Jul 7, 2013

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Small Business Spotlight: Pistils & Petals, Miami Beach
MiamiHerald.com
Pistils & Petals. • Location: 1060 Alton Road, Miami Beach. • Service: Floral design and events. • Years in business: 15. • Management team: Elizabeth Potter, president; Tony Kohler, events director; Elisa Carnevale, retail manager; Diana Gdula, sales ...
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Upskilling small business owners key
Stuff.co.nz
Upskilling small business owners in attracting and managing capital is crucial to New Zealand's future prosperity, KPMG private enterprise partner Jon Holmes says. The company's involvement with New Zealand Trade and Enterprise's Better by Capital ...
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Small Business: Questions remain on Affordable Care Act
Newsday
The business community can breathe a sigh of relief now that employers have been given a year reprieve to comply with a key mandate of the Affordable Care Act that required larger employers to provide health insurance for workers by 2014 or face a ...
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Beer creates small business hubs
Worcester Telegram
She wrote her graduate-school dissertation on how gentrification in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood affected small manufacturers. Small businesses struggled to stay put while developers converted factories and warehouses into lucrative lofts and ...
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Small business squeezes wages as rise in super comes into effect ...
SmartCompany.com.au
One in two small business owners plan on giving their staff lower pay rises this year to help offset the government-mandated .25% increase in superannuation, according to a SmartCompany survey. Effective from July 1, employers now must pay staff 9.25 ...
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Metro Business Calendar for July 8
Richmond Times Dispatch
Henrico Business Leaders, 7 to 8:45 a.m., Richmond Marriott West, 4240 Dominion Blvd. Speaker: Sam Parker with Give More Media. Topic: "One Degree." Cost: $40 at the door. To register: www.henricobusinessleaders.com. Details: (804) 675-7502.
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Rhonda Abrams column: Support small business: Shop at your farmers market
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune
And you'll learn they have many of the same problems that all of the rest of us who run small businesses have: finding reliable workers, connecting with customers, competing with foreign imports. And they have bigger problems, too, such as weather.
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Pricing strategies for small businesses
Sydney Morning Herald
He says there are a number of factors small businesses need to consider when it comes to setting price. "First of all ask how important price is to the marketing of your business; will price influence your customers," he says. "While luxury brands ...
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A helping hand can save the day
Sydney Morning Herald
Nikola Ellis was ready to quit her small business at the start of this year. Her Mosman business, Adore Yoga, was yet to reach that critical breakthrough point where income and passion were matching her efforts after a decade of work. She felt demoralised.
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Alberto Dosal brings rare small-business background to Chamber
MiamiHerald.com
At age 62, Al Dosal once again finds himself a Miami tech pioneer. He founded a company called Compuquip 31 years ago, when an office computer's memory topped out at about 60K (roughly .00005 percent of what's found in a 1G iPod Shuffle today).
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Jim Fram on Making Small Businesses Last a Long Time
Arkansas Business Online
Jim Fram has returned to his home state to lead the Greater Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce, which, at 116 years old, is one of Arkansas' oldest businesses. A native of Fort Smith, Fram is a 1981 graduate of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock ...
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Try Patch's Small Business Site
Patch.com
Try Patch's Small Business Site. Website set up to give small businesses the digital tools, social media strategies and marketing know-how needed to ensure long-term growth. Posted by William Rupp (Editor), July 7, 2013 at 05:30 am. Comment Recommend.
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Business forum predicts a 'hot' weekend for small businesses
Fresh Business Thinking
As forecasts predict sizzling temperatures this weekend, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) expects the upturn in weather to have a positive impact on UK small businesses. Recent FSB research from earlier this year found that more than half (55 ...
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Too many slip into too high insurance
Sydney Morning Herald
Until this week, my car was insured for $49,000 but it's worth only $30,000. That poses a potential moral hazard, but it's also a waste of money for someone who hopes not to make a claim and won't have a ''lucky'' fire. Plenty of businesses are in the ...
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East El Paso Veterinarian Named 2013 "Minority Small Business Champion of ...
MENAFN.COM
EL PASO, Texas, Jul 07, 2013 (Menafn - GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) --East El Paso veterinarian Dr. Orlando Garza has been named "Minority Small Business Champion of the Year" for 2013 by the El Paso District Office of the Small Business ...
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Diamonds are forever
Sydney Morning Herald
He had previously worked in financial services, but had always had a passion for jewellery. "We didn't have a succession plan, it was just a small business. When I joined I worked on developing the web site and moved the business into the [Sydney] CBD.
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How to engage the energy lost to staff dust-ups
Sydney Morning Herald
Unmanaged stress is a common cause of workplace problems. There's nothing more frustrating for small-business owners with huge financial responsibilities than to be dragged into what are perceived as the petty squabbles of feuding staff. But it's just ...
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Branding for Small Business: Lessons from Big Businesses
Business 2 Community
Branding for Small Business: Lessons from Big Businesses image file 209192210 Your small business may not have the fan base of a company such as Coca-Cola—at least not yet. But you can still learn plenty from big companies and their branding efforts.
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Report: Misperceptions cloud ACA for small businesses
MiBiz
A new report from a Michigan research organization has found that perceptions about the federal Affordable Care Act fail to match up to the law's actual provisions, particularly for small businesses. Lost in the rhetoric over the law is the fact that ...
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Small business making better value for local authority projects
CITY A.M.
THE POUND fell to a three-year low against the dollar on Friday, after a strong increase in the number of US jobs, and the Bank of England's dovish statement earlier in the week. Capital Economics' quarterly review, released today, suggests that the ...
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Small Talk: SMEs which can't get off the ground are the real headache
The Independent
As former regulator Sir Andrew Large begins yet another inquiry into whether banks are starving small businesses of credit – in his case, specifically Royal Bank of Scotland – it is worth asking whether we are worrying most about the right people. The ...
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Fayetteville's 'Yacht Club' Trailers Score Low Rent, High Traffic as Small ...
Arkansas Business Online
Low rent and high volume of traffic have made the location attractive to small businesses with big aspirations. Morris is hopeful that the photographer, boutique, flower shop and a pair of dessert/sandwich servers now renting space are able to follow ...
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Coffee roasting bring smell of sweet success
Manawatu Standard
Personality clashes in a small business can be a nightmare. If you have a team that all get on together, joke together and enjoy having a drink together outside of work, then you are going to have a way healthier workplace and better staff retention.
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DOF sweep targets small businesses
Saipan Tribune
A multi-division team within the Department of Finance is going out to small businesses that are normally unchecked for a lot of compliance issues such as whether they have a valid business license or are current in their tax payments, compared to ...
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Small biz can SHOP for health insurance on exchange
Crain's Detroit Business
Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, small employers can use the Small Business Health Options Program, or SHOP, to purchase health insurance for themselves and their employees. The SHOP exchange -- which will be part of the federal ...
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DC area business events for the week of July 8
Washington Post
This seminar will help participants develop a plan with compelling messages, using the best tools to reach your key audience. noon-1 p.m. Alexandria Small Business Development Center. 625 North Washington St., Alexandria. Sponsor: Alexandria Small ...
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Woods Group Architects Gets Nod from Small Business Administration (Kudos)
Arkansas Business Online
Woods Group Architects Inc. of Little Rock has been named the 2013 8(a) Graduate Firm of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Woods Group entered the SBA's 8(a) Business Development Program in 1996 and received several contracts from ...
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Small firms good for local economy
expressandstar.com
The study, produced by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) in conjunction with the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES), claims that for every £1 spent with a small or medium-sized business (SME) 63 pence is re-spent in the local economy ...
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IRS scandal exposes small-biz pass-throughs
Federal Times
Seven months ago, the Treasury Department boasted that it exceeded its small-business contracting goals for the second straight year, singling out for "exceptional performance" the contractor formerly known as Signet Computers. But with the company now ...
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Great business idea! Now what?
El Paso Inc.
Robert and Rosa Lozano. Robert and Rosa Lozano opened Lozano Real Estate Group, their own real estate business, last month, after getting help from local small business resources. Lozano Real Estate Group. Photo by Melody Parra ...
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The road where small shops are BIG business
Birmingham Mail
While the city centre is dominated by chain stores and huge department stores York Road in Kings Heath boasts a row of small businesses, bursting with success. There's Maurice Robinson Sports, Cherry Red Cafe Bar, I Had One of Those, Top Banana Too, ...
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Australian businesses lose $6 billion in productivity to workplace drug and ...
SmartCompany.com.au
The Australian Drug Foundation's latest PolicyTalk report released today focuses on the impacts of alcohol and drugs in the workplace, with The ADF's head of workplace services, Phillip Collins, telling SmartCompany the impact on small business is most ...
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Act's overturn will aid business
Springfield News-Leader
Small Business Majority's scientific opinion polling found six in 10 Missouri entrepreneurs believe provisions of DOMA that required employers to treat married same-sex couples as unmarried for benefit and payroll purposes hurt small firms. The vast ...
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UK seeks fairer share for small firms from outsourcing 'oligopoly'
euronews
LONDON (Reuters) – When a modest IT firm in southern England won a 13-million pound local authority contract in 1988, it was a huge coup for a business that had annual revenue of just 4.3 million pounds. Nowadays that company has annual revenue of ...
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Telcoinabox sells NZ business to Solarix
Voxy
Solarix was attracted to Telcoinabox's presence in the Small office Home office (SoHo) and small business space in New Zealand and saw an opportunity to expand its enterprise and corporate customer base. "We saw this deal as a timely fit for the business.
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Councils 'could do more to help their local economies'
Herald Scotland
LOCAL authorities in Scotland could do more to spend money with local firms, according to research published by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). LOCAL authorities in Scotland could do more to spend money with local firms, according to research ...
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Thinking small begins to yield results
China Daily
You can spot them all across China in different shapes and sizes, ranging from small restaurants, hair salons and shops to a host of enterprises that make a variety of goods. Though these micro and small enterprises have been largely inconspicuous ...
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Quell Uncertainty With Solid Business Plan (Aaron Harris Commentary)
Arkansas Business Online
A business plan is an important part of successfully starting and eventually running a small business or entrepreneurial venture. The business plan is a dynamic written document that has a number of generally agreed-upon descriptive sections in it ...
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Don't Let These 4 Mobile Marketing Misconceptions Hold You Back
Yahoo! News
If you've been reading our blog over the last few months, you know that we haven't exactly been shy when it comes to talking about mobile. We can't help it! Mobile presents a huge opportunity for small businesses marketing and nothing gets us more ...
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High-end pawn shops solve small business cash crunch - WND
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High-end pawn shops solve small business cash crunch. 'The bigger the customer, the more high-touch it is'. Published: 3 days ago. (Reuters) When Marc Kaye needed a loan to fund his boutique insurance firm at a time when payroll, his ...
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5 Lessons K-pop and Korean Reality Shows can Teach Small ...
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What small business owners can learn from at least two of many niches in Korean entertainment industry: Reality Shows and K-pop.
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Small Business Borrowing Is on the Rise | Inc.com
As small companies take out loans to purchase new tools, factories, and equipment, experts are citing an era of growth.
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Small business stricken by Obamacare mandate | The Detroit News
Acknowledging business frustration with the Affordable Care Act, the Obama Administration has suspended until 2015 the law's narrow mandate that companies ...
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