Natural disasters—like businesses—come in all different shapes and sizes. A big one like Hurricane Katrina decimates a region and destroys almost half of the small businesses it touches. The Red Cross estimates that 40 percent of small businesses never manage to reopen after a major disaster.
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Jul 01, 2011
Payment processing for your new business doesn’t have to be a hassle. The NASE’s exclusive payment processing vendor, First American Payment Systems, offers a step-by-step guide to figuring out a payment processing plan for your new business.
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Jun 30, 2011
With spending up and revenues down, Senate lawmakers are looking to rein in the tax gap in order to bring down the national debt. The NASE has been very active in suggesting ways that the gap might be closed, including small changes to current tax code and tax policy.
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Jun 30, 2011
The most important challenge for entrepreneurs isn't starting a company, but growing it from three employees to 30 ... to 300, to 3,000.
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Jun 15, 2011
Chronic fatigue syndrome is more than just feeling tired all the time. It’s a persistent and debilitating disorder that can change your way of life—sometimes permanently.
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Jun 06, 2011
Small Business Legal Services was a name that said it all, but maybe too much. The problem: Many companies on the larger end of the small-business spectrum didn’t classify themselves as small at all.
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Jun 06, 2011
It’s the big challenge every summer for self-employed parents who work from home: How to keep the kids busy during those hot, school-less days...and run a business at the same time.
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Jun 06, 2011
The federal government recently announced that it has reached the debt ceiling and has shuffled funds to meet the nation’s financial commitments. Meanwhile, micro-businesses and the self-employed believe that spending for domestic programs, job creation initiatives, tax cuts and federal subsidies should be scaled back to address the deficit, according to a recent survey by the NASE
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Jun 06, 2011
In this economy, whatever you can do to get a leg up makes all the difference. For the self employed, it’s hard to compete on price or offerings, so sometimes it’s just being a little smarter than the competition that wins the business.
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May 26, 2011
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May 26, 2011