Apr 23, 2013

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Small business owners support increase in federal minimum wage, advocacy ...
Washington Post
That's the finding of a survey released Wednesday by the Small Business Majority, a group that advocates on behalf of small businesses. Two-thirds of the 500 owners in the survey supported an increase from the current minimum hourly wage of $7.25, ...
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Small Businesses With "Involuntary" IT Managers Lose $24 Billion in ...
Wall Street Journal
Microsoft-commissioned AMI-Partners study examines impact of non-IT professionals managing technology in small businesses across several countries. REDMOND, Wash., April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Small businesses are losing more than $24 billion in ...
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ENCOA Launches New Small Business Partner Program
Wall Street Journal
HOUSTON, April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ENCOA (Energy Company of America) recently launched a new small business program in Ohio called The Partner Program. The Partner Program offers electricity and natural gas to small businesses at a secure ...
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Survey Reveals Small Businesses Struggling to Keep Up With Web Evolution
Wall Street Journal
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 23, 2013) - Today SiteApps announced the findings of a comprehensive study of small businesses' online strategies, with more than half (54 percent) of SMBs saying they are concerned with technology outpacing ...
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EBay CEO Donahoe: Exempt Small Businesses From Internet Sales Tax
Newsmax.com
"The trouble with the bill is that it treats mom-and-pop businesses the same way as it does multibillion-dollar retailers. Yet a small business with a dozen employees simply can't be lumped in with national behemoths such as Amazon and retail chains ...
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Osborne expands lending scheme to help small business
Telegraph.co.uk
The scheme will also be expanded to include lending by financial leasing corporations and factoring corporations, which provide almost £20bn of working capital to smaller businesses every year, and certain mortgage and housing credit corporations.
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NASA Announces 2012 Small Business Industry Awards
Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON, April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on Tuesday recognized three companies as winners of the agency's 2012 Small Business Industry Awards (SBIA).
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Franchises give small-business owners chance to grow
Kansas City Star
Before exploring franchising, small business owners need to polish their business models and systemize what they are doing, Taylor said. They should also be prepared to spend time and money to create the required documents and support systems for ...
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EnTouch Controls Tackles Second Largest Source of Energy Costs for Small ...
Wall Street Journal
With the addition of lighting control to the already shipping HVAC controls, the EnTouch EMS is one of the first small-business EMSs to integrate control and management of the systems. The EnTouch One Lighting Control Platform includes a wireless ...
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Commentary: New credit card surcharge rules offer opportunities, challenges ...
Washington Post (blog)
For example, is it in a small business owner's best interest to levy credit card usage fees? How is the national business community reacting to this new environment? Why does it take a class-action settlement to give retailers the right to charge what ...
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Alberta small business owners paying heavy price for labour shortages
Edmonton Journal
CALGARY — A serious shortage of qualified people is severely affecting the growth and success of small and medium-sized businesses in Western Canada, says a new report released Tuesday by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.
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Advice: Overstaffing can break your small business — here's how to know when ...
Washington Post (blog)
Small business owners often have little time to develop strategies to effectively monitor their company's financial health. As a result, many of them know what their company needs to survive, like how much revenue they need to cover payroll, but not ...
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Small Business Owners to Banks: Meet My Needs
American Banker
More than 20% of small businesses owners also want their banks to make more money available and to connect them with other small business owners. A fifth of those who participated in the study want their bank to serve as a financial mentor, according ...
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Small Business Apps - Geek Sugar
GeekSugar.com
Apps make our personal tech worlds go round, and they've also become a crucial part of how small businesses function. Palmaz Vineyards in Napa, CA, a family-owned winery we recently visited, is one such example of where apps available to the public in ...
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Small business is too big to ignore
Milton Ulladulla Times
"Look at it this way – if every small business was able to employ one extra person there would be no unemployment in Australia," he said. "And governments can help businesses employ extra staff by cutting the costs of them doing business. "The key ...
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Small business: Family businesses - Paul Jancys
New Zealand Herald
Rather than create new divisions we may look at acquiring similar businesses and running those as separate standalone entities. Growing numbers of small businesses are retailing purely online rather than taking on the expense of the bricks and mortar.
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New Zealand Herald
Small business: Family businesses - John Tucker
New Zealand Herald
John Tucker, President, The International Centre for Families in Business, Staffordshire, England. He works exclusively with families in business, usually facing some form of transitional change. He spoke at the recent 3rd Family Business Annual Forum ...
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Saskatchewan small business squeezed by labour shortage: CFIB survey
Regina Leader-Post
REGINA — Saskatchewan small and medium-sized businesses are feeling the effects of the skilled labour shortage more than any other business owners in Western Canada, says a survey released Tuesday by the Canadian Federation of Independent ...
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Regina Leader-Post
SMALL BUSINESS PERSON OF THE YEAR Holland receives chamber award
Bowling Green Daily News
David Holland was almost a no-show for this morning's Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce announcement where he was named Small Business Person of the Year. He didn't even know he was nominated for the award until Monday, and he had ...
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Red tape 'killing' small business — Davies wants more
BDlive
SMALL business activity in South Africa is in a miserable state, a new survey has found. It warns that entrepreneurship in South Africa is at its lowest level in three years, with dire implications for hopes of the sector creating thousands of new jobs ...
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Google ads help small businesses with low-cost marketing
Economic Times
SINGAPORE: Small businesses are using low-cost marketing tools on the internet to gain customers in global markets. These companies that sell a range of products such as apparel, home accessories and party supplies use products such as Google ...
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Economic Times
Small Business in the Crosshairs of Cyber Criminals
IBTimes.co.uk
April 23, 2013 6:17 PM GMT. Cyber criminals are targeting small UK businesses who are more vulnerable and less likely to have sufficient security in place. Small business in the UK has come under increasing threat from cyber attacks in the last 12 months.
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IBTimes.co.uk
Small Business Groups Offer Mixed Reaction to Obama Budget
Small Business Trends
From a small business perspective, the proposed Fiscal Year 2014 budget unveiled last week by President Barack Obama gets mixed reviews. Critics say the budget does not do enough to alleviate the tax burden on small businesses.
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Small Business Trends
Small Business Development Center moves to Salinas
Monterey County Herald
The county's Small Business Development Center opened its new Salinas office Monday after more than two years in Gonzales. Associate Director Andrea Nield said she had to find new ways to save money and the office's $1,000 monthly rent seemed like ...
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Mayoral rivals blame Christine Quinn for Bloomberg's small business taxes ...
New York Daily News
"You broke it, you own it," Public Advocate Bill de Blasio said Tuesday, blaming Quinn for the leap in small-business fines over the last few years. Quinn, he said, used "tortured logic" to justify overturning two voter referendums to let Bloomberg and ...
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New York Daily News
Which Kind of Small Business Is the Biggest Job Creator?
Inc.com
It's Main Street mom-and-pop shops that are the real job creators--at least, according to Karen Mills, the outgoing Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA). The Washington Post recently tapped Mills as their newest blogger to discuss ...
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Inc.com
Small Business Owner Sues City Of Gahanna For Crumbling Business
10TV
Small Business Owner Sues City Of Gahanna For Crumbling Business. Tuesday April 23, 2013 6:25 PM UPDATED: Tuesday April 23, 2013 6:26 PM. By Danielle Elias. Gahanna's Creekside development has already seen its fair share of problems. It cost tens ...
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Executive pay balloons for federal contractors; small businesses add up to big gap
Washington Times
Red River was given preference because of its status as a small business. In 2010, it sold an Apple MacBook Pro notebook computer to the Air Force for $6,584. The newest model of that computer can be purchased online from Apple Inc. for $2,799.
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Washington Times
Norfolk company SBA's small business of the year
Lincoln Journal Star
Petersen Ag Systems, Inc., has been named the Nebraska Small Business of the Year for 2013 by the U.S. Small Business Administration. The Norfolk firm is an agricultural equipment supplier of irrigation and grain handling products with outlets in ...
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Chamber announces small business of the year winners
Wausau Daily Herald
ROTHSCHILD — An information technology firm, a drug store and a child mentoring organization were named Tuesday as the 2013 Wausau Region Chamber of Commerce small businesses of the year. RMM Solutions won in the business to business ...
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SBA aims to teach small businesses about social media
NJBIZ
The U.S. Small Business Administration and the W20 Group, a network of digital communications companies focused on business solutions, is launching a five-topic social media webinar series to help small businesses grow using the networking tool.
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Minnesota small businesses confident, but cautious, in survey
Pioneer Press
Minnesota small-business owners are slightly more optimistic about the economy than those in other states, according to a new U.S. Bank survey. The survey reported 54 percent of Minnesota small-business owners described the economy as being in a ...
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Senate moves ahead on online sales tax — but would it help or handicap small ...
Washington Post
Small business groups and anti-tax conservatives warn that online merchants would face a nearly impossible task of tracking and charging the appropriate sales tax rates for customers who live in any number of the country's roughly 9,600 state and local ...
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Blogs10 new results for Small Business
 
Five Zoho apps to help expand your small business | TechRepublic
By Jack Wallen
Zoho has a lot to offer small businesses, but here are five specific Zoho apps that could help immediately.
on TechRepublic
STOP LOSS: Democrats Bent on Forcing Small Businesses into ...
By ColoradoPeakPolitics
As the Peak has pointed out time and time again, the Democrat-controlled Colorado state legislature have paid ample lip service to small business and economic issues, but their actions during the session tell a different story altogether.
Colorado Peak Politics
Will the internet sales tax bill help or hurt the small business retailer?
By Cynthia Boris
President Obama on Monday, said that the proposed Marketplace Fairness Act, which would require online retailers to collect sales tax, ...
Marketing Pilgrim - Internet...
Mobile Marketing Continues to Empower Small Businesses | Mobile ...
By Michael
According to a new report from Double Linx, nothing can help a small business grow faster than embracing mobile marketing, particularly through today's leading.
Mobile Marketing Watch
Citing Term Limits, Rivals Blame Quinn For Business Woes Of ...
By The Daily Politics
Playing to the small business crowd, the Democratic candidates also piled on two bugaboos raised in questioning by heads of each borough's chamber of commerce - bike lanes and street vendors. All were critical of Mayor Bloomberg's ...
The Daily Politics
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Legislation targets online sellers — Business Management Daily ...
By Small Business Tax Strategies
in Small Business Tax,Small Business Tax Deduction Strategies. Momentum is building for legislation that would impose sales taxes on more online retailers. The Marketplace Fairness Act, recently reintroduced in Congress, would allow ...
Business Management Daily
Putting a Dollar Value on a Facebook Fan - NYTimes.com
By By GENE MARKS
As noted in Monday's Dashboard summary of the week's small-business news, a social media marketing firm, Syncapse, has published a report that says the average value of a Facebook fan is $174.17. Seeking further details about the ...
You're the Boss
N.Y. Mayoral Rivals Again Attack Quinn's 2008 Term-Limit Stance ...
By By KATE TAYLOR
On Tuesday morning, at a forum on small business issues organized by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce and held at St. Francis College, the public advocate, Bill de Blasio, said he saw an increasingly punitive attitude by the Bloomberg ...
City Room
Turning Square Cricket Rating Software | Stuff.co.nz
By TOM PULLAR-STRECKER
Cricketers around the world could soon be evaluated using software developed in Wellington by Paul Bracewell, a member of the Bracewell cricketing family who has a PhD in statistics.
Stuff.co.nz - Business

Web2 new results for Small Business
 
Jean Horstman: Navigating Uncertainty to Grow Small Business ...
While the economic reports of the day are only modestly improving, there are pockets where small employers are thriving. In their success, we can rewrite the ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/...-/small-business-growth_b_30953...
Forecasting for Small Business Growth - Small Business Computing
Business forecasting may sound intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be. Following these three small business tips can help make business forecasting a lot ...
www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/.../forecasting-for-small-bu...


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