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The Senate has approved an extra $107 million in funding for federal small-business programs overseen by the Small Business Administration.
A bill passed late last week by the Senate Appropriations Committee boosts funding for some of the agency's core programs by as much as 50%, including more resources for women, veterans and native American
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Spiraling health-care costs have forced many small employers to reduce the benefits they offer -- or, in some cases, eliminate coverage altogether.
And there's no end in sight. Health-care costs for U.S. employers are expected to rise almost 10% in 2008, according to a recent survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers of more than 500 employers and heal
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Loan fraud has been a long-standing, widespread problem within the Small Business Administration and has cost taxpayers literally hundreds of millions of dollars. But when a senior executive of Business Loan Express engineered a particularly brazen $76 million loan scam early last year, it was widely thought the SBA had finally learned its lesson.
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Ever wanted to start a business, but was told you didn't have enough money? Maybe your ready to take your current business to the next level? These are the commands to starting a business on a budget! Some great tips and advice that every entrepreneur should read!
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My background is primarily in software development and like most modern forms of work it's very much a project-driven field. Software developers are notorious for always delivering their projects late and over budget. Why? Because project managers don't fully scope out all of the tasks that must be done, and then they assign arbitrary times to t
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Getting yourself and your business unit into the mind-set of thinking about labor efficiency modeling is one of the keys to running a profitable business.
The last time you looked at your current standards was when? Do you know what the correct production efficiency from each of your job codes is, even yours? What is your monitoring frequency?
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Small marketing budget? Need to utilize those millions of cell phones that your customer's hold? These are the secrets of Buzz Marketing...
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Though fashion still accounts for 41% of the total teen budget, total teen spending in the category declined nearly 20% year over year, pointing to a “discretionary recession,” according to the 15th semi-annual “Taking Stock With Teens” study by Piper Jaffray.
Compared with last year’s study, young men spent 15% less on discretionary items (fa
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In this economy, retailers must concentrate on increasing value in purchasing and on communicating value in marketing. Identify your products with the best margins and sell those aggressively.
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Selling B2B is “consultative,” but there’s a point where you need to turn the meter on.
The concept of “consultative” selling is that the sales professional should be adding value from the very start of the customer relationship. However, if that concept is taken too literally, you can end up providing free services to a prospect that never int
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Small-business owners have an incredible amount to juggle, but typically don't have the budget to hire even temporary help.
SerebraConnect is a service that helps individuals, corporations and governments outsource tasks to skilled workers in developing nations.
That's where we come in. We post our business need on SerebraConnect, then w
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Advocates for small businesses are fighting changes in tax laws that the Bush administration says are aimed at cracking down on tax cheating, particularly by the self-employed. These changes will create a mountain of new paperwork that will be cumbersome and costly.
One proposal, part of President Bush’s budget, would require detailed reporting
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In a business downturn, employee training may be the first budget to be cut at a small company. But the right training has the potential to have a dramatic impact on a company's bottom line, and a program that raises the level of employee engagement can help retention.
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Whether you're running the Home or Professional version of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, keep these dates in mind.
June 30, 2008: If your mind's set on using XP (like 60-plus percent of these poll-takers), this is the last day Microsoft will let hardware vendors and retailers install it on new computers, other than on budget-minde
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