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Wall Street Lends Small Businesses a Helping Hand

By Zack Duncan | Published: May 10, 2012

We’ve all heard the horror stories of Wall Street, the stories about how the 1% don’t care about anybody but themselves and would rather see others suffer than lend a helping hand. However, that may not be as true as we all once thought as Wall Street marketers have started lending a helping hand to [...]

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Small Business Expo to Help Small Business Owners with Government Contracting

By Zack Duncan | Published: March 21, 2012

The state departments of General Services and Public Welfare have decided to join forces with the City of Harrisburg and the Naval Supply Systems Command for the Second Annual Small Business Exposition. The expo is designed to help small business owners work through the procedures and processes required for government contracting. The event is scheduled [...]

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Orbitz for Business Express Tailored for Small Businesses

By Zack Duncan | Published: March 7, 2012

Orbitz for Business, which is the corporate travel brand for Orbitz Worldwide, has just launched a new venture, Orbitz for Business Express. This new business was set up to offer savings, convenience and professional travel services to small businesses with travel needs. This also includes those small businesses currently without a managed travel program. Orbitz [...]

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Obama Proposes Corporate Tax Cuts, Small Businesses Not Buying It

By Zack Duncan | Published: February 22, 2012

Recently, Obama proposed eliminating corporate tax loopholes and, in turn, using that money to cut the business tax rate from 35% to 28%. According to a statement from Obama, “The tax code is unnecessarily complicated and forces America’s small businesses to spend countless hours and dollars filing their taxes.” The only problem is that this [...]

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Small Business Owners Expected to Take Advantage of Health Care Reform

By Zack Duncan | Published: February 10, 2012

Health policy researchers have conducted new analysis and simulations have determined that only a select few employers will take advantage of certain rules that allow some small businesses to avoid pending health care reform measures. This will render the rules obsolete and will also minimize their impact on health insurance costs. However, that could very [...]

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Small Businesses Eligible for Free Consultation from OSHA Professionals

By Zack Duncan | Published: January 25, 2012

If you own your own business, then you are already well aware that you have a legal obligation to make sure your workplace is healthy and safe for your employees as well as your customers. And if you know that, you must also know that if you fail to meet these requirements, you could very [...]

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$410 Million in Small Business Loans Given Out in Missouri

By Zack Duncan | Published: January 11, 2012

Missouri, or at least its State Treasurer Clint Zweifel, is very generous with its small business owners as Zweifel stated that he awarded 1,400 low-interest loans to farmers and small businesses last year with the total amount of the loans equaling $410 million, a new record to say the least. This number is up 40% from [...]

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Economy Benefiting Greatly from Small Businesses

By Zack Duncan | Published: December 28, 2011

It’s no surprise that our economy is in rough shape. But one of the things that has helped keep our economy from completely hitting rock bottom is the role small businesses play in it. Over the past few years, small businesses have contributed a lot to the U.S. economy in a very positive way. According to [...]

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Small Business IT Needs Grow, Creating Expansion for CMIT Solutions

By Zack Duncan | Published: December 16, 2011

Being a franchised network of IT consultants to small businesses, CMIT Solutions is expecting to expand from 130 locations to 500 locations across the nation and from only having units in 32 states to all 50 states within the next couple of years. CMIT attributes the growth to the growing needs for IT in small [...]

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Global Small Business Lending Slow

By Zack Duncan | Published: December 1, 2011

It is obvious that lending to large companies is increasing steadily across the entire world. However, as lending grows for big businesses, it only shrinks for small and medium-sized businesses as they struggle to obtain financing. A new paper from Omega Performance entitled Maximizing Results, Minimizing Risks examines the reasons for the reluctance of financiers to [...]

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