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American business, typically a reliable Republican cheerleader, is decidedly lukewarm about Senator John McCain's proposal to overhaul the health care system by revamping the tax treatment of health benefits, officials with leading trade groups say. The officials, with organizations like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable and Read More

Cause-related marketing can increase sales as much as 74% in certain consumer-goods categories, and consumers spend twice as long looking at cause-related ads than generic corporate ones, according to a study by Cone and Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. After participants were exposed to either a cause-related or a generic corporate Read More

Most companies are struggling with how to adapt to serve a new wave of consumers from the Millennial Generation (or Gen Y) - those born between 1982 and 2001 - according to a global survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit and Alcatel-Lucent company Genesys. The survey asked C-level and other senior executives from around the world how they a Read More

This is great post that details three different methods that businesses can use to utilize Facebook for market research. The best thing is that these methods are all free! Read More

An overwhelming majority of small business owners feel they've been left out in the dark in terms of having either U.S. presidential candidate address specific proposals that would assist them, a new survey shows. Read More

The congressional defeat of the proposed bailout plan by the Treasury led to one of the worst stock market days in history. The result was an elimination of trillions of dollars in shareholder wealth. The main reasoning for the rejection of the plan was that ordinary taxpayers should not have to subsidize the fat cats over on Wall Street. Read More

What's in it for you. (Hint: it's mostly about what's in it for community banks.) Read More

September 29, 2008 was quite an eye opening day and we can all admit to being anxious for what will become of the "greatest country the world." When CNN commentators are saying that we are entering a time of economic turmoil worse than that of the Great Depression, even I am starting to second guess the ways of America. It is our duty to each Read More

Throughout the day, dozens of media outlets have covered the unfortunate passing of Hollywood legend, Paul Newman, who died Friday of Cancer at age 83. While Newman is widely known for his accomplishments in film, his life as an entrepreneur and philanthropist is remarkable in its own right. In 1982, Newman and his friend, A.E. Hotchner, start Read More