The self-employed health insurance deduction is one of the most powerful deductions you can take—and one of the single most-powerful ways to address the affordability of health insurance, says the NASE's Keith Hall.
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Feb 08, 2012
Modern workers might find it hard to believe that multitasking is a relatively new idea. For most of us, the need to accomplish many things at once seems like a given. But, believe it or not, the concept of multitasking didn’t crop up in the workplace until around the time that every desk got a computer.
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Feb 08, 2012
Would it be a blessing or a business killer if the whole world knew what your customers thought of your micro-business? In the social media age, the question isn’t if, but in what format, people tell others what they think of your company.
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Feb 08, 2012
According to a 2011 report on social media issued by research company Nielsen, Americans spend almost a quarter of their Internet time visiting social networking sites and blogs. That means potential clients are far more likely to learn about your freelance business on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn—the sites where they spend most of their time—than any other place on the Web.
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Feb 03, 2012
What is the best way to establish a trademark for a business?
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Feb 03, 2012
Tasha Scott has been an NASE Member since 2011. She owns Scott Realtime Reporting LLC in Montgomery, Ala.
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Feb 03, 2012
Congress closed out 2011 by agreeing to a short-term extension of the payroll tax cut. Now that they are back in session, your lawmakers are wrangling to come to a longer one-year deal. As they debate another payroll tax extension proposal, I again encourage them to put partisan politics aside and pass the payroll tax extension.
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Feb 03, 2012
The NASE’s recent call to Congress to heed the Self-Employed Agenda focusing on taxes was heard this week in the Senate. Senators Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.) introduced the Small Business Tax Extenders Act of 2012, which would continue some popular tax breaks for the self-employed and micro-businesses (10 or fewer employees) for an additional two years.
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Feb 03, 2012
In a letter sent to the Senate Banking Committee on Monday, NASE along with 30 other organizations, urged the Senate to ensure that the CFPB is in accordance with the Snowe-Pryor provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act that ensure small businesses are not unjustly burdened with costly regulation.
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Feb 03, 2012
NASE submitted a statement for the record on yesterday's, February 1st, House Small Business Committee hearing on "The Path to Job Creation: The State of American Small Businesses."
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Feb 02, 2012