Your Small Business Ready for the Holidays ...
By Linda Doell
Have you started hiring seasonal help? Are your gift-wrap orders placed? Do you have a holiday promotional strategy in place?
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Small Business Optimism Index edges down | The Business Times
By The Business Times Staff
A monthly index tracking optimism among small business owners has edged down on less upbeat expectations for hiring and capital outlays. The National Federation of Independent Business reported that its Small Business Optimism Index ...
The Business Times
How to Prepare for Small Business Saturday | Small Business Bonfire
By Emily Suess
Emily tells us what we can do to prepare for Small Business Saturday, coming on November 24.
Small Business Bonfire
Small business owners more pessimistic | small, survey, business ...
NEW YORK — Small business owners are growing more pessimistic. A survey released Tuesday by the National Federation of Independent Business shows that owners became more pessimistic during September as employment and sales ...
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Romney's Other 47% - His Small Business Support
Business owners are leaning toward Mitt Romney this presidential election, with 47% supporting him over President Obama, who trails with only 35%.
WIBW - National News - Headlines
SBA Small Business Award Nominations Open for 2013 | Maui Now
By Sonia Isotov
The US Small business Administration has opened the nominations for the annual SBA Small Business Awards for 2013 which will close on November 16, 2013.
Maui Now

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