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Accidental Entrepreneurs

photo credit: The Wandering Angel Many people are falling into entrepreneurship by total accident, meaning their job or this economy has left them no choice other then to survive on their own. But many of them are asking what businesses are the best one’s to create, especially during a recession. Some of the best businesses […]

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Feel Smarter About Technology

photo credit: Matthew Clark Photography & Design If your someone who get’s around technology and automatically feels dumb, your not the only one. Many people don’t understand a lot about technology as it can be very confusing and complicated sometimes. Below are a few tips located on Small biz Technology on how you can be

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Self-Employment Is Taxing

The Wall Street Journal: Gail Rosen, who runs her own accounting firm in Martinsville, N.J., says entrepreneurs in New Jersey pay taxes of 27% to 59% of their net income, including federal, state and payroll taxes. Still, she says, “I am seeing more people than ever before start their own businesses.” As an employee, you

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Small-Business Credit Sees Thaw

The Wall Street Journal: Many small-business lenders are seeing signs of a thaw in the secondary market for loans backed by the Small Business Administration. That is spurring more lenders to originate new loans — and more small companies to apply for them. In February, the latest month for which figures are available, 35% of

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Tough Year Ahead For Business

photo credit: LeSmou Imperator Consumers decreasing their spending habits this past year and new year to come are not the only one’s. In August of 2008 a report showed that 49% of business were planning on cutting their spending and by time October rolled around that number jumped to a high of 69%. The continuous

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The Googlization Of Small Biz

Slate: Google became a household word by building better Internet search technology. But today it touches my business, NewWest.Net, in all kinds of ways that have little to do with finding things online. Google, in fact, is on the brink of becoming a sort of universal information technology utility for small businesses–a great thing, for

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