As a follow up on our post to starting a business, where you plan to operate is a major decision to be considered immediately in your business planning. As a homebased business, you may need to lease some space for outside use to meet clients away from home.
Leasing a space has a number of challenges and finding help with the negotiations should be considered if you don't have the expertise to do it yourself; sometimes if you have the expertise, having someone to help is a good idea also.
There...
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Historically, small business starts were leading in adding new jobs to the American economy and this may still be true on a smaller scale in today's economic times.
There are a number of small businesses starting out more on the self-employed scale due to job loss and the lack thereof in the job market today.
Small Businesses need capital and in the past a home equity line of credit or business credit cards could carry the business for sometime until revenues started picking up.  Unfortunately,...
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This is an effort to recognize small businesses by American Express Saturday
November 27, 2010 and is greatly appreciated.
Smalls businesses employ a number of people in the U.S., and is also a way for individuals to support themselves during this tough time in our economy.  Again, this effort and others are appreciated to help small businesses to continue to fuel our economy with jobs.
The promotion includes giving registered card members $25.00 back when they use the card at a small business. ...
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