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The Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council opposes a proposed health care bill that could be voted on in the U.S. House as early as Sunday. The group says the bill will not help small businesses with the high cost of health insurance but will add regulations making it difficult for them to create jobs not to mention survive and grow. The council expresses its concerns in this open letter to Read More

George Cloutier, founder of American Management Services, offers some advice for management of small to medium sized business you may or may not agree with in this conversation from The New York Times small business section. Is micromanagement a virtue? Are family employees really a bad idea? Should fear really be a management tool? (Your main one?) Are businesses that have failed due to the econ Read More

From CPA Bernard B. Kamoroff and PowerHomeBiz.com, here are seven tax tips for small and home business as you approach the filing deadline for federal income taxes. The article talks about ways to save substantially through a variety of means from making sure to write off expenses correctly and remembering to write off any damaged or unusable inventory. See the rest of the tips below. Read More

Former personal finance columnist Tiare Rath provides an extensive look here at some of the ways small businesses can reduce their health care costs. Some of these decisions might be hard ones and it is up to you to make up your mind what is necessary to address the issue in your business. See the full article in the small business information section at About.com. Read More

If you want to retain your best talent, be able to draw the best talent and increase your business all at the same time, it's possible. Entrepreneur.com reports that the key is to create an employee benefits program that rewards employees for generating more business. Follow the link for more details. Read More

David John Marotta, president of Marotta Wealth Management, talks about developing a tax plan to accomplish your small business goals. Read More

Need some help around the office at your small business? Consider hiring an extra employee here in the US and the federal government may give you a $5,000 tax credit. It's all part of a job stimulation plan unveiled by President Barack Obama recently and reported on in this article from CNN Money.com. Read More

These five year-end small business tax tips from Darrell Zahorsky, About.com small business guide, include some suggestions that are obvious and some you may not have heard of before. But all are great food for thought when considering the possibilities in filling out your small business taxes. Consider the list to determine which suggestions if any apply to your small business. Read More

There are lots of options out there and tech trends to be considered for your business no matter what the size. In the end, what you decide to use and what you believe is unimportant depends greatly on the kind of business you run, but Scott Steinberg, publisher of DigitalTrends.com, gives this overview of the useful and the maybe not so useful for businesses in general. Be ware. Scott's picks we Read More

Saying "thank you" to your employees can be a great small business employee benefit and makes financial sense as well. In this video see how Clark-Mortenson Insurance and Financial Services made this technique a great business strategy:
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