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Small Business Economic Indicators

When you’re a small-business owner, issues like whether you can afford to give your assistant manager a raise or whether your dinner bread will be delivered on time loom larger than the trade deficit and crop results. Yet, the nation’s employment outlook factors into your hiring decisions and the truck that delivers your bread runs […]

Fighting Economic Slump with Pro Bono Work

“Just as many laid-off workers are volunteering more to fill up their free time and enhance their resumes, small-business owners and their employees are doing more pro bono services or volunteer work as marketing and customer-relations strategy”, according to a recent Wall Street Journal article.  “For a small business that has lost clients or seen […]

Family Business – Taking the Perks Away

“Companies are slashing benefits right and left.   But it’s tougher to lose the company car or a generous dividend when your dad or your sister takes it away,”  writes Jillian Mincer in a recent Wall Street Journal article.   Small businesses in America, most of which are family-run, are now pressed to cut benefits and perks […]