How the Cloud Can Transform Your Small Business
Receipts shoved into shoeboxes. Unreadable desk calendars stained with coffee rings. An inbox bursting with hundreds of unread emails… Sometimes, running a small business isn’t pretty. Now, imagine what a seamlessly streamlined business would look like – one where finances are available at the click of a keyboard, inboxes are neatly organized and filing cabinets are a thing of the past. Therein lies the value of the cloud. The popularity of cloud-based software has beenRead More
BY Jeremy Quittner: The midterm elections are just three weeks away. We break down the biggest issues for small business
The Midterm Elections: A Small-Business Primer
Think back to this time last fall, and you’ll remember Congress had shut down the federal government over a budget impasse, and political sniping led to the nation nearly defaulting on its debt. Both scenarios created huge headaches and uncertainty in the U.S. and for small business owners. Now with Election Day just three weeks away, some small business owners are wondering whether a similar firestorm is on the horizon. To find out more, IRead More
Small Business with WordPress
Contractorship in Engineering and Construction
Contractor is an honorable profession and business. Therefore, it is also profitable small business too. You have trade license for any kind of small business like contractor for engineering and construction work. You are a contractor of engineering and construction type small business (or contractor of export-import and supply products, goods and equipments). No matter, you are male either female but you engage to road, and bridge construction and repairing, small level building construction, andRead More
Gene Marks, President of The Marks Group
Small Business Owners’ Definition of Success Fuels Their Optimism
Back in the day, you didn’t just buy a TV set. These were enormous pieces of heavy equipment. Our forefathers and ancestors who bravely watched television before the days of House of Cards and Homeland had to order their set in advance (by phone or even in person!), arrange for delivery and then have someone set it up in the living room for not only the best viewing, but also the best reception. That’s what Chris Swift’sRead More
Jim Blasingame
Small business can’t fund an economic expansion alone
How’s the economy going? In my long career, it’s hard to imagine a time when you could get as many different answers to this question. We know the answer if we’re talking to any of the millions of chronically unemployed or under-employed; they’re not represented in the misleading U3 unemployment index used by politicians and the media. And the same goes for the millions who were forced to transition from unemployment to early retirement, disabilityRead More
Bill Dunkelberg
October 2014 Report: Small business optimism drops
SUMMARY OPTIMISM INDEX September’s Optimism Index gave up 0.8 points, falling to 95.3. At 95.3, the Index is now 5 points below the pre-recession average (from 1973 to 2007). Four Index components improved, six declined. Two declined by 10 points total, accounting for the entire decline in the Index score. Unfortunately, the two that fell drastically were job openings and planned capital outlays, which are directly relevant to GDP growth and hiring. LABOR MARKETS NFIBRead More
Opening A Small Business
Market gardening, a small business for the green minded!
Especially in the last few years there has been great interest in market gardening, a particular type of small farming in which people, usually looking for an alternative lifestyle, produce high value crops from a small area of land. The demand for naturally grown food is soaring. Some sources say by as much as 20% per year. If you are looking at the possibility of opening a small business of your own and you happenRead More
Barry Moltz
These Small Business Accounting Mistakes Come at a Big Cost
There is money flowing out of your business right now as a result of simple small business accounting mistakes. Below are the top ten and how to fix them: Not Balancing Your Bank Statements All sorts of strange deductions can happen from your cash accounts at your bank. For example, checks and direct transfers can be cleared for the wrong amount. Checks can be cleared in your account that are not your checks. A transactionRead More
China's State Companies Begin Hunt for Investors by Yvonne Lee of The Wall Street Journal
Sinopec Intends to Sell Up to a 30% Stake in New Gasoline, Convenience-Store Unit
China is kicking off a potentially significant experiment in injecting some entrepreneurial juice into its state-owned firms. State-owned China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., known as Sinopec, last week started the process of vetting would-be investors in a new unit that operates more than 30,000 gasoline stations and 23,000 convenience stores in some of the richest areas of the country. Some 37 companies and consortia—including Chinese Internet power Tencent Holdings Ltd.—have expressed interest, according to peopleRead More
Gene Marks of Forbes Contributor and Hasan Uz-Zaman Shemul of D5C Edited
WordPress D5C Web Themes and the Best Accounting Software for Small Business
We have knew many things about that how a start and management system of small business and procedure to develop website for small business by using many WordPress web developers like D5 Creation. But when your business fully launched and your products and services is available into market, you will have to use accounting software. This software should make your work more easy and not consume your valuable times. Today everything is very closely related with computer,Read More