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3 hrs ago | CBS Local

Second Small Business Center Opens On Staten Island

Small businesses on Staten Island now have a second location to seek superstorm Sandy-related help and address their storm-related issues.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance

Mon May 20, 2013

UnionLeader.com

Health insurance: Small business owners seek answers but get few at Manchester forum

If they were looking for definitive answers about what kinds of plans will become available on the new health insurance exchanges that are supposed to open on Oct.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Health Insurance, Health, Manchester, NH

Business Journal

United Airlines launching small business loyalty program

United Airlines said last week that it is launching a new U.S. travel loyalty program that will enable small businesses to earn and redeem miles, the Chicago Business Journal reported.

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Related Topix: Airlines, United Airlines, Personal Finance, us Travel, North America Travel, Travel, Chicago Travel

BizReport

Reports: Social, Cloud offering assist to small businesses

First, from Carbonite , an infographic which shows how the cloud is helping small businesses better balance their needs.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Marketing

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Small business struggle with slumping prices

A private survey has found trading conditions for small businesses improved slightly in the first three months of the year, but are still in contraction.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance

Tipperary Today

Tipperary is "ideal" location for small businesses

Network North Tipperary Committee Members photographed with Tom Doorley at the Who To Talk To Event which took place at Thurles Chamber Enterprise Centre on Tuesday 14th May - Joan McGowan, Secretary, Network North Tipperary, Emma d Arcy, PR0 and Louisa Condon, President.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Marketing, Agriculture, Science

Deming Headlight

Small businesses benefit from Affordable Care Act

For years, we had a health insurance market that was broken for small businesses.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Health Insurance, Health, Opinion

The New Zealand Herald

Small business: Big power savings with new tool

More than 2,500 businesses have used the Electricity Authority's What's My Number business tool to make savings on their electricity bills with one business finding the difference between the cheapest and most expensive pricing option was $28,000 a year.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance

Sun May 19, 2013

The New Zealand Herald

Small Business: Sugar firm aims for sweet result

Co-founder Hamish Gordon says the firm is trying to achieve a point of difference in packaging.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance

New York Post

Big Apple is hard on small startups

But according to recent polls looking at entrepreneurship, there are many huge hurdles facing small startups, starting with a state and local tax rate of almost 16 percent, compared with the US average of 6.8 percent.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Outsourcing

Examiner.com

$500 million dollar rooftop solar leasing program launched

A program that could lead to 110 megawatts of new solar electrical generation across the nation was announced by Goldman Sachs and SolarCity .

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Related Topix: Startups, SolarCity, Goldman Sachs, Financial Services, Investment Services, Personal Finance

Patch.com

Introducing Small Business Patch

Patch has launched a new site, Small Business Patch , to educate and empower small businesses with the digital tools, social media strategies and marketing know-how needed to ensure long-term growth.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Marketing, Corcoran Group, Real Estate

Daily Herald

Retiring boomers driving sales of small businesses

Roberta Bonoff, president and CEO of Creative Kidstuff, a toy store chain, at the store in St.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance

The Beaumont Enterprise

QuickBooks Customers Can Print Checks On Multiple Computers With EzCheckPrinting Software

QuickBooks Customers Can Print Checks On Multiple Computers With EzCheckPrinting Software New and improved EzCheckprinting software now allows Quickbooks customers to print checks even more easily by allowing for multiple printers to be utilized.Halfpricesoft.com's Ezcheckprinting cheque writer allows QuickBooks customers a better and less ... (more)

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Related Topix: Computers, Personal Finance

Sat May 18, 2013

Patch.com

Municipal Government Committee OKs Baldelli Hunt Tax Rate Bill

The House Municipal Government Committee has approved legislation sponsored by Rep.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Woonsocket, RI

Small Business Trends

Twitter Suspension? First Step: Don't Panic

Since last week, lots of legitimate business accounts have been suspended and then unsuspended on Twitter.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance

Examiner.com

The 4 top small business advertising concepts

Every small business has to advertise to get consumer attention but the question each business owner asks themselves is how best to do bring attention and get sales.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance

Examiner.com

Small Businesses: Five Reasons to Jump on the Cloud

Understanding cloud computing can be a nebulous process-hence the name "cloud"-but its benefits are clear.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Science / Technology, Cloud Computing

Business Journal

State's marijuana rules to keep feds away may hurt small businesses

Embedded in Washington's planned rules governing the state's legal marijuana industry are attempts to keep the federal government from swooping in and shutting down businesses, arresting people and seizing property because marijuana is still illegal under federal law.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance

US News & World Report

What Makes a Small Business? Depends Who You Ask

Lawmakers spend a lot of time talking up the virtues of the American small business, and a lot of time finding new ways to define it.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, US Politics, Eric Cantor, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Dave Camp