Feb 24, 2013

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News37 new results for Small Business
 
Don't Miss These Favorite Small Business Books From 2012
Small Business Trends
With the 2013 Small Business Book Awards underway, I could not help but reminisce about my favorite small business books. I thought about the ones that made an impact on my way of thinking moving forward. I felt these books also impacted how small ...
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Small Business Trends
MRDC to host small business lending workshop
The Rolla Daily News
The workshop will feature a list of knowledgeable presenters from the Small Business Administration (SBA), Missouri University of Science and Technology Small Business and Technology Development Center and MRPC's business loan department.
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Small businesses worry about paying for insurance coverage mandate
Helena Independent Record
MISSOULA — Like many young workers nationwide scrambling to find work that includes affordable insurance, Ashley Saxbury left one job recently for another that offered comprehensive health care benefits. Saxbury has been a certified nursing assistant ...
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Small businesses about to take a HIT; Congress must step up
Charlotte Observer
Beginning in 2014, millions of small businesses are set to take yet another hit from the billions in new health insurance taxes included in the health care law. The law calls this a "health insurance fee," but let's call a spade a spade: the estimated ...
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Small businesses see potential positives and perils from crowd-funding
CPA Practice Advisor
Becky Yerak, Chicago Tribune Created: February 24, 2013. A 2012 federal law known as the JOBS Act opens the door to allowing small, privately owned businesses to market ownership stakes in their ventures to people over the Internet. Related Content ...
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Rhonda Abrams column: Child care is a small-business issue
The Sheboygan Press
Women with pre-school age children work for small businesses. About half of all private business employees work for small companies, according to the Small Business Administration. So it's a reasonable assumption that about half of all working women ...
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Chico consultant helps small businesses survive social media jungle
Enterprise-Record
Through www.socialhighrise. com, small businesses can choose different levels of social media services, ranging from $250 to $400 a month. There's no long-term contract. Earlier this month, the business established an office in downtown Chico, at 242 ...
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Small businesses hoping for growth
Stockton Record
"In a general sense I would say, at least, we are starting to have a few clients talking about some growth opportunities instead of just talking about survival issues," said Nate McBride, director of the San Joaquin Delta College Small Business ...
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Small Business Administration Head: Agency Will Avoid Major Blow From Cuts
Memphis Daily News
NEW YORK (AP) – The head of the U.S. Small Business Administration says she doesn't expect operations at the agency to be dramatically affected by automatic federal budget cuts scheduled to begin March 1. Administrator Karen Mills said that the SBA ...
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Small businesses rue payroll tax overhaul
Financial Times
The Federation of Small Businesses is making a last-minute plea to soften the overhaul of payroll taxes due in April. The introduction of Real Time Information means employers will have to send HM Revenue & Customs details of how much each employee ...
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business seeks 'fair go' on payroll tax
Perth Now
Leaders from WA's business sector came together to demand a better deal for the 70,000 small businesses. WA's two major political parties have all but ignored the campaign by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA to lift the payroll tax threshold ...
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Small business: Tips for choosing an accountant
New Zealand Herald
A good accountant will help your business grow by bringing a wider commercial perspective to the partnership. For small businesses, your accountant should be a trusted business adviser and provide credible, strategic advice. They should be able to ...
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New Zealand Herald
Noranda jump-starts small business
Jamaica Observer
BOLSTERED by the success of Phase One of its micro-enterprise business enhancement programme, GetStart, Noranda Jamaica Bauxite Partners and the Noranda Community Council are preparing to launch Phase Two this week. The programme, intended ...
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Taking your small business social
Bizcommunity.com
Social media has provided small businesses with the opportunity to market their brands on a big scale at a fraction of the cost. This said, in order for social media to work to your advantage, you need to understand the various platforms and know how ...
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Small business: The sweet taste of a redundancy
New Zealand Herald
A significant life change such as redundancy can give you the impetus to finally set up the business of your dreams. Playing poker one evening with friends, Stu Jordan, who had been laid off from his job as national sales manager at a technology ...
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New Zealand Herald
Banks loosen the lending tap
Dun & Bradstreet Small Business
Businesses are facing a loosening of credit standards, with senior bankers indicating that business lending has become easier for applicants as banks are pressured to increase market share in a stagnant economy. In particular, covenants and terms in ...
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Small business more upbeat
CITY A.M.
Small and medium-sized firms' confidence in their own prospects climbed from 60.6 last quarter to 64.0 in the first three months of 2013, even further above the 50 level that indicates neutral feeling, BDO said. But firms were still gloomy on the ...
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A Peru Company, Danper, That Partnered With USU Students To Offer Small ...
Daily Markets (press release)
For five years Utah State University students have been teaming up with an agricultural company in Peru, Danper, to help struggling entrepreneurs there launch new business ventures. That company has just won first place for sustainable development from ...
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Buy local, dine local at WVU Small Farm Conference
State Journal
Hosted annually in Fairmont by the I-79 Development Council, Dynamic Networking for Small Business last year attracted participants from eight states, 16 government agencies and 87 businesses. Hosted annually in Fairmont by the I-79 Development ...
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State of the Nation Report 14: Spotlight on Small Business
NewsMaker (press release)
Businesses with fewer than 20 employees constitute 95.6% of Australian businesses and employ 47% of the workforce. As the backbone the economy, the attitudes and behaviours of small business owners and operators are of integral importance to ...
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ICCI to provide interest-free loans to small businesses
The Nation
ISLAMABAD - ICCI has initiated an interest-free loan scheme for the welfare of poor and needy people by allocating amount of Rs 50,00,000 so that ailing segment of society could setup their small businesses. Zafar Bakhtawari, President ICCI made these ...
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The Nation
How to invigorate relationships in 2013
Dynamic Business
Successful business relationships and personal relationships require a lot of the same skills. Taking an interest in the other person, being honest and sharing your values are all important to successful relationships. But how can you ensure your ...
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Banks told to stop taking payments from small businesses for interest rate ...
This is Money
The Federation of Small Businesses has written to the four big high street banks demanding suspension of payments for all firms affected by the interest rate swaps mis-selling scandal. Within the next month the banks are expected to begin sending out ...
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This is Money
Bogus or not, bullying claims are costly
The Age
A DRAMATIC increase in the number of workplace bullying allegations has placed huge pressure on small businesses forced to defend many frivolous claims. Mental health experts say the byproduct of increased reporting has been a surge in bogus claims ...
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The Age
Coastal Bend Business Datebook: 02.24.13
Corpus Christi Caller Times
Topics will include services provided by the Small Business Development Center, starting a small business, small business loans and financing requirements, business plan, licensing/permit information and resources. Free, no registration required.
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How to improve time management as a small business owner
Mother Nature Network
Know when to pick up: A virtual phone number enables small business owners to work from anywhere without worrying about missing an important call or losing touch with the business. It also enables small business owners to screen their calls with caller ...
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Mother Nature Network
Redundancy can give the push into a dream business
New Zealand Herald
What disciplines are needed for running one's own small business versus having a corporate job? They'll need to know how to set up their business - for instance, the structure, tax obligations, writing a business plan, insurance, record-keeping, health ...
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Hall & Wilcox | Small Business Lending Reform Package postponed indefinitely ...
Linex Legal (press release) (registration)
Following strong opposition by industry groups in relation to the small business lending reforms proposed as a part of the Credit Reforms Phase 2 package, the Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, Bill Shorten has indicated that the ...
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Small Talk: Save the schemes that find finance for our small firms
The Independent
Treasury minister David Gauke was in congratulatory mood at the EIS Association's annual dinner at the House of Lords last week. The enterprise investment scheme, through which investors get tax breaks for putting money into smaller companies, is "the ...
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Advice sector getting tougher for independents, more consolidation expected
Wealth Professional
Market observers say more consolidation of big and small adviser groups can be expected this year as smaller businesses struggle to deal with increased regulation. OneVue CEO Connie McKeage says the regulations are being forced more heavily on ...
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Former Export-Import Bank official new director of Montana SBA
Great Falls Tribune
Between 2004 and 2012 he was the vice president for domestic business development, supervising the bank's regional office network, managing the minority and women-owned enterprise initiatives, financial institution training, and small business ...
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Business owners, community leaders learn disaster preparedness
Anniston Star
Stone was asking representatives from a diverse cross-section of county businesses including hotel managers, hospital staff, city councilmen and small business owners who were in attendance at Business Ready, a joint seminar hosted by the Calhoun ...
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SBA Brings Hurricane Relief Program to Cabinets & Closets Expo
woodworkingnetwork.com
EDISON, NJ - Hurricane Sandy disaster recovery information and support is being provided by The Small Business Administration at Cabinets & Closets Expo 2013, taking place in Edison, NJ. The SBA announced late last week that Cynthia Cowell, Public ...
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Q&A: At age 50, am I too old to start a business?
Bellingham Herald
According to a recent news release, the SBA and AARP are launching their strategic alliance to provide counseling and training to entrepreneurs over the age of 50 who want to start or grow a small business. The SBA will offer online training courses ...
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Do iPhone users have more friends and sex?
Dynamic Business
According to a recent UK study, iPhone users have more friends than those who use other mobile devices. Leisurestats.com collected data from more than 97,000 Chillisauce customers to identify what a person's choice of technology says about them.
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Millions of dollars lost to fraud
Courier Mail
Management fraud usually turns to false invoicing, non-management fraud to theft of cash and external fraud to tendering, the report says. Small businesses may, however, take some comfort from the results. Only 9 per cent of businesses with fewer than ...
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Twenty-year-old starts second business with purchase of Watertown commercial ...
North Country Public Radio
He's working out of a small business incubator Clarkson runs in downtown Potsdam, where he's juggling the demands of school and running his small businesses. "I met with a professor this morning, working on a project that's coming up that's due. I've ...
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Blogs4 new results for Small Business
 
'Score' tips on making small business succeed | The Greenwich Post
By Greenwich Post Staff
Are you looking to start a small business or need tips on how to boost the one you already have? Then head on down to Greenwich Library on Feb. 26 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. where SCORE will hold the free workshop, "The Five Keys to Small ...
The Greenwich Post
Investing in social media takes time to get right | Stuff.co.nz
Q: Should my business have a presence on social media?
Stuff.co.nz - Business
Sound Secrets for Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Success
By David Richards
The business world is a dog-eat-dog environment, but with this advice and a little common sense, you should be able to achieve SME success. ... It's not an easy time to be a small or medium sized enterprise (SME) owner at the moment.
Small Business Trends
Build a small business website | Graphic Design | HTML | PHP ...
It will be a fairly straightforward site - home page, about, blog (perhaps), gallery, links, contact, shop (no ecomm - just links to another site). I will need to be able to maintain the site myself by adding photos, blog posts, etc. I look forward to ...
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Web4 new results for Small Business
 
Small-business resources - Houston Chronicle
Hosted by SCORE Houston. 10 a.m.-noon, The Woodlands Chamber of Commerce, 1400 Woodloch Forest Drive, Suite 300, The Woodlands. Getting Your ...
www.chron.com/.../Small-business-resources-4302002.php
Federal Watchdog Office Saves Small Businesses | SBA.gov
$2.4 Billion in Regulatory Costs. Report Highlights Work of the SBA Office of Advocacy. WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of ...
www.sba.gov/.../federal-watchdog-office-saves-small-business...
Small Business Certifications & Audiences | SBA.gov
As the owner of a small business, you may qualify for specific SBA programs based on a variety of factors. Review the information below and determine which ...
www.sba.gov/category/navigation.../small-business-certif
3 Things You Should Know About Small Business: February 22 ...
TD Bank's franchise financing for veterans; Pinterest drives more revenue than Facebook; Kauffman's iStart success.
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