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Most small business owners may not even be aware of “purging,” but far too many may have been hit by the practice. Purging is where an insurance company jacks up rates, usually but not always after an employee becomes seriously ill, with the sole purpose of forcing the company to drop coverage. In essence, the business is “purged” from the ins Read More

Starting in 2011, a family making $500,000 would have to pay $1,500 in additional income tax to help subsidize coverage for the uninsured. A family making $1 million would have to pay $9,000. Employers who do not provide health insurance to workers would generally have to pay a fee or penalty to the government. The fee would be equal to 8 perc Read More

A new study insists that Obama-style healthcare reform will benefit small and midsize businesses. The study — out of MIT conducted for the Small Business Majority, a nonprofit healthcare advocacy group — was done against the backdrop of data indicating that small businesses in the United States at one time were major providers of health coverag Read More

This article takes a look at 100 truly outstanding business card designs which show that there are truly no limits to the design of a business card. Read More

A generic domain name describes a product or service using the words an Internet user would typically associate with the topic. The benefits of generic domain names are that they attract more search engine clicks (both organic and paid) for product and service searches. Read More

It's a known fact that it costs five times more to gain a new customer than it does to retain an existing one. So why do companies seem to invest more time, money and effort in the former, when the latter is what will really keep them afloat? “According to Bill Drury, as reported in Communications Expert Coaches Professionals on Client-Retenti Read More

Google is auto-filling local business profiles with photos and videos pulled in from other web sites. Read More

“Three out of 4 small business owners found a green vendor to be more appealing than a non-green vendor if the service and price are the same.” This statement comes from PayCycle, a payroll service from Palo Alto serving 85,000 small businesses. Recently they did a survey of 202 randomly chosen businesses from among their customer base, and th Read More

AdAge reports that the Federal Trade Commission is moving closer to a proposed plan that will begin regulating viral marketing and blogs. Regardless of what side of the political fence you are on it's starting to get a bit scary as to just how much the government wants to be the overseer of everything. Read More

In the weeks since President Obama proposed rolling back federal income tax rates on the nation's top two marginal tax rates as part of his federal budget, the term "small business owner" has turned into a political football. Proponents of the budget proposal claim that less than 3% of small business owners have net household income above $ Read More