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
The National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) announced its support today of a bill that would help decrease a potential paperwork nightmare for the self-employed and micro-businesses (10 or fewer employees).
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Feb 01, 2012
“Tax incentives for startups and for businesses that have recently purchased new equipment are certainly a start, but we are concerned that so few of the policies suggested actually apply to the largest segment of small businesses – the self-employed and micro-businesses. That key demographic makes up more than 78% of the nation’s small business population,” commented NASE President Kristie L. Arslan.
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Jan 31, 2012
In a letter to Director Richard Cordray, NASE along with 48 small business organizations in expressing concerns related to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's implementation of small business provisions in the Dodd-Frank Act.
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Jan 30, 2012