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Small Business Tax Filing Tips for 2012

February 29, 2012
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Small Business Tax Filing Tips for 2012

  PRNewswire/ – Newtek Business Services, NASDAQ: NEWT, The Small Business Authority, announced today the next live radio broadcast focusing on tax preparation from “The Small Business Authority Studio” at 77WABC Radio in New York.  National listeners can also tune in at www.wabcradio.com and click listen live.  The program, The Small Business Authority Hour, will be broadcast on Saturday, March 3, 2012 at 4:00 p.m. EDT. The show is dedicated to independent business owners with a focus on taxes and tax planning with...

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Verizon Launches Entrepreneurship Training Program to Help Domestic Violence Survivors Become Small Business Owners

February 29, 2012
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Verizon Launches Entrepreneurship Training Program to Help Domestic Violence Survivors Become Small Business Owners

ALBANY, N.Y., Feb. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – In 2004, Ebony Fletcher almost lost her life to an abusive ex-boyfriend after he sat on her back and shot her in the head. She survived that ordeal but knew she needed to flee the abuse and start over. For this mother of four, that meant seeking financial independence by pursuing her dream of owning and operating a small business. In 2007, Ebbies Hair & Nail Salon, Inc. opened...

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Perks You Should Be Providing to Your Employees

February 27, 2012
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New Employees

  Just about the first thing you’ll hear from any HR person is that employee retention is imperative – to staying above the weeds for any small business. A quick look at the numbers tells you that it can cost a business upwards of 50% of an employee’s salary to replace them! Fortunately, offering perks to employees doesn’t have to mean taking a hit to the pocketbook. Following are some relatively inexpensive ideas for upping both...

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Mobile Solutions That Positively Impact Small Businesses

February 23, 2012
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Mobile Solutions That Positively Impact Small Businesses

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 23, 2012/PRNewswire/ – Small business success is essential to overall U.S. economic success.  Financial accomplishment in the small business sector requires the ability to control expense, maximize productivity and revenues, as well as keep customers happy.  Mobile technology can help accomplish every one of these objectives.To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click: http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/frostsullivan/54685/Frost & Sullivan recently published a white paper, Mobile Solutions for Today’s Small Business: The...

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Survey Shows Banks Ready to Invest in Small Business Lending

February 22, 2012
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Import & Export Business Ideas

  PRNewswire/ — As the economy has slowly started to recover, the hardest hit area has remained small business lending. A new survey from Omega Performance, however, indicates that tide is now shifting as well. Seventy-four percent of the bankers surveyed globally responded that their banks were likely to increase their small business lending. In the U.S., the number was slightly higher at 77 percent. Small business also dominated the areas banks were planning to actively...

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