The IRS think everyone in America should be classified as an employee. They have already started sending out letters to over 6,000 businesses to let them know they will be the subject of a worker classification audit.
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Posted by: Wray Rives, June 21, 2010
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Business Overview
Online flower shops are the ecommerce component of your traditional flower shop. They are part of smaller or larger networks that take a person’s order and either facilitate the arrangement and delivery, or do it in-house. Just as food turned into something you could order online, flowers followed suit ecommerce took off.
Key Figures
Online floral [...]
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Posted by: Sarah Snyder, June 1, 2010
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Scroll down to the question at the bottom of this post to enter today's Outright Small Business Week 50/50 Challenge!
Business Overview
Ezines, commonly sent weekly or biweekly, are the stronghold of many businesses trying to get a foothold in the Internet Age. Ezines also can be a business in itself, and when executed properly, they can [...]
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Posted by: Sarah Snyder, May 24, 2010
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At one point or another we've all hired a service firm to perform a job for us. When we hire someone, there's a level of expectation that comes with it. We expect that we will pay a fee for that service and that the service will get done in a timely manner. I'm sure we [...]
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Posted by: Mark Faggiano, April 28, 2010
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While the small business community waits to enjoy the same credit card protections recently extended to individual consumers, some banks already have beat the law to the punch. In an effort to streamline operations, these companies are already following the new provisions outlined in the recently passed Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act (CARD).
Where’s the [...]
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Posted by: Sarah Snyder, April 21, 2010
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I have a friend who’s completely gung-ho about getting started as a home based business. It reminds me of a time when I was getting started (10 short months ago). The excitement, the nervousness and the sleepless nights are all too familiar.
Here are some of the questions she’s been asking, and maybe they can help [...]
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Posted by: Sarah Snyder, April 15, 2010
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Today I had the singular experience of being told I had positively affected somebody’s life. A woman I had known when I was much younger - fresh out of the Peace Corps and long before the thought of running a small business even entered my mind – recently found my profile on FaceBook. After an [...]
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Posted by: Linda Sanchez, April 13, 2010
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Film can be such a strong and evocative medium. It inspires us to think, to feel, to imagine, to emote. But can it even help us grow our small businesses? At a recent small business conference one of the speakers recommended Sunshine Cleaning as a must-see movie for entrepreneurs. The star-studded cast – Amy Adams, [...]
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Posted by: Linda Sanchez, April 7, 2010
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For entrepreneurs, being a bona fide dreamer is seldom a bad thing. See, we use synonyms for the word dreamer. One in particular—Visionary – is often bandied about, and sometimes with justifiable reason. Certainly, the Walt Disneys, George Washington Carvers, Steve Jobs, and Wangari Maathises of the world, started out with grandiose ideas, unseen in [...]
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Posted by: Akilah Richards, March 31, 2010
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One of the most common questions I get as a freelancer is “how did you do it.” Sometimes I wake up and ask myself the same question. During years of working for companies, I looked at freelancers from afar, wondering whether they were geniuses or just crazy. Now I know that it comes down to [...]
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Posted by: Sarah Snyder, March 30, 2010
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