Forget “Joe the Plumber” and all the banter about the candidates’ tax plans. Yes, it’s important. But what about Sen. Obama’s and Sen. McCain’s’ positions on various workplace regulations? They’re awfully important, too, and yet nobody seems to be talking about them.
Raymond Keating, chief economist for the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council argues that the [...]
Small-business owners and association representatives spoke out about the current economic turmoil at a House Small Business Committee hearing yesterday. They expressed a mixture of frustration with the government’s reaction to the credit crisis’s impact on small businesses and outright fear that many businesses will close if they don’t get some relief – soon.
“Our [...]
Here’s something for the silver-lining department: Hard economic times will force more small businesses to become smarter marketers. They may even get Web sites.
Kelsey Group, a Princeton, N.J., local search and directory research firm, estimates that the percentage of small and midsize home- and trade-services businesses with Web sites will increase to 60% by 2010, [...]
Someone’s college major may be a good predictor of whether he or she eventually becomes an entrepreneur.
A new working paper by the Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy follows the career choices of 1993 college graduates with bachelor’s degrees using data gathered by the U.S. Department of Education, and looks at four possible outcomes: self-employment, [...]
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Many employees are trained to seek the [...]
The rocky economy and fears we’re entering a long and nasty recession are leading many small-business owners to consider layoffs. Employers often view job cuts as a quick fix to financial woes.
Not so fast. There are risks and high costs to laying off employees – and it may not produce the huge cost savings you [...]
What’s the first thing small businesses cut when money gets tight? Office supplies, it seems.
AllBusiness.com on Monday is releasing results of its fourth-annual “SMB State of the Union,” a survey of 305 small and mid-sized businesses. We got a sneak peek of the results, which look at a wide swath of current issues affecting these [...]
A landscaping and lawn-care business; a candy factory; a yoga class; a smoothie store in the school cafeteria; and an online costume retailer for kids and adults.
Those were just some of the ideas presented at the National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge, held in midtown Manhattan yesterday. Some 35 students, age 18 and under, from all over [...]
Coming up with a business name that’s not already taken is difficult enough. It’s doubly difficult to find one that’s both unique and memorable – but also search-engine friendly.
Duct Tape Marketing’s blog makes an interesting point about how the search-friendliness and the ability to get a competitive domain name should be key considerations when naming [...]
It’s tempting to believe there are many extremely wealthy ex-entrepreneurs out there eager to swoop in and invest tens of thousands of dollars in your start-up — even though you’ve never met. But a new book, “Fool’s Gold? The Truth Behind Angel Investing in America” by Case Western Reserve University entrepreneurship professor Scott Shane, argues [...]