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54 min ago | CBS Local

Your Small Business Retirement Plans

If you are smart enough to start your own business, you should be smart enough to start a retirement plan as well! Here are some ideas to get your retirement savings started.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Retirement, IRA, Pension

3 hrs ago | WSFA-TV Montgomery

Facebook & Twitter impacting credit reports

Did your credit take a nose dive in the recession? Or perhaps you're young and haven't had time to build a solid financial history? We found some financial companies are using social media to connect to their customers, even using it to evaluate if they're credit worthy! For example, BMX biking is Adam Grandmaison's passion and business.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Facebook, Twitter, Personal Finance

6 hrs ago | Detroit Free Press

Michigan lawmaker seeks to make small business office

A Michigan lawmaker wants to create a new state office with the goal of helping small businesses get started and thrive.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Michigan

10 hrs ago | Small Business Trends

Small Businesses Dodged a Bullet on E-Verify - For Now

If you haven't heard of the E-Verify system yet, chances are you will in the future.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Immigration Reform, US News, US Politics, Mary Landrieu, US Senate, Democrat

10 hrs ago | UnionLeader.com

Ignorance abounds: Obamacare and small businesses

Small Business Week in Manchester kicked off on Monday with a forum on what businesses can expect from Obamacare.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Opinion

Wed May 22, 2013

The Moultrie News

HR How to - what you need to know

Are you a small business owner with questions about your rights? Are you a supervisor whose employee is unhappy with the dress code policy? Or perhaps your company social media policy is not as enforceable as you might think.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Human Resources, Charleston, SC

Patch.com

Introducing Small Business Patch

Patch has launched a new site 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

The WHIR

Go Daddy Aims to Get Indian Small Businesses Online with New Hands-on Campaign

Go Daddy has launched a new campaign in three Indian cities to show small businesses how to create a web presence Go Daddy announced on Wednesday that it has launched a new campaign in three Indian cities to show small businesses how to create a web presence in the time it takes to finish a cup of coffee.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, World News, India,

The Washington Post

Hurricane Sandy aid for small business is moving slowly, raises concerns in Oklahoma

Some are concerned there will not be enough federal resources avaiable to meet a surge in demand from tornado-struck areas of Oklahoma.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Hurricane, Weather, Hurricane Sandy, Business News

Fortune

Even small business is bigger in Texas

But over the past few years, from the inner cities to out-on-the-range, smaller firms have been stirring the Lone Star State economy.

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Related Topix: Texas, Personal Finance, Country, Lonestar

GigaOM

Vermont sues patent troll over small business shakedowns

Patent trolls have been bleeding legitimate businesses for years - now a state government has turned the tables and asked a troll to pay $10,000 for each of the hundreds of threatening letters it has mailed out.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Internet Troll

OregonLive.com

Rogue Creamery in Central Point wins Small Business Administration award

Rogue Creamery's co-owners, David Gremmels and Cary Bryant, were presented the Small Business Administration Director's Impact Award by Oregon Gov.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Central Point, OR, John Kitzhaber, US Governors, Life, Food, Cheese, Rogue River, OR, Travel

The Times-Herald

Chamber honors Small Business of the Year

From left are Greg Wallace and Samantha Brazie of Progressive, program emcee Steve Mader, and Dr.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Newnan, GA, Medicine, Health, Chiropractic

Sports of Yore

Small Business Branding: What Is Your Super Power?

For small businesses, branding is like having a super power ; it makes your firm stand out in a message-laden ecosystem.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Marketing

Miami Today

Small business credit loosens up

By Marilyn Bowden Growing a small business requires access to credit, and lending is not yet not at pre-recession standards.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance

Business Journal

RapidAdvance takes subprime commercial lending to prime time

RapidAdvance is takings its easy money message to the airwaves with its first TV advertising campaign.

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Related Topix: TV Advertising, Personal Finance

Small Business Trends

U.S. Government To Pay $3 Million in Back Fees to Small Businesses

The U.S. federal government owes 1,281 small businesses approximately $3 million collectively in termination fees.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Republican, Sam Graves

Arbitrage Magazine

The Secret to Small Business Success: Sell What You Love

Russ Leiner sits back in his chair, the cool early-April breeze wafting past us into the spacious living room, and smiles.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance

Tue May 21, 2013

Merced Sun-Star

Merced City Council backs cash incentive for businesses wanting to move downtown

The City Councilman unanimously backed an evolving plan hatched by Councilman Mike Murphy that would provide a roughly $1,000 incentive for new businesses that open downtown.

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Related Topix: Merced, CA, Personal Finance

Patch.com

Taking Care of Business: Virginia No. 3 in Best Places to Start Up

Virginia has been ranked the third-best state for starting a business, according to a new report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

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Related Topix: Tysons Corner, VA, Personal Finance