The U.S. government purchases $500 billion worth of goods and services each year and is required to spend at least 23 percent of it with small businesses. Fortunately, you don’t have to build tanks or manufacture parts for fighter jets to enter this market.
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Jul 29, 2011
Think of all the critical information your home-based business generates: intellectual property, sensitive customer data, financial reports, and that incredible marketing campaign you’re launching next quarter. Now think of those assets leaving with a departing employee and the potential scenarios that could result. Gives you the shivers, right?
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Jul 29, 2011
When it comes to small-business creation, the Obama administration is finally on the same page as the NASE. For 30 years, the NASE’s mission has been to help business owners manage and grow this country’s smallest companies. And earlier this year the White House launched Startup America, an initiative to accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship in the U.S
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Jul 29, 2011
Find out what the IRS has ready to help you.
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Jul 28, 2011
At a recent joint Coalition for Affordable Health Coverage and U.S. Chamber of Commerce event, Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf said the agency has begun to research the effectiveness of healthy behavior on controlling health care costs.
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Jul 28, 2011
Pat Bennett, owner of La Mesa, Calif.-based small business Wicked Coursing, recently received a $20,000 award from the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE).
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Jul 18, 2011
In less than two and a half years, the vast majority of the self-employed and micro-businesses (fewer than ten employees) will be required by law to purchase health coverage that will likely be more expensive and less flexible than their current plan.
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Jul 13, 2011
John Wright, Chairman of the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE)’s Board of Directors, announced today that Kristie Arslan, a ten-year veteran of the association, has assumed its leadership as President and CEO.
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Jul 11, 2011
NASE President Kristie Arslan appears on MSNBC's Your Business to discuss small business optimism in 2011.
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Jul 11, 2011
The American Medical Association’s House of Delegates recently voted to reaffirm its support for “individual responsibility” in the purchase of health insurance provided that individuals unable to afford insurance have assistance available to them, according to President Cecil B. Wilson.
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Jul 11, 2011